Conversation hijacking phishing attacks, which involve threat actors infiltrating ongoing email threads to avert suspicion, have increased by nearly 270% last year.
U.S. critical infrastructure organizations across several industries — including government, financial services, and critical manufacturing — are being targeted by the AvosLocker ransomware-as-a-service operation.
The FBI's newly released cybercrime statistics for 2021 show that business email compromise remains far and away the largest digital crime. The numbers are not even close. Ye all eyes are on ransomware. The visibility gap is substantial.
Kronos is back online after a months-long ransomware-related outage. But a lawsuit filed against Scripps Health this week alleges employees still haven’t been paid in full for their overtime hours, disrupted by the cyberattack.
After passing cyber incident reporting legislation, lawmakers in the House and Senate turn their attention to the federal government's cybersecurity hierarchy and cloud security certification program.
A CRA Business Intelligence report points to increased concern over attacks traced to third parties: 66% saw an uptick in third-party security incidents in the last 12 months.
In speed tests of multiple binaries of multiple brands of ransomware, across different hardware and operating system configurations, a new Splunk report determined ransomware is very fast.
The Lapsus$ extortion group took issue with public statements by Okta's leadership claiming that the company was not breached. Okta's CEO acknowledged about 2.5% of their clients were potentially impacted, which would equate to about 375 of Okta's roughly 15,000 customers.
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