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Exclusive The latest figures suggest that around 1,500 medical procedures have been canceled across some of London's biggest hospitals in the four weeks since Qilin's ransomware attack hit pathology services provider Synnovis. Hanna was told on the Tuesday of that week, the day after Qilin's attack, that despite everything going on, the staff at St Thomas' hospital in London were still planning to go ahead with the skin-sparing mastectomy as previously agreed.
A new ransomware-as-a-service called Eldorado emerged in March and comes with locker variants for VMware ESXi and Windows. Eldorado is a Go-based ransomware that can encrypt both Windows and Linux platforms through two distinct variants with extensive operational similarities.
Infosec circles are awash with chatter about a vulnerability in Ghostscript some experts believe could be the cause of several major breaches in the coming months. Ghostscript is a Postscript and Adobe PDF interpreter that lets users of *nix, Windows, MacOS, and various embedded OSes and platforms view, print, and convert PDFs and image files.
Identity theft isn't just about stolen credit cards anymore. Today, cybercriminals are using advanced tactics to infiltrate organizations and cause major damage with compromised credentials. The...
French cloud computing firm OVHcloud said it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in April 2024 that reached a packet rate of 840 million packets per second...
The attack surface isn’t what it once was and it’s becoming a nightmare to protect. A constantly expanding and evolving attack surface means risk to the business has skyrocketed and current...
The malware known as GootLoader continues to be in active use by threat actors looking to deliver additional payloads to compromised hosts. "Updates to the GootLoader payload have resulted in...
Europol published a position paper today highlighting its concerns around SMS home routing - the technology that allows telcos to continue offering their services when customers visit another country. According to the cops, they pointed out that when roaming, a suspect in a criminal case who's using a SIM from another country will have all of their mobile communications processed through their home network.
Over the past six months, there has been a notable surge in Android financial threats - malware targeting victims' mobile banking funds, whether in the form of 'traditional' banking malware or, more recently, cryptostealers, according to ESET. Vidar infostealer targets Windows users. Infostealing malware can now be found impersonating generative AI tools, and new mobile malware GoldPickaxe is capable of stealing facial recognition data to create deepfake videos used by the malware's operators to authenticate fraudulent financial transactions.
The explosion of Internet of Things devices has brought about a wide range of security and privacy challenges, according to Bitdefender and NETGEAR. The report is based on global telemetry of 3.8 million homes and 50 million IoT devices that generated 9.1 billion security events over the course of 12 months. Vulnerabilities in IoT frameworks, like those found in the ThroughTek Kalay platform, expose millions of users to potential privacy breaches.