Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for October fixes four zero-days and 81 flaws, including some for Microsoft Edge. OpenOffice and LibreOffice are each receiving three separate patches for similar issues.
Scottish engineering company Weir Group, who employs over 11,000 people in 50 countries, has disclosed that they are still fighting to fully recover from of a ransomware attack that happened in September.
At the VB2021 localhost cybersecurity conference, Hossein Jazi presented an analysis of a new threat actor dubbed LazyScripter. The cybercrime group has been using spam campaigns to distribute KOCTOPUS, a variant of their loader that deploys the Koadic and OCTOPUS remote access trojans (RATs).
Popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has disclosed that at least 6,000 customers fell victim to a phishing campaign earlier this year, resulting in funds being stolen from their accounts.
U.S. and European law enforcement agencies have arrested two ransomware operators in Ukraine, following a series of coordinated attacks against industrial groups in Europe and North America.
Japanese electronics multinational JVCKenwood and Nebaska-based information processing company Sandhills Global have both fallen victim to Conti ransomware.
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram were offline for 6 hours on Monday Oct 6, following a networking issue. Although no data was leaked or lost, the outage was both embarrassing and expensive.
Human rights organization Amnesty International recently made headlines with a report they released outlining the use of Pegasus malware against activists and journalists. This report, and public trust in the organization, are now being exploited by attackers to distribute Sarwent malware.
A new Trojan by the name of BloodyStealer is targeting Steam, GOG, Epic Games, Origin, Bethesda, and other gaming-related accounts.
New Cooperative, an Iowa-based provider of agriculture services and owner of the SOILMAP platform, was recently hit by BlackMatter ransomware. About 1 TB of data was stolen in the attack, and the cybercriminals responsible are demanding about $6 million in ransom.
GSS, one of Europe's largest customer care and call center providers, has been hit by Conti ransomware. Iconic wedding dress designer Vera Wang Group also fell victim to the group in a similar attack.
Google recently released an emergency security patch for the Chrome web browser, fixing a zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild.