The city of Lowell is alerting residents to a cyberattack that impacted the municipality’s computer systems starting early on Monday. “We realized Monday morning around 3 to 5 AM that there was a breach,” said City Manager Tom Golden.
A study conducted among CISOs worldwide from various industries sheds light on their strategies amid a challenging threat environment, identifies obstacles from business functions, and highlights their requirements for achieving success.
Scammers had lured a victim from Florida into parting with $480,000 after cultivating a long-term relationship, eventually coaxing him into making cryptocurrency investments.
To hinder the spread of CryptBot, a federal court has granted Google a temporary restraining order which allows the company to disrupt the distributors and their infrastructure.
For the past eight years, NSB has been used by bot operators to acquire limited edition and hard-to-find items from over 100 online shops. It’s considered one of the best scalping bots available on the market, with an annual price of $499.
At the end of March 2023, WithSecure caught FIN7 attacks that exploited internet-facing servers running Veeam Backup & Replication software to execute payloads on the compromised environment.
A group of teenagers and individuals in their 20s from the U.S. and the U.K are among the most prevalent threat actors today, Mandiant Consulting CTO Charles Carmakal said Monday at an off-site media briefing during the RSA Conference.
This malware is tailored to suit individual targets and exhibits a higher level of complexity, evidenced by a unique communication approach with its command-and-control (C2) infrastructure.
Cyberattackers leveraged more than 500 unique tools and tactics in 2022, according to Sophos. The data was analyzed from more than 150 Sophos Incident Response (IR) cases.
The Critical Technology Security Centers Act of 2023 introduced Tuesday by Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) would create two cybersecurity-focused offices to evaluate and test the security of critical technology used by the federal government.