Cyberattacks on governments and public entities worldwide surged by 40% from March to May compared to the previous quarter, according to researchers at the cybersecurity firm BlackBerry.

As a founding member of the Network Resilience Coalition, Cisco appreciates CISA’s shared commitment to driving focused attention and investment in efforts to secure and maintain existing critical networked technologies.

To evade detection by Play Store systems, the threat actors responsible for SharkBot have adopted the now common strategy of releasing versions with limited functionality on Google Play, concealing their apps’ suspicious nature.

The new additions to the victims’ list bring the headcount to 514 organizations and more than 36 million individuals, according to Emsisoft threat researchers. It may take months if not years for the full impact and costs to become clear.

This guidance is the latest released by the Five Eyes organization, which consists of government cybersecurity organizations from the U.S., New Zealand, the U.K., Australia and Canada.

The hack caused chaos in medical facilities in several states. In Connecticut, the emergency departments at Manchester Memorial and Rockville General hospital were closed for much of the day and patients were diverted to other nearby medical centers.

Tenable also shared proof of concept exploit code and information on the steps required to find vulnerable connector hostnames and how to craft the POST requests to interact with the unsecured API endpoints.

The assessment, which GAO began at the end of last year, also found that many State Department posts lack not only a chief information security officer, but any cybersecurity personnel whatsoever.

Potential victims who click on the provided links are redirected to phishing websites masquerading as legitimate extensions of specific NFT projects. Scammers go to great lengths to replicate the appearance and user experience of real NFT platforms.

The files and directories targeted by the malicious code could potentially contain developers’ sensitive data. Researchers speculate the packages are part of a highly-targeted attack on developers working in the cryptocurrency sector.