reader comments 25 with From the warm-and-fuzzy files comes this feel-good Friday post, chronicling this week’s takedown of two hated ransomware groups. One vanished on Tuesday, allegedly after being hacked by a group claiming allegiance to Ukraine. The other was taken out a day later thanks to an international police dragnet. The first group, calling… Read More: Feel-good story of the week: 2 ransomware gangs meet their… »
Enlarge / Gamblers and hotel guests at MGM casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, including the Bellagio, were affected by the security breach. Ethan Miller/Getty Images reader comments 74 with A cyber criminal gang proficient in impersonation and malware has been identified as the likely culprit for an attack that paralized networks at US casino… Read More: A phone call to helpdesk was likely all it took… »
Enlarge / MLS (Multiple Listing Service). Getty Images reader comments 30 with Home buyers, sellers, real estate agents, and listing websites throughout the US have been stymied for five days by a cyberattack on a California company that provides a crucial online service used to track home listings. The attack, which commenced last Wednesday, hit… Read More: Real estate markets scramble following cyberattack on listings provider »
reader comments 5 with Chipmaker TSMC said on Friday that one of its hardware suppliers experienced a “security incident” that allowed the attackers to obtain configurations and settings for some of the servers the company uses in its corporate network. The disclosure came a day after the LockBit ransomware crime syndicate listed TSMC on its… Read More: TSMC says some of its data was swept up in… »
Getty Images reader comments 10 with Organizations big and small are falling prey to the mass exploitation of a critical vulnerability in a widely used file-transfer program. The exploitation started over the Memorial Day holiday—while the critical vulnerability was still a zeroday—and continues now, some nine days later. As of Monday evening, payroll service Zellis,… Read More: Mass exploitation of critical MOVEit flaw is ransacking orgs big… »
Getty Images reader comments 83 with Share this story Security researchers are examining newly discovered Mac ransomware samples from the notorious gang LockBit, marking the first known example of a prominent ransomware group toying with macOS versions of its malware. Ransomware is a pervasive threat, but attackers typically don’t bother creating versions of their malware… Read More: Apple’s Macs have long escaped ransomware, but that may be… »
reader comments 6 with Share this story Threat actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability in an IBM file-exchange application in hacks that install ransomware on servers, security researchers have warned. The IBM Aspera Faspex is a centralized file-exchange application that large organizations use to transfer large files or large volumes of files at very high… Read More: Ransomware crooks are exploiting IBM file exchange bug with a… »
Don Farrall/Getty Images reader comments 72 with Share this story In February, attackers from the Russia-based BlackCat ransomware group hit a physician practice in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, that’s part of the Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN). At the time, LVHN said that the attack “involved” a patient photo system related to radiation oncology treatment. The… Read More: Ransomware attacks have entered a heinous new phase »
Getty Images reader comments 21 with 0 posters participating Share this story An explosion of cyberattacks is infecting servers around the world with crippling ransomware by exploiting a vulnerability that was patched two years ago, it was widely reported on Monday. The hacks exploit a flaw in ESXi, a hypervisor VMware sells to cloud hosts… Read More: Hackers are mass infecting servers worldwide by exploiting a patched… »
reader comments 24 with 0 posters participating Share this story As many as 29,000 network storage devices manufactured by Taiwan-based QNAP are vulnerable to hacks that are easy to carry out and give unauthenticated users on the Internet complete control, a security firm has warned. The vulnerability, which carries a severity rating of 9.8 out… Read More: Up to 29,000 unpatched QNAP storage devices are sitting ducks… »