Dallas says Royal ransomware breached its network using stolen account
The City of Dallas, Texas, said this week that the Royal ransomware attack that forced it to shut down all IT systems in May started…
Month: September 2023
90GB of Data Posted on Hacker Forum Linked to T-Mobile Glitch
Another day, another data security incident at T-Mobile – Because why not! A cybersecurity year without a T-Mobile security incident is a rare occurrence. T-Mobile…
Why This Moment In Cybersecurity Needs Hackers To Protect All Software
Originally published in Security Magazine When the pandemic hurled us into a cybersecurity crisis, there were some who held out hope that things would eventually…
Nigerian man pleads guilty to attempted $6 million BEC email heist
Kosi Goodness Simon-Ebo, a 29-year-old Nigerian national extradited from Canada to the United States last April, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering through…
Government of Bermuda links cyberattack to Russian hackers
The Government of British Overseas Territory Bermuda has linked a cyberattack affecting all its departments’ IT systems since Thursday to hackers based out of Russia.…
Satellite Images Show the Devastating Cost of Sudan’s Aerial War
Yesterday, the head of the Sudanese Army, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, asking for increased aid from…
CISA adds Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
CISA adds Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2023 US CISA added…
Recently patched Apple, Chrome zero-days exploited in spyware attacks
Security researchers with The Citizen Lab and Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed today that three zero-days patched by Apple on Thursday were abused as…
AI Will Likely Crush the B2B Services Economy
I’ve been talking to my buddy Joel Parish about AI since, well, forever (2014?), and dinner last week was more of the same. This time…
Crypto firm Nansen asks users to reset passwords after vendor breach
Ethereum blockchain analytics firm Nansen asks a subset of its users to reset passwords following a recent data breach at its authentication provider. Nansen is…
Gelsemium APT Group Uses “Rare” Backdoor in Southeast Asian Attack
Elusive APT Group ‘Gelsemium’ Emerges in Rare Southeast Asian Attack, Unveils Unique Tactics. KEY FINDINGS Gelsemium APT Resurgence: The rarely seen APT group, Gelsemium, has…
How ready does the world need to be for the quantum era?
In a post discussing how it was hardening its protocols to prevent encryption being cracked by powerful quantum computers, Signal noted that although quantum computers…