The City of Oakland, a major metropolitan center in the state of California, has recently become the latest target of a ransomware attack. According to reports, a group of hackers infiltrated the city’s computer systems and managed to steal sensitive…
The White House has released a new U.S. National Cybersecurity Strategy that aims to shift the burden of defending the country’s cyberspace towards software vendors and service providers. The strategy, developed under the Biden-Harris administration. It also highlights the collaboration…
In recent years, cryptocurrencies have gained a lot of attention as an investment opportunity, with more and more people getting involved in the market. With the increasing value of cryptocurrencies, there is also an increase in cybercrime targeting these digital…
Here are the top cyberattacks from the last month that shook the world. US Marshals service falls victim to a ransomware attack On February 17, the US Marshals Service (USMS) confirmed it had suffered a ransomware attack. The agency, which…
As technology advances, cybercriminals have become increasingly sophisticated in their attacks on businesses. One of the most recent trends in cybercrime is targeting law firms with malware such as GootLoader and FakeUpdates. These attacks are especially concerning as law firms…
According to new data on T-mobile cyberattack, T-Mobile experienced more than 100 separate cybercrime incidents in 2022. It is where cybercriminal groups claim access to its internal networks. These groups phished T-Mobile employees for access to company tools and used…
After threat actors started aggressively using the ZK Java Framework remote code execution (RCE) flaw in attacks, the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added CVE-2022-36537 to its “Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.” The ZK Framework versions 9.6.1, 9.6.0.1, 9.5.1.3,…
LastPass, a popular password management service, has revealed that it was hit by a coordinated second attack in 2022. The result was LastPass data theft from its Amazon AWS cloud storage servers for over two months. The company disclosed a…
Dutch Police Arrest Three Ransomware Actors Extorting €2.5 MillionDutch police have made significant progress in the fight against ransomware. On February 27, 2023, the Amsterdam cybercrime police team came to know about this. The team then arrested three young men…
A recent research report by Menlo Security revealed that the threat actors had delivered PureCrypter malware downloader through Discord to target government entities. Discord is a community chat app used by millions of people. The threat actor used Discord to…
