Cyber attack on councils across Greater Manchester leaves thousands vulnerable to phishing scam

A cyber attack on councils across Greater Manchester has left thousands of residents vulnerable to a phishing scam. The attack, which initially hit one borough last week and spread over the weekend, on software company Locata downed the housing websites Read More …

EastWind campaign: new CloudSorcerer attacks on government organizations in Russia

In late July 2024, we detected a series of ongoing targeted cyberattacks on dozens of computers at Russian government organizations and IT companies. The threat actors infected devices using phishing emails with malicious shortcut attachments. These shortcuts were used to Read More …

Musk Blames DDoS Attack For 40-Minute Delayed Start to Trump’s X Livestream

Technical difficulties delayed former President Donald Trump’s live conversation with Elon Musk on X by over 40 minutes. Musk blamed the issues on a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattack, in which a bad actor seeks to overload a target server with Read More …

FBI investigating attempts to hack Biden-Harris and Trump campaigns

Federal investigators are looking into whether Iranian hackers targeted individuals associated with the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns, three people familiar with the investigation confirmed to CBS News. The FBI launched the probes in the early summer, after both presidential campaigns Read More …

Ongoing Social Engineering Campaign Refreshes Payloads

On June 20, 2024, Rapid7 identified multiple intrusion attempts by threat actors utilizing techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) that are consistent with an ongoing social engineering campaign being tracked by Rapid7. The initial lure being utilized by the threat actors Read More …

Swiss-based Schlatter says IT network affected by cyberattack

Engineering company Schlatter Industries’ IT network was attacked with malware on Friday and it can be assumed this was a professional attack, the Switzerland-based company said on Monday. The group was hit on Friday by a cyberattack using malware, and Read More …

Security company ADT announces security breach of customer data

Electronic surveillance equipment provider ADT filed a form 8-K with the Security and Exchange Commision (SEC) to report “a cybersecurity incident during which unauthorized actors illegally accessed certain databases containing ADT customer order information.” ADT filed the 8-K on August Read More …

JG Summit Holdings probing ‘possible’ cyber attack

Gokongwei-led conglomerate JG Summit Holdings Inc. is investigating an alleged cybersecurity attack which was claimed to have affected thousands of the company’s computers. RansomHub, which was supposedly responsible for the attack, expressed frustration over being ignored by JG Summit and Read More …

Royal Ransomware Actors Rebrand as “BlackSuit”

The FBI and CISA recently published an update to the joint Cybersecurity Advisory “#StopRansomware: Royal Ransomware.” The updated advisory provides network defenders with recent and historically observed tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with BlackSuit Read More …