Most vulnerabilities associated with ransomware are old
Researchers identified 56 new vulnerabilities associated with ransomware threats among a total of 344 threats identified in 2022 – marking a 19% increase year-over-year. Threat actors are actively searching the internet and deep and dark web fo.....»»
Interos Resilience Watchtower enables companies to monitor vulnerabilities
Interos announced Interos Resilience Watchtower, a personalized risk technology that evolves organizations from monitoring to action. The module allows leaders to build tailored risk models that prioritize at-risk suppliers based on their materiality.....»»
Attackers are exploiting JetBrains TeamCity flaw to deliver a variety of malware
Attackers are exploiting the recently patched JetBrains TeamCity auth bypass vulnerability (CVE-2024-27198) to deliver ransomware, cryptominers and remote access trojans (RATs), according to Trend Micro researchers. The CVE-2024-27198 timeline CVE-20.....»»
Malware stands out as the fastest-growing threat of 2024
93% of IT professionals believe security threats are increasing in volume or severity, a significant rise from 47% last year, according to Thales. The number of enterprises experiencing ransomware attacks surged by over 27% in the past year. Despite.....»»
Security best practices for GRC teams
Even with the best-of-the-best tools and tech stack monitoring vulnerabilities, every security executive and GRC leader should still have some layer of paranoia. If they don’t, that’s a huge issue. In this Help Net Security video, Shrav Mehta, CE.....»»
Synopsys fAST Dynamic enables DevOps teams to fix security vulnerabilities in modern web apps
Synopsys released Synopsys fAST Dynamic, a new dynamic application security testing (DAST) offering on the Synopsys Polaris Software Integrity Platform. fAST Dynamic enables development, security, and DevOps teams to find and fix security vulnerabili.....»»
Member of LockBit ransomware group sentenced to 4 years in prison
33-year-old Canadian-Russian national pleaded guilty last month. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Charles O'Rear) A dual Canadian-Russian national has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in infecting more.....»»
Amid paralyzing ransomware attack, feds probe UnitedHealth’s HIPAA compliance
UnitedHealth said it will cooperate with the probe as it works to restore services. Enlarge (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) As health systems around the US are still grappling with an unprecedented ransomware attack on the c.....»»
PoC for critical Arcserve UDP vulnerabilities published (CVE-2024-0799, CVE-2024-0800)
Arcserve has fixed critical security vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-0799, CVE-2024-0800) in its Unified Data Protection (UDP) solution that can be chained to upload malicious files to the underlying Windows system. Tenable researchers have published a PoC.....»»
Businesses leaving their Kubernetes containers exposed to ransomware
Businesses leaving their Kubernetes containers exposed to ransomware.....»»
IT leaders think immutable data storage is an insurance policy against ransomware
IT leaders consider immutable storage as a must-have in the fight against cyberattacks, according to Scality. Ransomware threats are now understood by organizations to be inevitable. Reports show 1 in 4 organizations that pay a ransom never get their.....»»
Only 13% of medical devices support endpoint protection agents
63% of CISA-tracked Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEVs) can be found on healthcare networks, while 23% of medical devices—including imaging devices, clinical IoT devices, and surgery devices—have at least one known exploited vulnerability, acc.....»»
New Relic empowers IT and engineering teams to focus on real application security problems
New Relic launched new capabilities for New Relic IAST (Interactive Application Security Testing), including proof-of-exploit reporting for application security testing. New Relic customers can now identify exploitable vulnerabilities with an ability.....»»
The effects of law enforcement takedowns on the ransomware landscape
While the results of law enforcement action against ransomware-as-a-service operators Alphv/BlackCat and LockBit are yet to be fully realized, the August 2023 disruption of the Qakbot botnet has had one notable effect: ransomware affiliates have swit.....»»
Stanford University says data of thousands was stolen in ransomware attack
Some 27,000 people have had their data stolen, including Social Security numbers and government ID data......»»
BSAM: Open-source methodology for Bluetooth security assessment
Many wireless headsets using Bluetooth technology have vulnerabilities that may allow malicious individuals to covertly listen in on private conversations, Tarlogic Security researchers have demonstrated last week at RootedCON in Madrid. “Many.....»»
March 2024 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes critical bugs in Windows Hyper-V
On this March 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released fixes for 59 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, but – welcome news! – none of them are currently publicly known or actively exploited. Last month, though, several days after Patch Tuesda.....»»
Hackers leverage 1-day vulnerabilities to deliver custom Linux malware
A financially motivated threat actor is using known vulnerabilities to target public-facing services and deliver custom malware to unpatched Windows and Linux systems. Among the exploited vulnerabilities are also two recently discovered Ivanti Connec.....»»
Thrive Incident Response & Remediation helps organizations contain and remove threats
Thrive launched Thrive Incident Response & Remediation, an on-demand cybersecurity response service to contain and remove threats, along with engineering assistance to rebuild and restore critical systems. Phishing, ransomware and other cyberattacks.....»»
Security Bite: Hackers breach CISA, forcing the agency to take some systems offline
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says two systems were hacked in February through vulnerabilities in Ivanti products. In response, the agency had to shut down both systems, which reportedly had critical ties to U.S. infrast.....»»
macOS 14.4 brings 50+ security fixes, iOS 17.4 patch list expands to over 40
We learned with the public launch of iOS 17.4 that Apple included fixes for two exploited vulnerabilities and two other security issues. Now with the arrival of macOS 14.4, there are over 50 security patches and the list of security fixes for iOS 17......»»