Attackers compromised the personal email of a new employee and, when the initial attack failed, attempted through socially engineered messages to get the company to pay them off.
| | | LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY | | Dragos Employee Hacked, Revealing Ransomware, Extortion Scheme Attackers compromised the personal email of a new employee and, when the initial attack failed, attempted through socially engineered messages to get the company to pay them off. Plug-and-Play Microsoft 365 Phishing Tool 'Democratizes' Attack Campaigns New "Greatness" phishing-as-a-service used in attacks targeting manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and other sectors. CISA Addresses 'Cyber Poor' Small Biz, Local Government Relatively few organizations have the resources for security programs and security professionals, so the US cyber agency is putting programs in place to help them, while striving to understand the scope of the problem itself. Multiple Ransomware Groups Adapt Babuk Code to Target ESXi VMs Two years ago, a popular ransomware-as-a-service group's source code got leaked. Now other ransomware groups are using it for their own purposes. Billy Corgan Paid Off Hacker Who Threatened to Leak New Smashing Pumpkins Songs Corgan got FBI involved to track down the cybercriminal, who had stolen from other artists as well, he said. North Korean Hackers Behind Hospital Data Breach in Seoul Data on more than 830K people exposed in the 2021 cyberattack. Startup Competition Secures ML Systems, Vulnerabilities in Automation RSA's Innovation Sandbox 2023 focused on the software supply chain, as well as attack surfaces exposed by generative AI, ML systems, and APIs. Why Economic Downturns Put Innovation at Risk & Threaten Cyber Safety Supplementing staff by hiring hackers to seek holes in a company's defense makes economic sense in a downturn. Could they be cybersecurity's unlikely heroes in a recession? MORE NEWS / MORE COMMENTARY | | |
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