Hamilton is currently facing a ransomware attack, causing widespread disruptions to city services for more than a week. City manager Marnie Cluckie disclosed the nature of the cyber attack during a virtual press conference on Monday, marking the first public acknowledgment of the incident since it b…
Courageous action by defenders can prevent maximum damage from attackers. Incident response firm Sygnia was contacted by a company to investigate suspect activity on its network. Sygnia rapidly concluded the company was experiencing a ransomware attack and was in imminent danger of having its entire…
Cloud security firm Sweet Security announced a $33 million Series A funding round just six months after emerging from stealth with an initial $12 million seed funding. The Tel Aviv-based cloud runtime security firm’s funding was led by Evolution Equity Partners, joined by Munich Re Ventures and Glil…
The threat actors behind the BlackCat ransomware have shut down their darknet website and likely pulled an exit scam after uploading a bogus law enforcement seizure banner.
“ALPHV/BlackCat did not get seized. They are exit scamming their affiliates,” security researcher Fabian Wosar said. “It is blatantly obvious when you check the source code of the new takedown notice.”
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The Cloud Security Alliance’s "Pandemic 11" cloud security challenges can be addressed by putting the right processes in place.
Cisco on Tuesday unveiled an open source proof-of-concept tool designed to improve visibility into backplane traffic in industrial organizations. A backplane is a piece of hardware that connects various modules and components together. In operational technology (OT) environments, for instance, backp…
On March 5, a technical failure resulted in widespread login issues across Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger platforms.Meta’s head of communications, Andy Stone, confirmed the issues on X, formerly known as Twitter, and stated that the company “resolved the issue as quickly as possi…
By examining common social engineering tactics and four of the most devious threat groups, organizations can better defend themselves.
In the dynamic realm of technology, a luminary is ascending—Phind-70B. This transformative force in coding combines speed, intelligence, and a resolute challenge to GPT-4 Turbo, promising to redefine the coding paradigm. Rooted in the robust CodeLlama-70B foundation and fortified with an additional…
BlackCat reemerged after law-enforcement disruption and executed a high-impact attack against Change Healthcare, leveraging legitimate remote-access tools to gain stealthy initial access. The group deployed a Rust-compiled ransomware binary (update.exe) that r…
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Monday revealed the actions taken to assist healthcare providers in continuing to serve patients following the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare. One of the largest healthcare technology companies in the US and a subsidiary of UnitedHealth…
The utility’s software bill of materials (SBOM) experiment aims to establish stronger supply chain security – and tighter defenses against potential cyberattacks.
SecurityWeek will host the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Risk Summit June 25-26, 2024, at the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, CA. Hosted at the stunning Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay, just 20 miles from San Francisco International Airport (SFO), this event will host some of the brightest minds in t…
Hackers stage Epic hackA group announced earlier this week that they had successfully breached Epic Games and taken 189GB of data, including user information. They are now retracting their statements, claiming that they staged the whole event to deceive real hackers.The group, which goes by the onli…
The Bank of England released news this week that the value of notes in circulation has increased by nearly 16 percent since last year as it announced the opening of a new exhibition on the future of money (who could resist a tour through the history of payment methods?) A curator at the Bank of…