May 20, 2021 The CEO of Colonial Pipeline, Joseph Blount, told the Wall Street Journal that he gave the green light for a $4.4 million ransom to be paid to hackers because company executives were not sure what more...
May 20, 2021 "Bizarro," a new banking trojan is currently sweeping Europe and much of South America, attempting to steal financial information and crypto-wallets from consumers. While banking trojans are seen as a special type of malware used more...
May 19, 2021 Online workflow management platform, Monday.com said it found that unauthorized actors had gained access to a read-only copy of their source code after investigating the Codecov breach and its impact on the organization. In the more...
May 19, 2021 In an effort to help users change passwords that have been compromised in data breaches, Google recently introduced a new feature called "Automated Password Change," which allows users to change passwords automatically. With the new more...
May 18, 2021 In a recent forecast, research firm Gartner predicted that global spending on information security and risk management will rise to $150.4 billion this year. This is happening as companies continue to maintain remote staff while more...
May 18, 2021 Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) has ruled out any possibility of caving into hackers' demands following the ransomware attack on the country's health and social care services, which led to the shutdown of many key more...
May 17, 2021 Cloudflare, an American web infrastructure and website security company, recently announced plans to replace the "madness" of CAPTCHAs with a new way to prove that web users are human. This is done by touching or more...
May 17, 2021 A second cybercrime forum, Exploit, announced that ransomware ads will now be banned and removed. This announcement follows the Russian-language hacker forum, XSS, which permanently banned ransomware themes last week. According to the forum, which more...
May 17, 2021 Following pressure from the U.S. government to crack down on cyberattacks, many ransomware groups have announced plans to shut down or scale back operations. In its latest update, DarkSide a ransomware group accused of carrying more...
May 17, 2021 A sophisticated ransomware attack forced the authorities to shut down most of the major IT systems running Ireland's national health care service as a precaution to help secure all core services compromised during the data more...
