The campaign alarmed officials with its stealth and careful staging. The hackers burrowed into the code production process at SolarWinds, which makes widely used software for managing networks.
The malicious code deployed by attackers disables the hostguard service, a Huawei Cloud Linux agent process that “detects security issues, protects the system, and monitors the agent.”
Singapore unveiled a revised national plan to assume a more proactive stance in addressing threats and drive its cybersecurity posture, including a new operational technology competency framework.
BrewDog, the Scottish brewery and pub chain famous for its crowd-ownership model and the tasty IPAs, has irreversibly exposed the details of 200,000 of its shareholders and customers.
The Netherlands government said it would use its intelligence or military services to counter cyber-attacks, including ransomware attacks, that threaten its national security.
Cybercriminals see a great opportunity in healthcare. They can get up to $1,000 per stolen medical record, making protected health information (PHI) more lucrative than credit card data.
Engineering Firm Weir Group Suffers Major Ransomware Attack Resulting in Loss of Millions in Revenue
In a statement, the mining equipment firm said it had reacted quickly to the “sophisticated” attack but had been forced to delay shipments worth more than £50 million ($68 million) in revenue.
Over two-thirds of companies have been the target of a ransomware attack, with one in six claiming to have been attacked three or more times, according to a survey by Fortinet.
A number of bogus offers are doing the rounds in Discord land at the moment. Discord, a group text chat/VoiP app of choice for many gaming communities, is having a bit of trouble with phishing links.
While most ransomware actors spend time on the victim network looking for important data to steal, this group favors quick malware deployment against sensitive, high-value targets.