Cyberattack disrupted hospitals, health care in Pennsylvania, 4 other states

Hospitals and clinics in several states on Friday began the time-consuming process of recovering from a cyberattack that disrupted their computer systems, forcing some emergency rooms to shut down and ambulances to be diverted. Many primary care services at facilities Read More …

FBI Investigating Cyber Attack Affecting Connecticut Hospitals

“Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. recently experienced a data security incident that has disrupted our operations,” said Nina Kruse, ECHN’s vice president for communications and public affairs. “Upon learning of this, we took our systems offline to protect them and launched Read More …

CISA Releases Five Industrial Control Systems Advisories

CISA released five Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on August 3, 2023. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-23-215-01 Mitsubishi Electric GOT2000 and GOT SIMPLE ICSA-23-215-02 Mitsubishi Electric GT and GOT Series Read More …

CISA, NSA, FBI, and International Partners Release Joint CSA on Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities of 2022

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and international partners are releasing a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), 2022 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities. This advisory provides details on the top Common Read More …

What’s happening in the world of crimeware: Emotet, DarkGate and LokiBot

The malware landscape keeps evolving. New families are born, while others disappear. Some families are short-lived, while others remain active for quite a long time. In order to follow this evolution, Kaspersky researchers rely both on samples that they detect Read More …

Terrorism and cyber attack warning as 25 biggest threats facing Ireland revealed

Ireland faces an increased threat from terrorism and cyber-attacks – because we spend so little money on defence, the government has admitted. This year’s national risk assessment also finds that Ireland faces 25 different potential threats – from terrorism to Read More …

Cyberattacks targeting utility firms at ‘alarmingly high levels’

Utility firms such as electricity providers have become the new frontier for cyberattacks, reaching “alarmingly high levels” last year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine gave fresh impetus to cyber criminals to attack electricity grids Read More …

Transcending Silos: Improving Collaboration Between Threat Intelligence and Cyber Risk

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) and risk management have emerged as distinct disciplines, yet they share many similarities in their mission. Both approaches inform decision-making by providing high-quality insight on the most relevant threats and risks impacting organizations. Although risk and Read More …

Midnight Blizzard conducts targeted social engineering over Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified highly targeted social engineering attacks using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Midnight Blizzard (previously tracked as NOBELIUM). This latest attack, combined with past Read More …

Sha zhu pan scam uses AI chat tool to target iPhone and Android users

Over the past two years, we have been tracking a variety of scams targeting mobile device users, generally referred to as “shā zhū pán” (杀猪盘, which translates as “butcher plate”) or “Pig Butchering.” This includes a category we labelled as Read More …