In the first half of 2024, 22,254 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) were reported, up 30 percent from last year. According to Qualys' "2024 Midyear Threat Landscape Review" just 0.91 percent of the reported CVEs were weaponized.

The cloud computing company Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses a massive neural network graph model with 3.5 billion nodes and 48 billion edges to quickly detect malicious domains crawling its infrastructure.

In an update, Electronics manufacturing services firm Keytronic revealed that a recent ransomware attack resulted in additional expenses and lost revenue totaling more than $17 million.

The "Chameleon" malware has returned with a new campaign against an international restaurant chain, with a focus on the European and Canadian regions.

INTERPOL's "global stop-payment mechanism" helped recover millions of dollars in funds defrauded in a large Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam. The move follows a mid-July 2024 BEC scam at a Singapore commodity company.

Pharmaceutical company Cencora recently confirmed in an update on July 31 that sensitive personal and health data was exfiltrated during a cyberattack in February 2024.

The Grand Palais' IT director observed unusual activity on the museum's systems on the night of August 3-4 and discovered that it was due to a ransomware attack targeting systems used to "centralize financial data" for approximately 40 museums in Franc

Between 2020 and 2023, Microsoft says it paid approximately $13 million annually through bug bounty programs. However, between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024, the amount increased to $16.6 million for the past year.

The Russian Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group "FIN7" is selling "AvNeutralizer," also known as "AuKill," on Russian-speaking hacking forums. With AvNeutralizer, hackers can tamper with security solutions and launch their own attacks.

The "Magniber" ransomware campaign is encrypting home users' devices, demanding thousand-dollar ransom payments from victims. Magniber emerged in 2017 as a successor to the "Cerber" ransomware operation.

A cyberattack on the blood bank OneBlood has impacted over 250 hospitals. While some are still able to collect, test, and distribute blood, their operations have been heavily diminished.

The Russian threat actor "Fighting Ursa," also known as "APT28," "Fancy Bear," and "Sofacy," has used car ads as a lure to distribute the "HeadLace" backdoor malware.