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 ..
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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 ..
Security researchers are warning of a critical-severity vulnerability in the Royal Elementor Addons and Templates WordPress plugin that has been exploited as a zero-day for more than a month. Developed by WP Royal, the plugin helps domain admins build their websites without any coding experience. Royal Elementor has more than 200,000 active installations on the ..
UK-based cable manufacturing giant Volex (AIM: VLX) has been targeted in a cyberattack that involved unauthorized access to some of the company’s IT systems and data. In a statement issued on Monday, the power and data transmission product manufacturer said all of its sites remain operational and it does not expect any financial impact caused ..
Tens of thousands of Android devices have been shipped to end-users with backdoored firmware, according to a warning from cybersecurity vendor Human Security. As part of the global cybercriminal operation called BadBox (PDF), Human Security found a threat actor relied on supply chain compromise to infect the firmware of more than 70,000 Android smartphones, CTV ..
The US, Ukraine, and Israel remain the most frequent targets of cyberespionage and cybercrime attacks out of a total of 120 attacked countries, Microsoft says in a new report. The observed attacks, the tech giant says, were fueled by nation-state spying and influence operations, and more than 40% of the observed attacks targeted critical infrastructure ..
