Ponemon Institute polled 597 IT and IT security professionals to learn how COVID-19 has influenced how healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) defend patient care and patient data from increasingly virulent assaults, particularly ransomware. This study demonstrates for the first time that…
If the AirTag has been set to lost mode, the new $30 AirTag tracking device from Apple has a feature that lets anyone who finds one of these tiny location beacons scan it with a mobile phone and know its…
Akamai Technologies has purchased Guardicore to expand its cybersecurity portfolio for content delivery networks (CDNs). The agreement was made public on Wednesday. Akamai will pay about $600 million to purchase all outstanding shares under the terms of the transaction. Based…
Opportunistic threat actors were discovered actively exploiting a previously published severe security weakness in Atlassian Confluence deployments on Windows and Linux to deploy web shells that resulted in the execution of crypto miners on vulnerable systems. The vulnerability, tracked as…
A hacker claims to have obtained and leaked massive amounts of data from the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia group whose members were present at the Capitol incident on January 6. The hacker furnished the journalism and transparency collective Distributed…
According to survey data collected by an internet security company, Malwarebytes in collaboration with the nonprofits Digitunity and the Cyberfraud Support Network, black people, Indigenous people, and people of color (BIPOC) are more likely to suffer from identity theft and…
United Health Centers, situated in California, was hit by a ransomware attack that apparently impacted all of their locations and resulted in patient data theft. United Health Centers is a California-based health care company with twenty-one community health centers serving…
Regardless of how long we’ve been building software and related security and audit activities, it appears that we’re still treading water. Cybercriminals are still creating havoc, as seen by high-profile instances such as Kaseya and SolarWinds, as well as less…
Ransomware attacks can be extremely costly for businesses, and their frequency is on the rise. The ransom amount might range from thousands to millions of dollars. If the ransom is not paid or the attacker withholds the decryption key, the…
An attacker used a supply-chain assault to steal $3 million in cryptocurrency theft from the SushiSwap MISO cryptocurrency platform by infecting Sushi’s private GitHub repository. The attacker, according to analysts, was an unidentified contractor working on Sushi’s code repository. One…
