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  • "Education sector hounded by cyberattacks in 2021"
    Researchers at Check Point Software Technologies have found that education and research were the top targets for cyberattackers in 2021, with an average of 1605 attacks per organization per week, a 75% increase from 2020.  Following closely behind…
  • "Nigerian Authorities Arrest 11 Members of Prolific BEC Fraud Group"
    Nigerian authorities have arrested 11 individuals believed to be members of the business email compromise (BEC) crime ring tracked as SilverTerrier. SilverTerrier is also known as the TMT BEC gang and has been active since 2014, compromising thousands of…
  • "How Brainjacking Became a New Cybersecurity Risk in Health Care"
    Brainjacking is a growing concern among cybersecurity experts, which refers to the hijacking of connected medical devices implanted in a human's brain. The performance of this type of cyberattack involves a hacker obtaining unauthorized access to a human…
  • "Researchers Develop CAPTCHA Solver to Aid Dark Web Research"
    A team of researchers from the Universities of Arizona, Georgia, and South Florida developed a Machine Learning (ML)-based CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) solver claimed to be capable of overcoming…
  • "Log4j: Mirai Botnet Found Targeting Zyxel Networking Devices"
    Larry Cashdollar, a security researcher at Akamai Technologies, discovered an attempt to use the Log4j vulnerabilities in Zyxel networking devices to infect and help in the spread of malware used by the Mirai botnet. Zyxel is suspected of having been…
  • "US Data Breaches Surge 68% to All-Time High"
    Researchers at the Identify Theft Resource Center (ITRC) have discovered that the volume of publicly reported data compromises in the US soared 68% year-on-year to a record high of 1862.  The researchers stated that the figure was 23% higher than…
  • "Memorial Health System Confirms Data Breach"
    A cyberattack on an Ohio-based health system may have exposed the protected health information (PHI) of 216,478 patients.  Memorial Health System was hit with ransomware in the early hours of August 15, 2021.  The incident forced the health…
  • "Spyware Blitzes Compromise, Cannibalize ICS Networks"
    Researchers have discovered attackers targeting industrial enterprises with spyware campaigns aiming to steal corporate credentials for financial gain and cannibalizing compromised networks to launch additional attacks. Although the campaigns use…
  • "FBI Officially Linked the Diavol Ransomware Operation to the Infamous TrickBot Gang"
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has linked the Diavol ransomware operation to the TrickBot group, who are behind the TrickBot banking Trojan. The developers of the TrickBot banking Trojan, which has been active since October 2016, have…
  • "#COVID19 Phishing Emails Surge 500% on Omicron Concerns"
    Researchers at Barracuda Networks observed a 667% month-on-month surge in COVID-19 phishing emails from February to March 2020. The security vendor also observed another significant increase when new vaccines were released at the start of 2021. Now…
  • "Two-Fifths of Ransomware Victims Still Paying Up"
    Security researchers at Anomali Research have discovered that two-fifths (39%) of ransomware victims paid their extorters over the past three years, with the majority of the victims spending at least $100,000.  The security researchers interviewed…
  • "Red Cross Implores Hackers Not To Leak Data for 515k 'Highly Vulnerable People'"
    The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) has revealed that hackers stole personal data on nearly 515,000 "highly vulnerable people" who received aid from a program aimed at reuniting family members separated because of conflict, disaster, or…