Microsoft, attraverso la sua divisione di sicurezza, mette in guardia da Octo Tempest, un nuovo gruppo di criminali informatici, che sembra particolarmente interessato alle informazioni finanziarie delle vittime a cui punta. Gli hacker, affiliati al gruppo BlackCat, che un anno fa ha rivendicato un attacco alla rete di Gse, il gestore italiano dei servizi energetici, ..
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SecurityWeek is publishing a weekly cybersecurity roundup that provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar. We provide a valuable summary of stories that may not warrant an entire article, but are nonetheless important for a comprehensive understanding of the cybersecurity landscape. Each week, we will curate and present ..
Zhang Hongliang, a former restaurant manager in central China, took various gigs in and outside China to support his family after losing his job during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March, a job offer to teach Chinese cooking at a restaurant led him into a cyber scam compound in Myanmar, where he was instead ordered to ..
SecurityWeek is publishing a weekly cybersecurity roundup that provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar. We provide a valuable summary of stories that may not warrant an entire article, but are nonetheless important for a comprehensive understanding of the cybersecurity landscape. Each week, we will curate and present ..
The dark web site that the RagnarLocker ransomware group used for naming and shaming victims was seized on Thursday as part of a coordinated law enforcement effort. Active since 2020, RagnarLocker has been involved in numerous attacks, with at least 52 entities across 10 critical infrastructure sectors falling victims to this ransomware family, according to ..
Fraud detection and defense startup Spec this week announced that it has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to more than $29 million. The new investment round was led by SignalFire, with additional funding from Legion Capital and Rally Ventures. Founded in 2020, the ..
Healthcare solutions giant Henry Schein recently disclosed a cybersecurity incident that disrupted some of its business operations and may have resulted in a data breach. The company revealed on October 15 that its manufacturing and distribution businesses had been hit by a cyberattack a day earlier. Henry Schein said it took some of its systems ..
Finland on Wednesday charged a hacker, accused of the theft of tens of thousands of records from psychotherapy patients, with over 21,000 counts of extortion, the national prosecutor announced. “The suspect is held on remand and has denied being guilty of the offenses,” the National Prosecution Authority said in a statement. The prosecutor is seeking ..
Malware hunters in Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) say government-backed hacking groups from different countries are feasting on a well-documented security flaw in the popular WinRAR file archiving utility more than three months after patches were released. The WinRAR code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-38831, was fixed in July after zero-day exploitation was detected but ..
Darwinium, a San Francisco startup in the fraud prevention space, has nabbed $18 million in new capital to build technology to help businesses deal with the deluge of bots, scams and online abuse. The company, which has roots in Australia, said the $18 million Series A round was led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). Darwinium’s ..
