Casio Faces Cyberattack: Service Disruptions and Delayed G-Shock Releases

Casio, a well-known Japanese electronics company, experienced a significant cyberattack on October 5th. The company reported that an unidentified third party illegally accessed its network, causing system failures and service disruptions. In a statement on October 8th, Casio expressed regret Read More …

British Columbia: Clients of Indigenous health authority react to ransomware attack

The First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) in British Columbia says it has concluded its investigation into a ransomware attack in May, but some clients remain concerned about the theft of their medical and personal information. The FNHA said it “uncovered Read More …

Awareness of Cyber Risks to Healthcare Organizations is not Always Translating to Adequate Protections

Despite growing awareness and widespread acknowledgment of the impact of cyber threats facing the healthcare industry, many within it are still struggling to keep them at bay. The third annual Ponemon Institute Report, commissioned by Proofpoint, found that 92% of Read More …

File hosting services misused for identity phishing

Microsoft has observed campaigns misusing legitimate file hosting services increasingly use defense evasion tactics involving files with restricted access and view-only restrictions. While these campaigns are generic and opportunistic in nature, they involve sophisticated techniques to perform social engineering, evade Read More …

Largest water utility company in the US says it was targeted by a cyberattack

American Water Works, the nation’s largest regulated water and wastewater utility company, announced Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack earlier this month, prompting it to pause billing for its millions of customers. The Camden, New Jersey-based utility company Read More …

London Fire Brigade block almost 340,000 cyber attacks

The London Fire Brigade, the fire and rescue service for the UK’s capital, has been targeted by nearly 340,000 cyber-attacks over the past year. The data was collected under the Freedom of Information Act (FOI), and analysed by the Parliament Read More …

Wreaking havoc in cyberspace: threat actors experiment with pentest tools

In recent months, adversaries have increasingly opted for the Havoc post‑exploitation framework. The tool is less popular compared to Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, and Sliver. According to BI.ZONE Threat Intelligence, this C2 framework is employed in an attempt to evade cybersecurity Read More …

Awaken Likho is awake: new techniques of an APT group

In July 2021, a campaign was launched primarily targeting Russian government agencies and industrial enterprises. Shortly after the campaign started, Kaspersky began tracking it, and published three reports in August and September 2024 through their threat research subscription on the Read More …

DHS: Cyber Cops Stopped 500 Ransomware Hacks Since 2021

A cybercrime-focused division of the US Department of Homeland Security says it has disrupted more than 500 ransomware attacks and seized billions of dollars in cryptocurrency since 2021. The ongoing effort from Homeland Security Investigations, which investigates cybercrime and illicit Read More …

About a quarter million Comcast subscribers had their data stolen from debt collector

Comcast says data on 237,703 of its customers was in fact stolen in a cyberattack on a debt collector it was using, contrary to previous assurances it was given that it was unaffected by that intrusion. That collections agency, Financial Read More …