Verizon DBIR: Basic Security Gaffes Underpin Bumper Crop of Breaches

MOVEit drove a big chunk of the increase, but human vulnerability to social engineering and failure to patch known bugs led to a doubling of breaches since 2023, said Verizon Business.

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UnitedHealth CEO Says Hackers Lurked in Network for Nine Days Before Ransomware Strike

UnitedHealth Group’s CEO Andrew Witty shares details on the damaging cyberattack in testimony before a US Congress committee set for May 1, 2024.

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Canadian Drug Chain in Temporary Lockdown Mode After Cyber Incident

London Drugs offered no details about the nature of the incident, nor when its pharmacies would be functioning normally again.

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Attackers Planted Millions of Imageless Repositories on Docker Hub

The purported metadata for each these containers had embedded links to malicious files.

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China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces

China’s brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use case: cognitive enhancement.

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Finnish Hacker Gets Prison for Accessing Thousands of Psychotherapy Records and Demanding Ransoms

In February 2023, French police arrested well-known Finnish hacker Aleksanteri Kivimäki, who was living under a false identity near Paris. He was deported to Finland. His trial ended last month.

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Docker Hub Users Targeted With Imageless, Malicious Repositories

JFrog raises an alarm after finding three large-scale malware campaigns targeting Docker Hub with imageless repositories.

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To Damage OT Systems, Hackers Tap USBs, Old Bugs & Malware

USBs have something the newest, hottest attack techniques lack: the ability to bridge air gaps.

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The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks

Thousands of planes and ships are facing GPS jamming and spoofing. Experts warn these attacks could potentially impact critical infrastructure, communication networks, and more.

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Apptega Raises $15 Million for Cybersecurity Compliance Platform

Mainsail Partners leads a $15 million financing round for end-to-end cybersecurity compliance platform company Apptega.

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