The personal information of more than 3000 children in daycares throughout Durham Region was stolen in a cyberattack early this year that CTV News Toronto has learned is larger than previously known.

Palo Alto disclosed that a new eCh0raix variant is now capable of encrypting both QNAP and Synology Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Therefore, researchers recommend updating device firmware as the first step of defense. Also, it is recommended to create complex passwords and limit connections to SOHO-connected devices.

A new malware named Chaos has been discovered on an underground forum claiming to be a ransomware but, an analysis by researchers suggests it is a wiper under development. It has been in development since June and could become a serious and dangerous threat for organizations in near future.

The campaign, which began in early July, uses spoofed email addresses appearing to originate with legitimate customers of the manufacturers, signaling that it was the work of Aggah, researchers noted.

The filing claims, among other things, that Huawei used BES’s Data Exchange System “to create a backdoor and obtain data important to Pakistan’s national security and to spy on Pakistani citizens.”

Arctic Wolf announced that Nick Schneider, president and chief revenue officer, has been appointed as CEO, succeeding Brian NeSmith who will serve as executive chairman of the Board of Directors.

Although ServHelper has existed since at least early 2019, we detected the use of other malware families to install it. The installation comes as a GoLang dropper, .NET dropper, or PowerShell script.

Check Point Research reports that Trickbot is the most prevalent malware for the third month running, while Snake Keylogger enters the index for the first time taking second place.

The maintainers of the JavaScript runtime environment have released a security advisory today (August 12) warning users to update to the latest version to protect against a series of bugs.

A security researcher has published this week a tool to flood Cobalt Strike servers—often used by malware gangs—with fake beacons in order to corrupt their internal databases of infected systems.