Twitter is officially beginning to roll out support for encrypted direct messages (DMs) on the platform, more than six months after its chief executive Elon Musk confirmed plans for the feature in November 2022.
The Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) warned that North Korean hackers had breached the network of one of the country’s largest hospitals, Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH), to steal sensitive medical information and personal details.
Ransomware remains one of the biggest cyber threats for private organizations and governments. However, hackers are engineering new ways to extract ransom from their victims as organizations take a conscious call to decline ransom payment demands.
Multiple threat actors have capitalized on the leak of Babuk (aka Babak or Babyk) ransomware code in September 2021 to build as many as nine different ransomware families capable of targeting VMware ESXi systems.
The number of ransomware claims filed by U.S. clients of insurance broker Marsh spiked 77% in the first quarter of the year compared with the prior three-month period, the company told CFO Dive.
While looking for activities from the usual suspects, one of our former coworkers at Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence Team discovered a new interesting lure that targeted the Eastern Ukraine region and reported that finding to the public.
Microsoft patched the modified attack – tracked as CVE-2023-29324 – during this month’s dump of fixes, rating the bug as “important” but not “critical.” Researchers from Akamai, which found and disclosed the bug, say it merits a critical rating.
Joseph James O’Connor, who also went by the online alias PlugwalkJoe, admitted to “his role in cyberstalking and multiple schemes that involve computer hacking, including the July 2020 hack of Twitter,” the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said.
Siemens has published six new advisories describing 26 vulnerabilities in Siveillance Video products, Cloud Connect 7, and more. Schneider Electric has published four new advisories that describe half a dozen vulnerabilities.
The frontman of the alternative rock band Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan, revealed that he paid a ransom after a hacker stole the band’s songs and threatened to leak them.