The Middle East region is facing a “cyber pandemic” with COVID-19 related attacks skyrocketing this year, according to the United Arab Emirates government’s top cyber security chief.
Various threat actors are on the lookout for exposed Environment (ENV) files that have been accidentally uploaded, and it is suspected that botnets are scanning these files for stored credentials.
The healthcare sector underwent major ransomware attacks this year. Ryuk itself accounted for 67.3 million attacks, with the most attacks on organizations in the healthcare sector.
Describing the incident, the school system said in a post on social media that it was attributable to a ransomware attack that “caused systemic interruption to network information systems.”
Security researchers have discovered more than 400,000 subdomains with misconfigured Canonical Name (CNAME) records, leaving many at risk of malicious takeover as a result.
Dallas, Texas-based professional services company Jacobs announced Tuesday it has acquired Reston-based cyber solutions company, The Buffalo Group. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Last week, an anonymous hacker reached out to Motherboard claiming to be able to discover the email behind anybody’s Xbox gamertag. By default email addresses linked to gamertags are private.
The college has sent out over 160,000 letters to current and former students, faculty, and applicants warning them that their data may have been compromised in a data breach back in April.
Cloud-based cybersecurity and compliance management solutions provider DefenseStorm announced that it raised $12 million in Series B funding, along with $7 million in growth capital financing.
The company said the incident involved “unauthorized access and copying of some current and former employee data, as well as limited company information regarding some business partners.”