TRU Security

Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of 2022 has brought fixes for 96 vulnerabilities, 89 of which have been flagged as important and 7 others as critical.

A new ransomware operator by the name of Night Sky was first observed in action at the tail end of 2021. The group has already successfully struck at least two victims in Japan and Bangladesh, and has published data stolen in these attacks.

A ransomware attack against Portuguese media group Impresa has taken offline SIC, the country's largest TV channel, as well as the weekly newspaper Expresso.

A new remote access Trojan (RAT) by the name of Dark Watchman uses fileless techniques and is mainly created in JavaScript. This makes it more stealthy.

Portland, Oregon-based McMenamins brewery and hotel chain suffered a ransomware attack on December 12. The strike has been attributed to the ruthless Conti extortion gang.

The Belgian Defense Ministry and organizations running VMware vCenter Servers are being actively attacked via the Log4Shell vulnerability.

Multi-national logistics giant Hellmann Worldwide Logistics recently reported a cyberattack on their infrastructure.