Is ransomware finally on the decline? Treasury data offers cautious hope

Payments declined one-third to $734M, yet the number of victims confronting ransomware still remains a largely unchanged epidemic, sliding just 2% last year.

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Twins with hacking history charged in insider data breach affecting multiple federal agencies

Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter previously pleaded guilty to hacking into the State Department and other cybercrimes in 2015.

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Developers scramble as critical React flaw threatens major apps

The open-source code library is one of the most extensively used application frameworks. Wiz found vulnerable versions in around 39% of cloud environments.

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University of Pennsylvania joins growing pool of Oracle customers impacted by Clop attacks

The Ivy League school said it was one of almost 100 organizations hit by the simultaneous attacks in August.

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Google addresses 107 Android vulnerabilities, including two zero-days

The company’s latest security update contains the second-highest number of defects patched so far this year.

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Authorities take down Cryptomixer, seize $28M in Switzerland

The cryptocurrency mixing service helped cybercriminals launder more than $1.5 billion in Bitcoin since it began operations in 2016, Europol said.

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Crisis24 shuts down emergency notification system in wake of ransomware attack

OnSolve CodeRED was damaged by the attack and has been nonoperational since earlier this month. Dozens of agencies and their respective users have been impacted by the outage and data theft.

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Gainsight CEO downplays impact of attack that spread to Salesforce environments

Details about the attack are scattered, and discrepancies remain about the number of companies impacted and the extent to which they are compromised.

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Shai-Hulud worm returns stronger and more automated than ever before

Self-replicating malware has infected almost 500 open-source packages, exposing more than 26,000 GitHub repositories in less than 24 hours.

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Hundreds of Salesforce customers hit by yet another third-party vendor breach

The widespread compromise is strikingly similar to a previous attack that originated at Salesloft Drift.

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