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  • "Firms Who Pay Ransom Subsidise 10 New Attacks: Report"
    During a new study, security researchers at Trend Micro found that just 10% of ransomware victims pay their extorters, but those who do are effectively funding 6-10 new attacks.  The researchers noted that those who did decide to pay the ransom…
  • "Hackers Could Try to Take over a Military Aircraft; Can a Cyber Shuffle Stop Them?"
    Many aircraft, spacecraft, and weapons systems contain an onboard computer network referred to as military standard 1553, sometimes known as MIL-STD-1553 or just 1553. The network is a tried-and-true protocol for enabling communications between systems…
  • "61 Percent of Americans Rely on Free Antivirus Programs"
    According to a new report on the antivirus industry from Security.org, nearly three-quarters of Americans strongly believe computers require antivirus to protect their devices, and 61 percent rely on free solutions such as Microsoft Defender. The…
  • "Hacked Russian Radio Stations Broadcast Fake Air Raid Warnings"
    Radio stations in multiple Russian cities were recently hacked to broadcast fake air raid warnings. Air raid alerts were heard in Belgorod, Kazan, Novosibirsk, Penza, Magnitogorsk, Ufa, Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, Tyumen, Izhevsk, and other cities,…
  • "11 Countries Take Part in Military Cyberwarfare Exercise"
    The biggest military cyberwarfare exercise in Western Europe recently took place in Estonia.  A total of 34 teams from 11 countries took part in a live-fire cyber battle.  Countries such as the US, UK, Japan, India, Italy, Estonia, Ukraine,…
  • "Popular IBM File Transfer Tool Vulnerable to Cyberattacks, CISA Says"
    According to the US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the IBM Aspera Faspex file transfer tool, which many large organizations use, has a critical vulnerability that hackers are actively exploiting.…
  • "Salad Shortages Reported Following Ransomware Attack on Agricultural Giant Dole"
    A ransomware attack on the agricultural giant Dole forced the shutdown of production facilities in the US, resulting in salad shortages. The ransomware attack's form was not disclosed, and no ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the attack.…
  • "Microsoft Announces Automatic BEC, Ransomware Attack Disruption Capabilities"
    Microsoft announced last year that its enterprise protection suite, Microsoft 365 Defender, will include automatic attack disruption capabilities. It has now been announced that these capabilities will help companies disrupt Business Email Compromise (…
  • "Student Medical Records Exposed After LAUSD Breach"
    On February 22, the education news site The 74 Million reported that the hacker group Vice Society had posted hundreds of psychiatric evaluations of special education students in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The leaked data is said to…
  • "TELUS Investigating Leak of Stolen Source Code, Employee Data"
    TELUS, Canada's second-largest telecommunications company, is investigating a possible data breach after a threat actor released samples of what seems to be employee data online. The threat actor uploaded screenshots of the company's private source code…
  • "Even Top-Ranked Android Apps in Google Play Store Provide Misleading Data Safety Labels"
    An analysis of data safety labels for Android apps available on the Google Play Store revealed major loopholes that allow apps to present misleading or incorrect information. The Mozilla Foundation conducted the study as part of its "Privacy Not Included…
  • "Public Safety Organizations are Unprepared for Cyberattacks"
    Cyberattacks on public safety organizations have become common. However, according to a recent Verizon survey of these organizations, only a few believe they are "very prepared" for cyberattacks. This study overlaps with Resecurity research citing an…