Tag: security
Major hack hit NY Business Council – over 47,000 people affected, here’s how to stay safe
BCNYS suffered a cyberattack in February, and discovered it in August Sensitive personal, payment, and healthcare information, was stolen There’s no evidence of in-the-wild abuse yet The Business Council of New York State (BCNYS), an association representing businesses, chambers of commerce, and professional organizations across New York, has confirmed it…
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Top casino gaming firm Bragg says it was hit by a cyberattack – but the hackers may not have struck the jackpot
Gaming company Bragg spotted an attack on its systems recently It says no data was stolen, and no encryptor deployed No threat actors claimed responsibility yet Bragg Gaming Group, a Canadian company which provides casinos with software, games, and backend platforms, has confirmed it recently suffered a cyberattack, but fortunately…
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Millions of dollars in cryptocurrency has been confiscated as the DoJ cracks down on an infamous ransomware operator
Millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency has been seized by the DoJ The wallet belongs to a suspected ransomware operator The ransomware, Zeppelin, is functionally extinct The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced a cryptocurrency wallet containing over $2.8 million has been seized following charges of conspiring to commit…
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Are they brave or stupid? Malware targeting Russian crypto hackers found
Researchers uncover two packages carrying an infostealer The victims are apparently Russian, and attackers American This prompted the researchers to speculate if the targets were Russian crypto hackers Two malicious packages were recently discovered on the npm package manager platform targeting software developers on the Solana ecosystem. However the discovery,…
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A shocking amount of companies are knowingly shipping insecure code – and it might be hard to recover
Four in five companies knowingly ship vulnerable code, survey warns One-third say 60% of their code is now AI-generated Orgs need to use AI to identify vulnerabilities A study of 1,500 CISOs, AppSec Managers and developers conducted by Checkmarx has claimed four in five (81%) companies knowingly ship vulnerable code,…
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Colt forced to take services offline following apparent cyberattack
Colt Technology Services pulls services offline, confirms this was due to a cyberattack A ransomware group called WarLock claimed responsibility Independent researchers believe the attackers struck the company’s SharePoint servers Colt Technology Services has suffered a cyberattack which forced it to pull parts of its IT network offline for several…
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