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PowerShell used in 76% of ransomware incidents: Attacks on education sector surge

PowerShell was used in 76% of ransomware incidents in April 2023, according to new data from cybersecurity company BlackFog – a sharp reminder of the extent to which attackers are deploying legitimate tools and platforms to achieve their aims without triggering alarms from many endpoint protection platforms. PowerShell is a task

Western Digital hackers spied on incident response, taunt firm

Extortion efforts continue...

Major German IT provider Bitmarck hacked, knocking health insurance offline for millions

IT provider serves 80 German health insurers

0 of 7 Homeland Security programs had run cybersecurity risk assessments

DHS CIO office had given waivers... "a priority to improve compliance in future"

Over 200,000 unique malware samples found in 12 weeks, amid AI threat warnings

Signature-based detection is dying hard.

"Cascading" software supply chain attack now has CNI victims in EU, US

Two critical infrastructure providers in the energy sector were breached via a software supply chain attack that also hit business communications provider 3CX and its downstream customers, as well as trading companies. That’s according to cybersecurity firm Symantec this week, which said that its Threat Hunter Team had identified

VMware warns over pre-auth RCE bug in logging utility

From remote nobody to root in one deserialization bug exploit...

Job of the Week: CTO, NCSC (paying £200k+)

The klaxons have been sounded and the purse strings loosened...

Kubernetes security audit warns over 19 issues, unfixed 2019 bugs

NCC Group audit puts the spotlight on API, permissions weaknesses.

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