The number of phishing attacks targeting enterprise mobile devices sharply increased during the first quarter of 2020, driven by the rise in remote workers amid the COVID-19 crisis, according to a...
The notorious Trickbot malware variant, frequently used prior to the deployment of ransomware and other malware, has been updated to evade detection, according to new research from Palo Alto Networks...
Arkansas-based Mat-Su Surgical Associates (MTA) is notifying 13,136 current patients and some current or former patients of Valley Surgical Associates that their protected health information was viewed...
A recent McAfee report confirms that cybercriminals have been steadily working to exploit the increase in remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic, with researchers finding that remote attacks on cloud...
The hacking group known as Sandworm, based in Russia, have been actively exploiting a vulnerability found in the Exim Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) email software, according to an alert from the National...
Cybercriminals are once again working to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic through two new phishing campaigns: Hack-for-hire groups are spoofing the World Health Organization (WHO), while other...
Forty-four percent of state health departments and state governments do not have a published Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC), making these entities much more...
The number of confirmed data breaches in the healthcare sector substantially increased last year, as external threats exceeded the number of insider-related incidents for one of the first times,...
The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center recently released an identity management framework for the healthcare sector, designed to help chief information security officers better manage...
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency are being asked how they’re defending against attempts to hack COVID-19-related research data, following...
The NetWalker ransomware threat actors – a serious threat to the healthcare sector – has ramped up its business model, transitioning into a Ransomware-as-a-Service (Raas) model in an...
The FBI, Microsoft, and others have repeatedly warned victims to not pay the ransom demands after a cyberattack for a host a reasons. And new research from Sophos confirms that ransomware payments can...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI, and the US government recently unveiled the 10 most exploited vulnerabilities from 2016 and 2019, as well...
Research facilities working on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic are being targeted by hackers tied to the People’s Republic of China, according to a joint alert from the FBI and the...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security issued an alert regarding three newly identified malware variants...
Successful ransomware attacks on the US healthcare sector are in decline with just 25 providers impacted during the first quarter of 2020, compared to a total of 764 events, or an average of 191 per...
Healthcare organizations and other essential services are again being warned that advanced persistent threat (APT) hacking groups are continuing to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic; this time to actively...
The average ransomware demand paid by organizations jumped 33 percent to nearly $112,000 between the last quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020, according to Coveware’s Q1 ransomware...
The number of brute-force attacks on remote desktop protocol (RDP) servers has drastically increased amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as a record number of employees are now working from home, according to...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation are joining the call urging COVID-19 contact tracing app developers to consider the potential privacy and security risks posed by these technologies, while warning no...
