If a company fails to protect its critical data assets from ransomware attacks, the damage can cost millions of dollars to repair. According to IBM, the average global total cost of a data breach is $4.35 million. However, an increasing number of…

Federal officials are urging state and local government, as well as education leaders, to focus on some of the federal government's top existing resources in the fight against ransomware attacks. They are encouraged not to give in to the demands for…

According to researchers at Varonis, hard-to-control collaboration, complex SaaS permissions, and risky misconfigurations, such as admin accounts without multi-factor authentication (MFA), have left a dangerous amount of cloud data exposed to insider…

Financially motivated cyberattacks are the most concerning to IT professionals, with recent statistics indicating that nine out of ten organizations fear financially motivated attacks such as ransomware. SonicWall research, conducted in conjunction with…

Security researchers at ESET have found that detections of RDP password-guessing attacks declined from 123 billion in the first four months of the year to 13 billion in the period May-August.  The researchers stated that there was an 89% decline in…

Microsoft has updated its guidance for two zero-day vulnerabilities recently discovered in Exchange Server software. According to several security researchers who investigated the bugs known as "ProxyNotShell," the original guidance provided for the bugs…

After a network data security incident on July 26, Family Medical Center (FMC) Services notified 233,948 patients that their data was potentially compromised. FMC is a network of 75 primary care clinics in the Texas cities of Amarillo and Canyon. When…

The DCSO CyTec security researchers Johann Aydinbas and Axel Wauer discovered Maggie, a new piece of malware that has already infected more than 250 Microsoft SQL servers worldwide. The majority of infected instances are located in South Korea, India,…

Researchers demonstrated how an attacker could take control of light bulbs in the Ikea Tradfri smart lighting system, eventually turning them all the way up to full brightness. Users cannot turn them off using the app or the remote control during this…

Avast has released a decryptor for the Hades ransomware variants known as 'MafiaWare666,' 'Jcrypt,' 'RIP Lmao,' and 'BrutusptCrypt,' allowing victims to recover their files for free. According to the security firm, it discovered a flaw in the Hades…

Security researchers have disclosed information about a now-resolved security flaw in Apple's macOS operating system that could be exploited to run malicious applications in a way that circumvents Apple's security measures. The vulnerability, tracked…

According to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), more than 92,000 US adults aged 60 and up reported being victims of online scams last year. Their losses amounted to nearly $1.7 billion. In an effort to combat this problem, a research team…