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As cyberattacks have grown increasingly destructive, nations are entertaining the idea of responding to them with conventional military forces. It is difficult to determine how serious countries are when they threaten “kinetic” responses to digital att… Continue reading Will cyber saber-rattling drive us to destruction?
In this Help Net Security video, Bill Tolson, VP of eDiscovery & Compliance at Archive360, talks about the biggest and perhaps only question in information governance right now: Is enterprise data security good enough to ensure data privacy? An Ar… Continue reading The gap between security and privacy, and what it will take to bridge it
If your organization is running VMware Horizon and Unified Access Gateway servers and you haven’t implemented the patches or workarounds to fix/mitigate the Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) in December 2021, you should threat all those sy… Continue reading Attackers still exploit Log4Shell on VMware Horizon servers, CISA warns
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA), with the help of ESET and Microsoft security experts, has thwarted a cyber attack by the Sandworm hackers, who tried to shut down electrical substations run by an energy provider in Ukraine. Ac… Continue reading Sandworm hackers tried (and failed) to disrupt Ukraine’s power grid
The US Justice Department has announced that the FBI has disrupted the Cyclops Blink botnet, which they say was under the control of the Sandworm group – a threat actor that has been previously attributed to the Main Intelligence Directorate of t… Continue reading The Cyclops Blink botnet has been disrupted
US President Joe Biden has urged companies in critical infrastructure sectors to shore up their defenses against potential cyberattacks. The warning “Most of America’s critical infrastructure is owned and operated by the private sector and critic… Continue reading US critical infrastructure operators should prepare for retaliatory cyberattacks
This Thursday morning, Russia started its invasion on Ukraine and, As predicted, the attacks in the physical world have been preceded and accompanied by cyber attacks: Renewed DDoS attacks have been launched against websites Ukrainian government agenci… Continue reading Cyber attacks on Ukraine: DDoS, new data wiper, cloned websites, and Cyclops Blink
Unknown attackers have mounted disruptive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against several Ukrainian government organizations and state-owned banks on Tuesday. The list of targets included the websites of: The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine… Continue reading DDoS attacks knock Ukrainian government, bank websites offline
In the wake of last week’s attention-grabbing defacements of many Ukrainian government websites, Microsoft researchers have revealed evidence of a malware operation targeting multiple organizations in Ukraine, deploying what seems to be ransomwar… Continue reading Ukraine: Wiper malware masquerading as ransomware hits government organizations
State-sponsored cyberattacks are on the rise and are a significant part of the future of warfare. Why would a nation send humans to a frontline when it can take out the critical infrastructure of an adversary nation from behind a computer (or millions … Continue reading Europe’s quantum communication plans: Defending against state-sponsored cyber attacks