On Friday, the city of Chicago revealed that some employee emails that were given to Jones Day “as part of an independent inquiry being conducted by the firm” were compromised in the incident.
In this campaign, attackers targeted a variety of companies in the consumer goods, process manufacturing and agriculture, real estate, discrete manufacturing, and professional services sectors.
While the regular item tracker opens the Find My website, researchers created a modified item tracker that opens a non-related URL, which could be used for phishing or anything else.
According to the research team – Sam Curry, Justin Rhinehart, Brett Buerhaus, and Maik Robert – CVE-2021-27651 is a critical-risk vulnerability in versions 8.2.1 to 8.5.2 of Pega’s Infinity software.
Criminal hackers are increasingly using brazen methods to increase pressure on law enforcement agencies to pay ransoms, including threatening to leak highly sensitive information.
More scams were taken down by the UK’s cybersecurity agency in the last year compared to the previous three years combined. Coronavirus swindles are fueling the increase.
A reported ransomware attack on the CompuGroup Medical data center partner, MedNetwoRX, has impeded some customers’ access to their Aprima electronic health record systems for more than two weeks.
The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the largest cities in the US, has been hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend that affected the city government’s network and brought down official websites.
VMware has patched another critical vulnerability reported by Positive Technologies, a Russian cybersecurity firm that was sanctioned recently by the United States of America.
An organization involved in COVID-19 research lost a week’s worth of critical data after a Ryuk attack that used a stolen password, according to Sophos who revealed the case.