Cyber-Insurance Fuels Ransomware Payment Surge
Companies relying on their cyber-insurance policies to pay off ransomware criminals are being blamed for a recent uptick in ransomware attacks.
Lindsey O'Donnell
Active Exploits Hit WordPress Sites Vulnerable to Thrive Themes Flaws
Thrive Themes has recently patched vulnerabilities in its WordPress plugins and legacy Themes – but attackers are targeting those who haven’t yet applied security updates.
Ransomware Attack Foils IoT Giant Sierra Wireless
The ransomware attack has impacted the IoT manufacturer’s production lines across multiple sites, and other internal operations.
A former IT contractor is facing jailtime after a retaliatory hack into a company’s network and wiping the majority of its employees’ Microsoft Office 365 accounts.
Derek Manky, Chief of Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs, gives insight into the surge in attacks against vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers over the last week.
The flaws could allow an attacker to access sensitive information, reboot the UR, gain privileged access, or cause a denial-of-service condition.
Attackers can leverage the critical Adobe ColdFusion flaw to launch arbitrary code execution attacks.
Researchers are reporting mass scanning for – and in-the-wild exploitation of – a critical-severity flaw in the F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ enterprise networking infrastructure.
The malicious app spreads the BlackRock malware, which steals credentials from 458 services – including Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook and Amazon.
In a new campaign, threat actors are bundling macOS malware in trojanized Apple Xcode developer projects.
