A Tennessee medical clinic and surgical center is notifying more than half a million patients and employees that their personal information may have been stolen by cybercriminals in an April cyberattack that disrupted healthcare services for several days.
Over five dozen British academics joined a widening group of technology firms and privacy groups in criticizing a U.K. government bill aimed at protecting children from online harassments by weakening encryption. In an open letter, they said the bill is "doomed to fail."
Russia has relied on blunt-force cyberattacks in Ukraine to inflict maximum damage rather than turning to new techniques. In many cases, Ukrainian defenders are flying blind because Russian wiper malware is designed to evade most security controls, said Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia.
Hackers kept pace with the rapid evolution of blockchain systems, stealing about $920 million in the first half of 2023. Cybercriminals attacked smart contracts, phished victims and stole from crypto exchanges in dozens of security incidents through June 30.
Accounting statement fraud is hard to catch, typically requiring specialized anti-fraud tools and an understanding of how fraudsters think. In this second installment on accounting fraud, a panel of experts discussed the tools available and why you need fraud expertise to build an effective system.
Cyber crooks are performing server hijacking or proxyjacking to make money from the sale of their victims' compromised bandwidth on proxy networks, a new report by security firm Akamai finds. "The attacker doesn't just steal resources but also leverages the victim's unused bandwidth," it says.
Financial services organizations face unique cloud security challenges, due to special regulatory, data security and privacy considerations that don't necessarily apply to other industries. Security and payments experts with overlapping skill sets unpack the challenges and how to deal with them.
Federal regulators are once again reminding healthcare entities and their vendors of the importance of using strong multifactor authentication to help fend off hacks and other compromises, but they also warn about avoiding common mistakes with MFA.
Critical services in the Netherlands could be a potential target of ransomware and hacktivist attackers with ties to Russia as a means to sow large-scale disruptions in the country, according to a Dutch National Cyber Security Center warning this week.
The BlackCat RaaS group is developing a threat activity cluster using chosen keywords on webpages of legitimate organizations to deploy malicious malware. Trend Micro researchers discovered cybercriminals using malvertising to deploy malware using cloned webpages of WinSCP and SpyBoy.
Big banks want social media firms to take accountability for scams that occur on their payment platforms, but that doesn’t mean reimbursing victims. Banks need to take the lead in making victims whole quickly. And big tech and telcos need to kick the scammers out of their platforms.
An Iranian government-backed hacking group known as Charming Kitten has updated its malware arsenal to include an updated version of the Powerstar backdoor, also known as CharmPower, which takes advantage of a distributed file protocol to distribute customized phishing links.
The world's top chip manufacturer has dismissed the LockBit 3.0 ransomware gang's hack claim and $70 million ransom. TSMC said the data leak took place at a third-party supplier and contains only certain initial configuration files. It said customer information and operations were not affected.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has notified Congress that the information of at least 100,000 individuals has been compromised in hacking incidents at HHS contractors involving exploitation of a flaw in managed file transfer software MOVEit from Progress Software.
Cloudflare and Check Point joined Proofpoint and Microsoft atop Forrester's email security rankings, while Trend Micro, Barracuda Networks and Mimecast tumbled from the leaders category. A number of security vendors have gotten into email protection in recent years by acquiring CAPES startups.
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