According to analysis in the Acronis Mid-Year Cyberthreats Report 2023 LockBit’s known victims totaled 280 (49% of the total reviewed) and included the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), Aguas do Porto, and Wabtec Corporation.

In a new report, Sekoia analysts say that the DDoSia platform has grown significantly over the year, reaching 10,000 active members contributing firepower to the project’s DDoS attacks and 45,000 subscribers on its main Telegram channel.

There are multiple discrepancies in how the European Commission allocates funds to the cyber agency, Juhan Lepassaar, the executive director of the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, said during a Tuesday parliamentary hearing evaluating allocated budgets.

The vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2021-27610, CVE-2021-33677, CVE-2021-33684, and CVE-2023-0014, and they impact products that use the SAP Application Server for ABAP component.

According to the IIMD, the development of a National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) and the planned development of a Global Cybersecurity Forum institute in the country have both affirmed Saudi Arabia’s role in the field of cybersecurity.

U.S. Cyber Command is doubling the size of a little-known program that serves as one of the military’s chief links to private industry in order to bolster the country’s defenses against cyber threats.

The threat actor used a variety of tactics, techniques, and tools to evade detection and maintain access to the compromised networks, including deploying web shells, exploiting vulnerabilities, and attempting local privilege escalation.

Dark Power is a highly advanced ransomware strain that uses advanced encryption techniques and targets various industries globally. It stops critical system services and processes, encrypts files, and drops a ransom note with payment instructions.

A Russian network security specialist and former editor of Hacker magazine who is wanted by the US and Russia on cybercrime charges has been detained in Kazakhstan as the two governments seek his extradition.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) said in a notice sent to affected trademark applicants that their private domicile address — often their home address — inadvertently appeared in public records between February 2020 and March 2023.