Last month, we shared the news with you about Pacific City Bank being ransomed. Since then, the bank has publicly disclosed the attack.

A previously unrecognized Linux malware family has been found to be targeting organizations in Southeast Asia. The threat is being tracked as FontOnLake or HCRootkit.

Japan-based tech manufacturer Olympus suffered a cyberattack on October 10. This marks their second such incident in as many months.

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.