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Ransomware Threat Just as Urgent as Terrorism, Say Two-Thirds of IT Pros Nearly two-thirds (60%) of security professionals believe the threat of ransomware should be treated with the same urgency

The FBI’s cyber division has issued an alert warning enterprises using Zoho-owned ManageEngine’s Desktop Central that advanced attackers have been exploiting a flaw to install malware since late October. Zoho

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging company boards to start asking key questions about how prepared they are to mitigate and remediate the widespread, critical Log4Shell flaw

The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) and National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) have discovered a 225 million cache of stolen emails and passwords and handed them to HaveIBeenPwned (HIBP), the

Meta Sues to Disrupt Prolific Phishing Campaign Facebook’s parent company is taking legal action again in a bid to tackle the scourge of phishing – in particular, a campaign abusing

UK Cyber Cops Share 225 Million Passwords with Breach Site UK cyber investigators have handed over 225 million stolen passwords to a popular data breach checking website, significantly expanding its

British Council Struck by Two Ransomware Attacks in Five Years A major UK public body has fallen victim to two successful ransomware attacks over the past five years, official figures

Scam Phishing Network Costs Victims $80m Per Month Researchers have uncovered a sophisticated phishing campaign estimated to cost millions of global victims around $80m per month. Security vendor Group-IB claimed

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has been hit with a cyberattack, according to cybersecurity firm Avast.  Avast did not identify the federal agency affected but The

Nurse Arrested in Hacking Investigation Detectives investigating a hacking incident at a Florida college have charged a former nurse with possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). An investigation was launched

The Belgian Ministry of Defense has confirmed a cyberattack on its networks that involved the Log4j vulnerability.  In a statement, the Defense Ministry said it discovered an attack on its computer

Cyber-Attack Impacts Aussie Companies A cyber-attack on Australian recruitment company Finite Group is impacting both companies and government agencies across the country. Finite was compromised by threat actors in October in an incident

SaaS cybersecurity company ZeroFox said on Monday that it has completed a deal to acquire digital privacy protection platform IDX and merge with special purpose acquisition company L&F Acquisition Corp.

Hackers Can Penetrate 93% of Local Networks Cyber-attackers can breach 93% of organizations’ network perimeters and gain access to their resources, according to new research from Positive Technologies. The study showed results from

Tech Companies to Protect Data on Undersea Cable American companies Google and Meta have agreed to protect data traveling on an undersea fiber-optic cable system that will connect the United

German logistics giant Hellmann has warned its customers and partners to be on the lookout for fraudulent calls and mail after the company was hit with a ransomware attack two

DeFi protocol Grim Finance said about $30 million was stolen this weekend by hackers exploiting a vulnerability in their platform.  In a statement posted to Twitter on Saturday, Grim Finance

Gig workers are being denied access to their personal data outright and are unable to challenge the outcome of automated decision-making systems Image: iStock/ Borislav “Weakly enforced” data protection laws

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (or CISA) exists and is committed to helping U.S. state, local, territorial and tribal (SLTT) governments defend against cyber risk and collaborate to build

Cryptocurrency-based scammers and cyber criminals netted a whopping $7.7 billion worth of cryptocurrency from victims in 2021, marking an 81% rise in losses compared to 2020, according to blockchain analysis

Ransomware Gang Publish Confidential Police Data on the Dark Web The Clop ransomware gang has published confidential data held by UK police on the dark web, according to reports over

Ukrainian War Games Test Electricity Grid Hundreds of Ukrainian cyber experts have taken part in a large-scale incident response exercise against the country’s energy grid as geopolitical tensions with Russian

Execs Get 16+ Years After SBA Fraud Scheme Four Indianapolis executives have been sentenced to over 16 years behind bars for their part in a 13-year fraud scheme that targeted

New Log4j Patch Released to Fix DoS Flaw Apache has released a new patch for Log4j to mitigate a high severity vulnerability, as researchers separately found a new attack vector