95% of data breaches involve human error, report reveals
Human error surpassed technological flaws as a contributing factor to data breaches in 2024, with 95% of breaches involving human…
Category: Ransomware
Brains, kill switch, parking fees, CobaltStrike, Minja, Allstate, GitHub, Josh Marpet – SWN #458
Brains, kill switch, parking fees, CobaltStrike, Minja, Allstate, GitHub, Josh Marpet – SWN #458 Source link
PowerSchool data breach preceded by months-long systems compromise
TechCrunch reports that leading U.S. education technology provider PowerSchool was discovered to have its network compromised months before being subjected to a major…
Widespread Desert Dexter attack campaign spreads custom AsyncRAT variant
Attacks exploiting Facebook and Telegram to spread a custom variant of the AsyncRAT trojan have been deployed by newly emergent threat actor…
Nearly 18K orgs’ data compromised in NTT Communications hack
TechCrunch reports that major Japanese telecommunications firm NTT Communications had information from 17,891 corporate clients exfiltrated following a cyberattack last month,…
Ransomware Attacks a Decade In: What Changed? What Didn’t? – Mike Mitchell – ESW #397
Ransomware Attacks a Decade In: What Changed? What Didn’t? – Mike Mitchell – ESW #397 Source link
Cybercriminals go old school with snail mail ransomware scheme
Fraudsters have a novel new — errr — old tactic to scam targets into paying out ransoms.The FBI via the…
Malvertising op targets almost 1M devices via malicious GitHub repos
A large malvertising campaign aimed at stealing sensitive information that leverages malicious GitHub repos affected nearly 1 million devices globally…
Qilin admits Ukrainian foreign affairs ministry breach
Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs was claimed to have been breached by the Russia-linked Qilin ransomware group, which purported to…
Global law enforcement crackdown hits Russian crypto exchange Garantex
Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange popular among ransomware operations, had its website sequestered in a joint effort by U.S. and…