CISA and the "Five Eyes" national intelligence agencies have issued their annual advisory on the top exploited vulnerabilities for the prior year, and its findings bolster some other recent reports that a successful attack is becoming increasingly likely to be the result of a zero-day.
Suspected Chinese hackers exploited a second SolarWinds hack to compromise the National Finance Center, which processes salaries for agencies including the FBI and the DHS.
Recent cyber attacks that have done damage to critical infrastructure could be a pretext for a "real shooting war," according to Joe Biden, as the president addressed the growing threats to national security in the cyber sphere.
Pandora cybercrime gang took responsibility for the ransomware attack on automotive supplier Denso and threatened to leak 1.4 terabytes of stolen data. Attack occurred hot on the heels of another compromise on Bridgestone.
An agreement in principle on two consumer privacy suits brought by the Texas Attorney General's office would settle the complaints for a total of $1.375 billion. The suits broadly involve surreptitious tracking of users via several methods and products in recent years, including alleged undisclosed company use of biometrics.
Cyber attack that targeted irrigation systems in Israel is thought to be part of an annual "OpIsrael," hacktivist campaign that takes place every April, and this year's attempt at least managed to cause a nuisance for some farms in the Jordan Valley.
Popular remote monitoring and management software firm AnyDesk has suffered a cyber attack that compromised its production systems and leaked source code and code signing certificates.
1.6 million unemployment claimants in Washington may have just received an identity theft headache. A hack of the State Auditor's office has exposed extremely sensitive personal information.
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.
Security researchers have discovered a network of over 3,000 GitHub accounts involved in an extensive malware distribution campaign.










