Ransomware attack on Palermo city disrupted municipal services including video surveillance management, municipal police operations, online bookings, and digital communication channels.
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The FBI warned higher education institutions that cyber criminals were selling their login credentials on publicly-accessible and dark web Russian hacker forums.
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Threat actors compromised American automaker General Motors in a credential stuffing attack, accessed customers' personal information, and redeemed reward points for gift cards.
An attempted ransomware attack on SpiceJet systems disrupted flight operations leaving passengers frustrated and stranded for hours with flights canceled in some locations.
Shadow code may pose a serious supply chain risk. Sampling 4,300 websites and applications ranked by traffic, researchers discovered that each website had an average of 12 third-party scripts and three fourth-party scripts.
Research found that email was the riskiest channel for accidental data loss, accounting for 65% of data losses, ahead of cloud sharing and instant messaging platforms.
