The flaw is caused by the lack of input validation in the Virtual SAN (vSAN) Health Check plug-in, which is enabled by default in the vCenter Server. The vulnerability has received a CVSS score of 9.8 and impacts vCenter Server 6.5, 6.7, and 7.0.

A German company that operates technology for the nation’s cooperative banks said on Friday that a cyber attack disrupting more than 800 financial institutions appeared to be easing.

Japanese multinational conglomerate Fujifilm officially confirmed that they had suffered a ransomware attack earlier this week that disrupted business operations. The attack forced the company to take down portions of its network worldwide.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a Latvian national was charged for her alleged role as a malware developer in the Trickbot transnational cybercrime organization.

TeamTNT operations have targeted and, after compromise, exfiltrated AWS credentials, targeted Kubernetes clusters, and created new malware called Black-T that integrates open source cloud-native tools to assist in their cryptojacking operations.

Once again, amid this flurry of malicious cyber activity, we must ask or answer a fundamental question about the state of our cybersecurity defense: Why does this keep happening?

Des Moines Area Community College closed Friday following a cybersecurity issue impacting its IT system. According to an update on the DMACC Facebook page, a “security incident” on Wednesday caused the school to shut down parts of its network.

ABC affiliate WFTV in Orlando, Florida, and NBC affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh, which are both owned by the Cox Media Group, were told Thursday by managers to shut down company computers and phones.

The malware’s core functionality enables operators to launch DDoS attacks, backdoor infected systems, sniff and exfiltrate network traffic, and deploy XMRig miners to mine for Monero cryptocurrency.