November 16, 2022 After the recent cyberattacks that affected millions of Australians, Australia's Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil said the government would consider paying ransoms to cyber hackers as illegal. O'Neil, Australia's Minister for Home Affairs and Cybersecurity, more...
November 16, 2022 A vulnerability has been discovered in Spotify's open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-incubated project Backstage, that could allow threat actors to execute remote code execution (RCE). The Oxeye research team discovered a way to escape more...
November 15, 2022 Google has agreed to pay US$391.5 million and to be more upfront with consumers about its privacy and data capture practices in a settlement with 40 U.S. states. The deal, announced Monday, comes after the more...
November 15, 2022 A malicious group known as "Fangxiao," which means "imitate" in Chinese, has created a vast network of more than 42,000 web domains that imitate and exploit the reputation of international, trusted brands by promising financial more...
November 15, 2022 Hackers have launched a new malicious black hat search engine optimization (SEO) campaign that compromised over 15,000 WordPress websites to redirect visitors to fake Q&A portals. Each compromised page contains approximately 20,000 files used in more...
November 14, 2022 Lessons from cyber attacks against Ukraine, and beware of attempted extortion emails. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday, November 14th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. Company and IT leaders more...
November 13, 2022 Sobeys, Canada's second-largest supermarket chain with more than 1,500 locations, has revealed that its grocery stores and pharmacies have been struggling with IT problems in the past week. The Black Basta ransomware strain reportedly attacked more...
November 13, 2022 A group of extortion scammers called Team Montesano is targeting website owners and administrators around the world. They claim to have hacked their servers and are demanding $2,500 not to release any data after sending more...
November 13, 2022 LockBit, a well-known ransomware operator that has previously claimed credit for attacks on technology giant Foxconn, British healthcare provider Advanced and IT giant Accenture, has suffered a major setback after Canadian authorities arrested one of more...
November 13, 2022 The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) recently shared information on tactics, techniques, and procedures used in Venus ransomware attacks, as well as some harm reduction recommendations that health organizations can use to strengthen their more...
