The education and research sector has experienced a surge in attacks targeting IoT devices with 131 weekly attacks per organization — more than twice the global average and a 34% increase from the year before, according to Check Point Research.

On June 27, the culprit is said to have begun moving funds amounting to $39 million through the Tornado Cash mixer service in an attempt to obscure the ill-gotten gains and make it difficult to trace the transaction trail back to the original theft.

Most recently, the developer of the ‘event-source-polyfill’ npm package has peacefully protested Russia’s “unreasonable invasion” of Ukraine, to Russian consumers by showing anti-war messages in version 1.0.26.

AhnLab found a malware threat dubbed Gh0stCringe targeting Oracle’s open-source MySQL and Microsoft’s SQL Server by abusing weak user credentials. Moreover, researchers have identified multiple malware samples—such as KingMiner and Vollgar CoinMiner—on the targeted servers. Experts say frequently patching exposed servers and using additional security layers such as firewalls further help fend off such attacks.

The top three security priorities are adding layered security for truly secure remote work, making remote work easier for end-users, and making remote work easier for admins.

Researchers unearth the first professional ransomware variant written in Rust dubbed BlackCat. It can target Windows, Linux, and VMWare ESXi systems. The threat group uses a double extortion model and looks for partners to whom it offers a huge 80%–90% ransom cut. As per claims, the author of BlackCat ransomware was previously involved with REvil […]

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has opened a cybersecurity review into Yunmanman and Huochebang, subsidiaries of companies of the New York-listed Full Truck Alliance and Boss Zhipin.

The Conti ransomware group has spent more than a year attacking organizations where IT outages can have life-threatening consequences such as hospitals, 911 dispatch carriers, emergency medical services, and law enforcement agencies.

South Korea Ransomware attacks have escalated over the past year in South Korea, crippling hospitals and shopping malls, as the coronavirus outbreak has increased Internet activity, according to Ciso.

BluBracket on Thursday said it raised $12 million in Series A funding so it can continue to work with DevSecOps teams to build security into products from the start and shift code development left.