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China's FortiGate attacks more extensive than first thought
2024-06-12 14:00

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Black Basta ransomware gang linked to Windows zero-day attacks
2024-06-12 10:00

The Black Basta ransomware operation is suspected of exploiting a Windows privilege escalation vulnerability as a zero-day before a fix was made available. A report by Symantec says that CVE-2024-26169 has been actively exploited by the Cardinal cybercrime group, the operators of the Black Basta gang, noting that there's a good chance it was leveraged as a zero-day.

Microsoft launches cybersecurity program to tackle attacks, protect rural hospitals
2024-06-12 09:51

Microsoft has unveiled a new cybersecurity program to support hospitals serving more than 60 million people living in rural America. In 2023, the healthcare sector reported more ransomware attacks than any other critical infrastructure sector and attacks involving ransomware against the healthcare sector were up nearly 130%. Cybersecurity attacks disrupt health care operations across the country and pose a direct threat to patient care and essential operations of hospitals.

Gitloker attacks abuse GitHub notifications to push malicious oAuth apps
2024-06-10 22:24

Threat actors impersonate GitHub's security and recruitment teams in phishing attacks to hijack repositories using malicious OAuth apps in an ongoing extortion campaign wiping compromised repos. Many GitHub users who have fallen victim to these attacks also report having their accounts disabled and losing access to all repos-likely after other victims reported them for being abused to push comment spam.

London hospitals face blood shortage after Synnovis ransomware attack
2024-06-10 15:43

England's NHS Blood and Transplant has issued an urgent call to O Positive and O Negative blood donors to book appointments and donate after last week's cyberattack on pathology provider Synnovis impacted multiple hospitals in London. On June 4, operations at multiple large NHS hospitals in London were disrupted by the ransomware attack that the Russian cybercrime group Qilin launched on Synnovis.

More_eggs Malware Disguised as Resumes Targets Recruiters in Phishing Attack
2024-06-10 15:24

Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a phishing attack distributing the More_eggs malware by masquerading it as a resume, a technique originally detected more than two years ago. The attack,...

Sticky Werewolf Expands Cyber Attack Targets in Russia and Belarus
2024-06-10 05:29

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a threat actor known as Sticky Werewolf that has been linked to cyber attacks targeting entities in Russia and Belarus. The phishing attacks...

DDoS attacks target EU political parties as elections begin
2024-06-08 14:12

Hacktivists are conducting DDoS attacks on European political parties that represent and promote strategies opposing their interests, according to a report by Cloudflare. Cloudflare reports that it has mitigated at least three distributed denial of service attack waves on various election-related sites in the Netherlands, as well as several political parties.

Frontier Communications: 750k people's data stolen in April attack on systems
2024-06-07 18:09

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Russian hacktivists vow mass attacks against EU elections
2024-06-07 10:29

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