Highgate Wood School in Crouch End will now begin accepting pupils on September 11 rather than September 5 as originally intended. The secondary school, which serves local students aged 11–16, appears to have escaped the worst of the attack.
This new variant, primarily targeting logistics and financial sectors, has undergone significant changes, including being rewritten in Python, enhanced communication protocols, and new modules.
Some of the malware families employed by Andariel in its attacks include Gh0st RAT, DTrack, YamaBot, NukeSped, Rifdoor, Phandoor, Andarat, Andaratm, TigerRAT (and its successor MagicRAT), and EarlyRAT.
About 650,000 customers have been impacted. The information exposed included personal data, health information, condition details, financial information, contact details, Social Security numbers, and insurance details.
The contests mirror legitimate security conference ‘Call For Papers’ and provide the winners considerable financial rewards, recognition from peers, and also, potential jobs.
Chief audit executives (CAEs) have identified risk orientation, stakeholder management, and team leadership as the top three characteristics of the most effective individuals, according to Gartner.
EternalBlue exploits a vulnerability in the Microsoft implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol. This dupes an unpatched Windows machine into allowing illegitimate data packets into the legitimate network.
The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) announced today that an ongoing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has been impacting its website since Friday.
An Iranian-focused hacking group known as Black Reward, with a history of going after the Iranian government, announced a new attack late Thursday, this time targeting a financial services app used by millions of Iranians for digital transactions.
The compromised data also contains sensitive information about doctors, including their PII, login credentials, usernames, passwords, and phone numbers. The data breach was initiated by a threat actor named “Tanaka”.