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  • "Ransomware's Savage Reign Continues as Attacks Increase 105 Percent"
    SonicWall released a report detailing the significant rise in ransomware, with 623.3 million attacks globally. According to the report, almost all monitored threats, cyberattacks, and malicious digital assaults, including ransomware, encrypted…
  • "High Severity WordPress Plugin Bug Hits Three Million"
    Security experts at Wordfence are urging users of a popular WordPress plugin to update immediately after a bug was found that could allow attackers to steal sensitive data and potentially even hijack vulnerable sites.  UpDraft Plus describes itself…
  • "Trickbot Targets 140,000 Victims in 14 Months"
    Security researchers at Check Point have discovered that the infamous Trickbot Trojan has targeted customers of 60 big-name brands over the past year, including Amazon, PayPal, Microsoft, Bank of America, American Express, and Wells Fargo.  The…
  • "How Picking Up Your Smartphone Could Reveal Your Identity"
    How much time an individual spends on different smartphone apps is enough to identify them in a larger group in more than one in three cases, according to researchers warning of the implications for security and privacy. The researchers analyzed…
  • "Researchers Warn of a New Golang-based Botnet Under Continuous Development"
    Cybersecurity researchers at the threat intelligence firm, ZeroFox, are warning of a new Golang-based botnet called Kraken, which is said to be under active development. According to the researchers, Kraken has a number of backdoor capabilities to steal…
  • "FBI Warns of BEC Scams Abusing Virtual Meeting Platforms"
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an alert pertaining to the growing use of virtual meeting platforms to carry out Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks and Email Account Compromise (EAC) scams. These schemes involve using social…
  • "Healthcare Data Breaches Impact 147k Illinoisans"
    The protected health information (PHI) of nearly 150,000 residents of Illinois may have been exposed in data breaches at two separate healthcare organizations. South Shore Hospital (SSH) in Chicago and the Family Christian Health Center (FCHC) in Harvey…
  • "Researchers Block "Largest Ever" Bot Attack"
    Security researchers at Imperva claim to have stopped the largest bot attack they’ve ever seen, leveraging 400,000 compromised IP addresses to scrape web data.  The researchers stated that the large-scale botnet generated 400 million requests from…
  • "COVID Tests May Leak Personal Data"
    More than 14 million PCR tests were performed in Sweden last year. Researchers at Umeå University have discovered the exposure of personal data by a private company that handles test certificates for major cities in Sweden, potentially affecting…
  • "Red Cross Attributes Server Breach to Nation-State Actor"
    The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has concluded that a nation-state hacker was behind a cyberattack on its servers discovered last month. However, The forensic report does not attribute the attack to any specific advanced persistent…
  • "AWS' AI Code Reviewer Now Spots Log4Shell-Like Bugs in Java and Python Code"
    Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its CodeGuru Reviewer tool detectors to find log injection flaws similar to the recently disclosed Log4Shell bug in the popular Java logging library Log4J. AWS' CodeGuru Reviewer is a scanner that applies…
  • "Internet Society Data Leaked"
    The personal information of tens of thousands of members of the Internet Society (ISOC) has been exposed in a data security breach.  International non-profit organization ISOC was founded in 1992 with the mission to ensure open internet development…