Daily Cyber Brief
Trigona ransomware spotted in increasing attacks worldwide, hackers are selling access to vulnerable Fortinet networks , and Killnet gloats about DDOS attacks against Starlink and the White House...
Cybersecurity
A previously unnamed ransomware has rebranded under the name 'Trigona,' launching a new Tor negotiation site where they accept Monero as ransom payments. Trigona has been active for some time, with samples seen at the beginning of the year. However, those samples…
Like it or not, vegetables are good for us. They reduce our risk of chronic diseases and deliver the vitamins our bodies need. And yet, the CDC reports that only 10% of American adults eat enough veggies — even though they likely know they should. Companies are the same when it…
Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), the nonprofit behind Let's Encrypt, says the open certificate authority (CA) has issued its three billionth certificate this year. Let's Encrypt has been providing websites with the X.509 digital certificates needed to enable HTTPS…
Built-in protection is generally available for all devices using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, according to Microsoft. Built-in protection is a set of default security settings for Microsoft's endpoint security platform to protect devices from ransomware attacks and other…
Fortinet customers that have not yet patched a critical authentication bypass vulnerability that the vendor disclosed in October in multiple versions of its FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitch Manager technologies now have an additional reason to do so quickly. At least…
Google announced on Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against a company allegedly impersonating it through telemarketing calls and manipulating reviews of Business Profiles on Google Search and Maps. A Google spokesperson shared dozens of reports sent to them from…
A combination of maturing and emerging consumer-facing cyber threats could add to the many challenges that enterprise security teams will need to contend with in 2023. Researchers at Kaspersky, looking at how the cyber threat landscape will likely evolve over the next year…
Killnet and its band of hacker collaborators are claiming they were able to pull off a trio of symbolic distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at punishing some of the most critical supporters of Ukraine against the Russian invasion — Elon Musk's Starlink satellite…
Three vulnerabilities have been disclosed affecting operational technology (OT) products from two German companies: factory automation manufacturer Festo and automation software company CODESYS. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Forescout said two of the bugs…
Swedish furniture giant IKEA confirmed that its franchises in Kuwait and Morocco are dealing with a cyberattack that caused a disturbance on some operating systems. A spokesperson told The Record that the attack is “being investigated together with the relevant…