Europol said that a subsequent joint investigation initiated by French and Dutch authorities intercepted and analyzed over 115 million conversations that took place over the encrypted messaging platform between no less than 60,000 users.
On Friday, a hacking group named SiegedSec took to Telegram to claim that it stole about 500,000 files from the government of the city, which has more than 935,000 residents.
A MOVEit cyberattack has exposed sensitive data on around 45 thousand New York City Public School students – as well as Department of Education staff and service providers.
Cybercriminals tend to strike highly profitable companies, those holding abundant cash, and organizations that spend generously on advertising, according to an American Enterprise Institute study of cyberattacks from January 1999 until January 2022.
Unit 42 researchers uncovered a modified version of the Mirai botnet that is actively abusing at least 22 security flaws in devices manufactured by the likes of D-Link, Arris, Zyxel, TP-Link, Tenda, Netgear, and MediaTek. The attackers aim to take control of these devices and utilize them to carry out DDoS attacks. Notably, this Mirai […]
The attack lasted for more than 10 hours and was mitigated late on Sunday, according to Activision Blizzard’s statement on Twitter. Blizzard has not yet identified the hacker group behind it and no one has yet come forward to claim responsibility.
Trigona ransomware is a relatively new family that targets compromised MSSQL servers and has been detected mainly in the technology and healthcare industries in countries such as the US, India, and Israel.
Elastic Security Labs, which is monitoring the intrusion set under the name REF9134, said the attack led to the installation of Swiftbelt, a Swift-based enumeration tool inspired by an open-source utility called SeatBelt.
The company says it has taken measures to mitigate the attack and informed the authorities of the situation. At the same time, it expects transactions with customers and suppliers to be negatively impacted until the incident is resolved.
Organizations are working to educate and train the next generation of professionals to fill critical cybersecurity vacancies, but private sector firms need to change their hiring practices to integrate this pool of talent into the workforce.