China issues report on U.S. CIA’s cyberattacks on other countries

China on Thursday released an investigation report revealing an “empire of hackers” of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States, one of the major intelligence agencies of the country’s federal government. Over a long period, the CIA has Read More …

Ransomware attack hampering Dallas police operations

A major component of the City of Dallas’ police communications system went down Monday morning, as well as some other city services. CBS News Texas’ J.D. Miles has multiple sources confirming the outage was caused by a ransomware attack against Read More …

FCA urges Capita clients to ascertain if data was compromised in cyber-attack

The City regulator has contacted Capita’s corporate clients urging them to ascertain whether their customers’ data has been compromised after a cyber-attack on the outsourcer in March. The Financial Conduct Authority said it had written to firms it regulates and Read More …

CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2023-1389 TP-Link Archer AX-21 Command Injection Vulnerability CVE-2021-45046 Apache Log4j2 Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability Read more… Source: U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Read More …

Cyber Attacks Hit in Massachusetts and South Carolina

Lowell, which is Massachusetts’ fourth largest city, discovered a cyber intrusion early last week, and its response saw many city systems taken offline. Meanwhile, Spartanburg County, S.C., was struck by ransomware, too. Spartanburg County, S.C., — a community of roughly Read More …

New LOBSHOT malware gives hackers hidden VNC access to Windows devices

A new malware known as ‘LOBSHOT’ distributed using Google ads allows threat actors to stealthily take over infected Windows devices using hVNC. Earlier this year, BleepingComputer and numerous cybersecurity researchers reported a dramatic increase in threat actors utilizing Google ads Read More …

IT giant Bitmarck shuts down customer, internal systems after cyberattack

German IT services provider Bitmarck has shut down all of its customer and internal systems, including entire datacenters in some cases, following a cyberattack. The company, one of the largest service providers for German health insurers, said no customer, patient, Read More …