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Canadian video game developer Red Barrels is warning that the development of its Outlast games will likely be delayed after the company suffered a cyberattack impacting its internal IT systems and...
Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the seizure of 107 internet domains used by state-sponsored threat actors with ties to Russia to facilitate computer fraud...
Nuclear waste processing facility Sellafield has been fined £332,500 ($440k) by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) for failing to adhere to cybersecurity standards and putting sensitive...
Not a great look when the iGiant just launched its first password manager Apple just fixed a duo of security bugs in iOS 18.0.1 and iPadOS 18.0.1, one of which might cause users' saved passwords...
Microsoft and the US Justice Department have seized over 100 domains used by Star Blizzard, a Russian nation-state threat actor. “Between January 2023 and August 2024, Microsoft observed Star...
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is a strategic framework that helps organizations continuously assess and manage cyber risk. It breaks down the complex task of managing security...
Cloudflare has revealed that it successfully mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) and lasted 65 seconds. This attack was part of a larger wave of over one hundred hyper-volumetric Layer 3/4 DDoS attacks throughout the month. Many of these attacks exceeded 2 billion packets per second (Bpps) and 3 Tbps, showcasing the increasing scale and intensity of such threats. The attacks, which have been ongoing since early September 2024, primarily targeted customers in the financial services, Internet, and telecommunications industries.Cloudflare has not attributed these attacks to any specific threat actor. However, the scale of the attacks underlines the growing sophistication of cybercriminals, who continue to exploit vulnerabilities in global digital infrastructure. The company emphasized that these hyper-volumetric attacks focus on overwhelming network layers responsible for packet transmission and reception (L3/4).
A new high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress that could enable malicious actors to execute arbitrary JavaScript code under certain conditions....
Get together with the European cybersecurity community at a two-day conference in London this December Sponsored Post This year's CyberThreat returns to London to provide a place for cybersecurity...