Do cyber regulations actually make K–12 schools safer? Navigating compliance while securing school and student data

Over the last decade, K-12 schools have made great strides in employing technologies that facilitate learning--especially since the onset of pandemic-induced distance education. While students have long since returned to the classroom, digital platforms for instruction, collaboration, and homewor...

CVE-2023-26544

In the Linux kernel 6.0.8, there is a use-after-free in rununpack in fs/ntfs3/run.c, related to a difference between NTFS sector size and media sector size...

How an incident response retainer can drive proactive security

Weve written before about the importance of taking a proactive approach to cybersecurity. Whether it be threat hunting, an active defense posture or just improving security instrumentation alerts and logs an organization keeps, its best for every user -- no matter the size -- to be prepared for...

North Korean APT43 Group Uses Cybercrime to Fund Espionage Operations

A new North Korean nation-state cyber operator has been attributed to a series of campaigns orchestrated to gather strategic intelligence that aligns with Pyongyang's geopolitical interests since 2018. Google-owned Mandiant, which is tracking the activity cluster under the moniker APT43 , said th...

Bitter APT Group Targets Chinese Energy Sector with New phishing Campaign

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A new cyber espionage campaign targeting the energy sector in China by the South Asian threat group Bitter APT. The campaign involves the use of social engineering tactics through phishing emails that...

Ransomware gunning for transport sector's OT systems next

ENISA the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity has reason to believe that ransomware gangs will begin targeting transportation operational technology OT systems in the foreseeable future. This finding is further explored in the agency's 50-page report entitled ENISA Threat Landscape: Transport...

CISA to Start Issuing Early-Stage Ransomware Alerts

By Deeba Ahmed According to CISA, this new initiative will be helpful for organizations/institutions in the public health, education, and government sectors. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CISA to Start Issuing Early-Stage Ransomware Alerts...

Bad Magic APT employs new CommonMagic Framework and PowerMagic Backdoor

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary New Bad magic APT was discovered using a new backdoor called PowerMagic and a malicious framework called CommonMagic to target organizations in the administrative, agriculture, and transportation sectors...

S4x23 Review Part 3: Healthcare Cybersecurity Sessions

This article focuses on the healthcare sector. Over the past two years, the healthcare sector has been in a constant state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as widely reported in the media, it has also been threatened by cyberattacks such as ransomware...

KillNet and affiliate hacktivist groups targeting healthcare with DDoS attacks

In the last year, geopolitical tension has led to an uptick of reported cybercrime events fueled by hacktivist groups. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA published an advisory to warn organizations about these attacks and teamed with the FBI on a distributed...

Ransomware attack hits ANOTHER school

In what is likely Vice Society's handiwork, the UK's largest state boarding school Wymondham College has announced it has become the victim of a "sophisticated cyberattack". The school didn't provide additional information, but Jonathan Taylor, chief of the school's parent company Sapientia...

YoroTrooper Stealing Credentials and Information from Government and Energy Organizations

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed YoroTrooper has been targeting government, energy, and international organizations across Europe as part of a cyber espionage campaign that has been active since at least June 2022. "Information stolen from successful compromises include credentials...

YoroTrooper Stealing Credentials and Information from Government and Energy Organizations

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed YoroTrooper has been targeting government, energy, and international organizations across Europe as part of a cyber espionage campaign that has been active since at least June 2022. "Information stolen from successful compromises include credentials...

IceFire Ransomware Exploits IBM Aspera Faspex to Attack Linux-Powered Enterprise Networks

A previously known Windows-based ransomware strain known as IceFire has expanded its focus to target Linux enterprise networks belonging to several media and entertainment sector organizations across the world. The intrusions entail the exploitation of a recently disclosed deserialization...

Advanced Persistent Threat Groups Behind DDoS Attacks on Danish Hospitals

On Sunday 26 February the websites of several Danish hospitals were taken offline after being hit by Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks claimed by a group calling themselves ‘Anonymous Sudan’. According to reports on Twitter patient care was unaffected by the attacks and the sites were ba...

The vulnerability of the run_unpack() function in the fs/ntfs3/run.c component of Linux operating systems allows a attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the rununpack function in the fs/ntfs3/run.c component of Linux operating systems is related to the use of memory after it is freed during the processing of sector sizes. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and...

Hitachi Energy Gateway Station

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Hitachi Energy Equipment: Gateway Station GWS Vulnerabilities: Improper Input Validation, Classic Buffer Overflow 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could cause part of...

U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Raises Alarm Over Royal Ransomware's Deadly Capabilities

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released a new advisory about Royal ransomware, which emerged in the threat landscape last year. "After gaining access to victims' networks, Royal actors disable antivirus software and exfiltrate large amounts of data before...

Blackfly Chinese APT targets Asian conglomerate in materials sector

Threat Level Actor Report Follow Hive Pro for a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here from HiveForce Labs. Summary The Blackfly espionage group, also known as APT41, Winnti Group, or Bronze Atlas, has been targeting multiple subsidiaries of an Asian conglomerate operating in the...

APT-C-36 Strikes Again: Blind Eagle Hackers Target Key Industries in Colombia

The threat actor known as Blind Eagle has been linked to a new campaign targeting various key industries in Colombia. The activity, which was detected by the BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team on February 20, 2023, is also said to encompass Ecuador, Chile, and Spain, suggesting a slow...