Cisco Talos discovered a denial-of-service bug in the Ethernet/IP server functionality of Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic. It could be exploited by sending the target a series of malicious packets.
The risk of these supply chain hacks is much higher than previously acknowledged, due to the high level of connectivity across different critical infrastructure sectors in the economy.
The Git server, a Bitbucket instance, was taken offline yesterday after the data started circulating on Monday in the form of torrent links shared on Telegram channels and hacking forums.
President-elect Joe Biden plans to pluck a career intelligence official from the National Security Agency to serve in a newly created cybersecurity role on his National Security Council.
After hacking masked credit and debit card data of crores of Juspay users, the same hacker possibly known as ‘ShinyHunters’ is now selling databases belonging to three more Indian companies.
According to court documents, the six conspirators placed credit card skimming devices on gas pumps located in Northampton County within the Eastern District of Virginia.
The UK’s vital ‘goal-line’ protection against such threats has also been well covered, especially since the creation of the UK’s innovative National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
The DDoSecrets group is also offering to privately share an additional 1.9 terabytes of data from more than a dozen other firms with selected journalists or academic researchers.
For months hackers have been poking around computer networks at U.S. government departments, Fortune 500 companies, and possibly higher education institutions and research organizations — undetected.
New research from security firm Veritas found that 86% of public sector respondents targeted with ransomware refused to pay, compared to an average of 43% across all verticals.