Ransomware hackers have continued an assault on National Health Service trusts across the United Kingdom by compromising multiple hospitals, exposing sensitive patient data, and disrupting emergency services. Inc Ransom, a prolific Russia-linked ransomware group that claimed responsibility for an attack on NHS Scotland earlier this year, now claims to have breached the Alder Hey Children’s … Read more
Nov 23, 2024Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Cryptocurrency The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Sapphire Sleet is estimated to have stolen more than $10 million worth of cryptocurrency as part of social engineering campaigns orchestrated over a six-month period. These findings come from Microsoft, which said that multiple threat activity clusters with ties to the … Read more
Nov 22, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware Threat actors with ties to Russia have been linked to a cyber espionage campaign aimed at organizations in Central Asia, East Asia, and Europe. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, which has assigned the activity cluster the name TAG-110, said it overlaps with a threat group tracked by the Computer … Read more
Malicious hackers have compromised potentially thousands of organizations by exploiting two new zero-day vulnerabilities found in widely used software made by cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks said Wednesday that they have observed a “limited set of exploitation activity” related to the two vulnerabilities in PAN-OS, the operating system that … Read more
Oct 20, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Email Security Unknown threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a now-patched security flaw in the open-source Roundcube webmail software as part of a phishing attack designed to steal user credentials. Russian cybersecurity company Positive Technologies said it discovered last month that an email was sent to an unspecified … Read more