The American technology company Nvidia, known for its computer graphic cards, has been compromised by Lapsus$ ransomware.

A recent report shows that 83% of all organizations ⁠— and 91% of those in the UK ⁠— were compromised by at least one phishing attack in 2021, while 78% of organizations worldwide were targeted by ransomware attacks that were initiated by email.

Expeditors, a global logistics giant and top-five freight management company by revenue, recently suffered a cyberattack. The incident appears to involve ransomware.

Storm Ylenia caused chaos in Germany last week, bringing gale-force winds that toppled trees, caused power outages, and even forced the shutdown of long-distance trains in seven of the country's states.

Google has issued an emergency update (Chrome 98.0.4758.102) for its popular Chrome browser, with fixes for seven high-severity vulnerabilities. One of these, CVE-2022-0609, has already been actively exploited in the wild, making it this year's first Chrome zero-day vulnerability.

A new joint advisory warns of the increasing threat of ransomware, stating that at least $602 million was paid to extortion gangs following ransomware attacks in 2021 — a figure that is only expected to keep rising.

An active threat campaign using the notorious Qbot trojan is stealing sensitive data in just 30 minutes, much more quickly than previously known variants of this malware.