A specialist music academy in Guildford, southwest of London, has confirmed that a cyberattack is responsible for knocking out its phone lines and impacting the school’s IT systems.

The company says the breach stems from a system containing customer data “relating to some online orders placed between November 2018 and October 2020” and that customers are at risk from scammers.

Despite not being the true LockBit Locker group, these micro criminals were still able to cause significant damage by encrypting a large number of internal files at SMBs in Belgium.

Security researcher Gtm Manoz from Nepal discovered in September 2022 that a system designed by Meta for confirming a phone number and email address did not have any rate-limiting protection.

Gootkit runs on an access-a-as-a-service model used by different groups to drop additional malicious payloads on compromised systems. It has been known to use fileless techniques to deliver threats such as SunCrypt, REvil, Kronos, and Cobalt Strike.

Following the posting of an alleged database of customer information on a hacker forum, Target is denying that the data being sold on the dark web is current and says that the information was not taken directly from its systems.

The CISA’s Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) will be focusing this year on beefing up security in the energy sector and leading the effort to update the National Cyber Incident Response Plan, according to the body’s planning agenda.

ProvenDB has been at the forefront of developing secure storage, leveraging blockchain technology that adds a layer of security to prevent data tampering or alteration of documents.

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released patches to address multiple security vulnerabilities in the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 9 Domain Name System (DNS) software suite that could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.