PowerSchool hacker sentenced to 4 years in prison

Matthew Lane pleaded guilty to crimes stemming from attacks on PowerSchool and a U.S. telecom company earlier this year. His sentence is half the amount prosecutors sought in the cause.

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CISA warns of imminent risk posed by thousands of F5 products in federal agencies

Cyber authorities issued their second emergency directive in three weeks. This one requires agencies to mitigate or disconnect potentially compromised F5 devices and services.

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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday fixes 175 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited zero-days

The tech giant addressed a record-high number of defects for the year in its latest update.

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Officials crack down on Southeast Asia cybercrime networks, seize $15B

The cryptocurrency seizure and sanctions targeting the Prince Group, associates and affiliated businesses mark the most extensive action taken against cybercrime operations in the region to date.

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Fortra cops to exploitation of GoAnywhere file-transfer service defect

The vendor belatedly admitted the max-severity vulnerability was actively exploited weeks after researchers and officials confirmed as much independently.

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SonicWall admits attacker accessed all customer firewall configurations stored on cloud portal

The security vendor’s customers have confronted a barrage of actively exploited defects since 2021. The brute-force attack on a company-controlled system underscores broader security pitfalls are afoot.

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Dozens of Oracle customers impacted by Clop data theft for extortion campaign

Researchers said malicious activity dates back to early July and active exploitation was observed two months ago.

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Microsoft pins GoAnywhere zero-day attacks to ransomware affiliate Storm-1175

Multiple researchers and CISA have confirmed active exploitation of the maximum-severity defect. Fortra, the company behind the file-transfer service, remains silent.

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Oracle zero-day defect amplifies panic over Clop’s data theft attack spree

The notorious ransomware group exploited multiple vulnerabilities, including a zero-day, for at least eight weeks before alleged victims received extortion demands.

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Security leaders at Okta and Zscaler share lessons from Salesloft Drift attacks

Okta thwarted the supply-chain attack with security controls it had in place. Zscaler did not. Their experiences provide insights into the root of a much broader problem.

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