Lynis is a comprehensive open-source security auditing tool for UNIX-based systems, including Linux, macOS, and BSD. Its main objective is to evaluate security measures and recommend enhancing system hardening.
A purported leak of the Moscow Clinical Research Center’s database, attributed to a threat actor, has raised concerns over data privacy and security. The MKNC, officially known as MKNC named after A.S. Loginova, stands as a prominent multidisciplinary institution within the Moscow Department of Heal…
The lawsuit alleges that disruption in claims processing caused by the cyberattack on the company’s Change Healthcare unit and ongoing IT outage is threatening to push the clinic and other providers into bankruptcy.
The LulzSec Muslims collective has recently directed its cyber warfare efforts towards Saudi ministries, executing a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at disrupting the functioning of their websites. &nbs…
Emerging reports indicate that a threat actor is actively peddling unauthorized access to a Canadian firm specializing in the design and manufacture of customized transportation equipment. Despite the company’s substantial annual revenue of $9.8 million, it appears to have fallen victim to this secu…
Double extortion demands from ransomware groups aren’t subtle: Pay us, or we’ll publish stolen internal data for all the world to see. Being listed on the group’s dark web leak sites is an intermediary step.
The DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3) reported on March 15, 2024, that it processed its 50,000th vulnerability since introducing its crowd-sourced ethical hacking scheme in November 2016.
“The account system was not compromised. What we did experience and catch was an attempt to log in to some accounts. To protect our customers we have reset some passwords which prompted the message,” said Daniel Benkwitt, a company spokesperson said.
Zero tolerance of failure by infosec professionals is unrealistic, and makes it harder for cybersecurity folk to do the essential part of their job: recovering fast from inevitable attacks, according to Gartner analysts Chris Mixter and Dennis Xu.
Fancy Bear has utilized at least 11 unique lures in campaigns targeting organizations in Argentina, Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Poland, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the United States.
A threat actor has reportedly put up for sale a database allegedly obtained from the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment Management under Vietnam’s Ministry of Health. According to the actor, the database contains approximately 257,000 user records, including fields such as ID, name, ID…
An executive order is trying to prevent the large-scale transfer of Americans’ data, as countries seek troves of U.S. data for blackmail, AI training, and analysis, among a multitude of other purposes.
U.S. authorities are concerned that this Chinese group may exploit access to Operational Technology (OT) assets to further disrupt critical infrastructure and cause disruptions during military conflicts or geopolitical tensions.
The U.S. government has yet to learn the full extent of a massive Chinese espionage campaign that targeted American critical infrastructure, according to a senior National Security Agency official.
Recently, researchers came into possession of a sample believed to represent a new evolution of LockBit: an in-development version of a platform-agnostic malware-in-testing that is different from previous versions.