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3 Ransomware Group Newcomers to Watch in 2024
The ransomware industry surged in 2023 as it saw an alarming 55.5% increase in victims worldwide, reaching a staggering 4,368 cases. Figure 1:...
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DDoS Attacks on the Environmental Services Industry Surge by 61,839% in 2023
The environmental services industry witnessed an “unprecedented surge” in HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, accounting for...
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New Findings Challenge Attribution in Denmark's Energy Sector Cyberattacks
The cyber attacks targeting the energy sector in Denmark last year may not have had the involvement of the Russia-linked Sandworm hacking group,...
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Critical RCE Vulnerability Uncovered in Juniper SRX Firewalls and EX Switches
Juniper Networks has released updates to fix a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its SRX Series firewalls and EX Series...
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Cryptominers Targeting Misconfigured Apache Hadoop and Flink with Rootkit in New Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new attack that exploits misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink to deploy cryptocurrency miners...
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Act Now: CISA Flags Active Exploitation of Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical security vulnerability impacting Microsoft SharePoint Server...
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Threat Actors Increasingly Abusing GitHub for Malicious Purposes
The ubiquity of GitHub in information technology (IT) environments has made it a lucrative choice for threat actors to host and deliver malicious...
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Mandiant's X Account Was Hacked Using Brute-Force Attack
The compromise of Mandiant's X (formerly Twitter) account last week was likely the result of a "brute-force password attack," attributing the hack...
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Chinese Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure
A pair of zero-day flaws identified in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) and Policy Secure have been chained by suspected China-linked nation-state...
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Cisco Fixes High-Risk Vulnerability Impacting Unity Connection Software
Cisco has released software updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Unity Connection that could permit an adversary to execute...
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Microsoft's January 2024 Windows Update Patches 48 New Vulnerabilities
Microsoft has addressed a total of 48 security flaws spanning its software as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for January 2024. Of the 48 bugs,...
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CISA Flags 6 Vulnerabilities - Apple, Apache, Adobe , D-Link, Joomla Under Attack
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added six security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog,...