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The global WiFi as a service market reached a value of $4.05 billion in 2021. Looking forward, the market is expected to reach $11.1 billion by 2027, exhibiting a CAGR of 17.5% during 2022-2027, according to ResearchAndMarkets.
The San Francisco 49ers were recently kneecapped by a BlackByte ransomware attack that temporarily discombobulated the NFL team's corporate IT network on the Big Buffalo Wing-Snarfing Day itself: Superbowl Sunday. Joseph Carson, chief security scientist and advisory CISO at provider of privileged access management solutions provider Delinea, suggested to Threatpost that it's likely that an affiliate hacked the 49ers, as opposed to the authors behind the ransomware, given that BlackByte is an RaaS. BlackByte recently posted some files purportedly stolen from the team on a dark web site in a file marked "2020 Invoices." The gang hasn't made its ransom demands public.
A new version of the MyloBot malware has been observed to deploy malicious payloads that are being used to send sextortion emails demanding victims to pay $2,732 in digital currency. MyloBot, first detected in 2018, is known to feature an array of sophisticated anti-debugging capabilities and propagation techniques to rope infected machines into a botnet, not to mention remove traces of other competing malware from the systems.
Kali Everything Image - An all-packages-in-one solution now available to download. Kali-Tweaks Meets SSH - Connect to old SSH servers using legacy SSH protocols and ciphers. As the first version of the new year, the Kali Team has performed a visual refresh adding new backgrounds for the desktop, login, and boot displays, and a new installer theme.
Google has released Chrome 98.0.4758.102 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, to fix a high-severity zero-day vulnerability used by threat actors in attacks. It is possible to install the update immediately simply by going into the Chrome menu > Help > About Google Chrome.
Getting to really know industrial systems means getting hands-on. That's why SANS Institute offers a range of courses focused on industrial control systems, all of which feature hands-on, highly practical exercises over five to six days.
Make sure that the site where Magento or Adobe Commerce is actually running has downloaded and applied Adobe's latest patches. Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source.
American football team the San Francisco 49ers have been hit by ransomware, with the criminals responsible claiming to have stolen corporate data and threatened to publish it. Calling itself Blackbyte, the ransomware gang responsible published samples of stolen documents on a dark web blog over the weekend, as seen by The Register.
The Security Service of Ukraine today said the country is the target of an ongoing "Wave of hybrid warfare," aiming to instill anxiety and undermine Ukrainian society's confidence in the state's ability to defend its citizens. "Ukraine is facing attempts to systemically sow panic, spread fake information and distort the real state of affairs. All this combined is nothing more than another massive wave of hybrid warfare," the SSU said.