Criminals behind the potent REvil ransomware have ported the malware to Linux for targeted attacks.
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Why Healthcare Keeps Falling Prey to Ransomware and Other Cyberattacks
Nate Warfield, CTO of Prevailion and former Microsoft security researcher, discusses the many security challenges and failings plaguing this industry.
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Widespread Brute-Force Attacks Tied to Russia’s APT28
The ongoing attacks are targeting cloud services such as Office 365 to steal passwords and password-spray a vast range of targets, including in U.S. and European governments and military.
TrickBot Spruces Up Its Banking Trojan Module
After focusing almost exclusively on delivering ransomware for the past year, the code changes could indicate that TrickBot is getting back into the bank-fraud game.
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CISA Offers New Mitigation for PrintNightmare Bug
CERT urges administrators to disable the Windows Print spooler service in Domain Controllers and systems that don’t print, while Microsoft attempts to clarify RCE flaw with a new CVE assignment.
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Solar Winds Hackers Continue To Cause Grief
If bad actors socially engineered all the support teams around the world, they could get a lot more people clicking on emails and mobile phones authorized which they could use to gain access to infras…
LinkedIn’s 1.2B Data-Scrape Victims Already Being Targeted by Attackers
A refined database of 88K U.S. business owners on LinkedIn has been posted in a hacker forum.
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Data Exfiltration: What You Should Know to Prevent It
Data leaks are a serious concern for companies of all sizes; if one occurs, it may put them out of business permanently. Here’s how you can protect your organization from data theft.
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Users Clueless About Cybersecurity Risks: Study
The return to offices, coupled with uninformed users (including IT pros) has teed up an unprecedented risk of enterprise attack.
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The Pros and Cons of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
Privacy Enhancing Technologies are tools designed to enable data value extraction in order to unleash its full commercial, scientific and social potential – they just do so in a way that preserves dat…

