Security News > 2021 > May

OwnBackup announces the hire of three top cybersecurity experts, based in Tel Aviv, Israel. These executives are known for their deep cybersecurity capabilities, and bring elite data security expertise to the OwnBackup team.

Stateless announced it has appointed software technology executive and veteran Catherine Allshouse to its board of directors. "The founders of Stateless have a disruptive vision to make hybrid and multi-cloud data workflows for the enterprise as simple as point and click," said Catherine Allshouse, Global CIO and Head of Operations, Veeva Systems.

A new ransomware gang known as 'N3TW0RM' is targeting Israeli companies in a wave of cyberattacks starting last week. Like other ransomware gangs, N3TW0RM has created a data leak site where they threaten to leak stolen files as a way to scare their victims into paying a ransom.

Scripps Health, a hospital network based in San Diego, was hit by a cyberattack over the weekend, forcing some critical-care patients to be diverted, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. Scripps acknowledged the attack in a statement but didn't specify whether it was a ransomware incident.

All defenses against Spectre side-channel attacks can now be considered broken, leaving billions of computers and other devices just as vulnerable today as they were when the hardware flaw was first announced. Published on Friday by a team of computer scientists from the University of Virginia and the University of California, San Diego, describes how all modern AMD and Intel chips with micro-op caches are vulnerable to this new line of attack, given that it breaks all defenses.

Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed a new malspam campaign distributing a fresh variant of a malware loader called "Buer" written in Rust, illustrating how adversaries are constantly honing their malware toolsets to evade analysis. "Rewriting the malware in Rust enables the threat actor to better evade existing Buer detection capabilities."

These popular banks are being spoofed in attacks targeting people filing taxes, getting stimulus checks and ordering deliveries, says Check Point.

The Alaska Court System has temporarily disconnected most of its operations from the internet after a cybersecurity threat on Saturday, including its website and removing the ability to look up court records. The threat blocked electronic court filings, disrupted online payments and prevented hearings from taking place by videoconference for several days, officials said.

Someone who knows how can obtain your phone number and email address when you try to share a file from your iPhone, say researchers at the University of Darmstadt.

This home delivery scam arrives in an SMS that lures you to a website, but then instead of stealing your data directly via the phoney website, it sweet-talks you into installing an app. Watch directly on YouTube if the video won't play here.