WordFence discovered over 13.7 million cyber attacks targeting four vulnerable plugins and 15 Epsilon framework themes in 36 hours hitting 1.6 million WordPress websites.
The REvil ransomware gang has been a point of special focus for international law enforcement and possibly been dealt a fatal blow as Russian authorities have rounded up 14 members residing in the country.
App Tracking Transparency has faced some level of antitrust controversy from the beginning for excluding Apple's own pre-installed apps and handling them with special conditions.
Report from Momentum Cyber finds that the first half of 2021 was the busiest on record for the cybersecurity market in terms of investment and strategic activity. The torrid pace has been indirectly driven by the massive spike in ransomware attacks.
Hackers used data from 2015 Ashley Madison data breach to conduct cyber extortion scams, asking users to pay more than $1,000 worth of Bitcoin.
California’s 2018 net neutrality law will now be enforced after a challenge by the state's biggest internet providers was shot down by an Eastern District of California judge.
Recent cloud security survey shows that even though businesses have increased their awareness on security threats, 19% still experienced a data breach, with account hijacking being the top attack method.
Theft of LastPass’s decrypted password vaults has been tracked to a DevOps engineer. Attackers reportedly targeted a vulnerability in a media software package on the employee's home computer.
The attack has been attributed to an older remote access trojan that was able to take out 49% of the modems from the ISP's ASN, in what is believed to be a targeted cyber attack intended to cause a prolonged outage of internet routers.
Clorox reported a total of $49 million in incremental expenses related to the attack, with Johnson Controls reporting data breach costs of nearly $27 million. This money went to remediation costs such as third party contracting, as well as added operating costs due to disruptions.
