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The threat actors behind the Rhysida ransomware engage in opportunistic attacks targeting organizations spanning various industry sectors. The advisory comes courtesy of the U.S. Cybersecurity and...
The FBI and CISA warned today of Rhysida ransomware gang's opportunistic attacks targeting organizations across multiple industry sectors. "Threat actors leveraging Rhysida ransomware are known to impact 'targets of opportunity,' including victims in the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors," the two agencies noted.
FBI director Christopher Wray made yet another impassioned plea to US lawmakers to kill a proposed warrant requirement for so-called "US person queries" of data collected via the Feds' favorite snooping tool, FISA Section 702. As the deadline draws near, and reform looms, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies are pulling out all the stops to convince lawmakers to greenlight Section 702 without making any changes to the spying tool - and especially without any warrant requirements.
The FBI and CISA revealed in a joint advisory that the Royal ransomware gang has breached the networks of at least 350 organizations worldwide since September 2022. [...]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning that ransomware threat actors are targeting casino servers and use legitimate system management tools to increase their permissions on the network. [...]
18 months in the slammer no laughing matter, but the rest... maybe A 34-year-old woman has been jailed for 18 months after trying to use Rentahitman.com – no, really – to pay a contract killer to...
Of course, he would say that, wouldn't he? As the expiration date for the Feds' Section 702 surveillance powers draws closer, FBI Director Christopher Wray has warned a US Senate committee that...
The FBI warns that cybercriminals are using spoofed emails and phone numbers to target plastic surgery offices across the United States for extortion in phishing attacks that spread malware. "Cybercriminals use open-source information, to include social media, and social engineering techniques to enhance the harvested ePHI data of plastic surgery patients," the FBI said.
CISA, FBI, and MS-ISAC warned network admins today to immediately patch their Atlassian Confluence servers against a maximum severity flaw actively exploited in attacks. On October 4, when it released security updates, Atlassian advised customers to upgrade their Confluence instances as soon as possible to one of the fixed versions as the bug was already exploited in the wild as a zero-day.
The AvosLocker ransomware gang has been linked to attacks against critical infrastructure sectors in the U.S., with some of them detected as recently as May 2023. That's according to a new joint...