A recent survey reveals that ransomware attacks are causing UK businesses to increase prices, leading to high inflation, with large organizations raising costs to customers by an average of 17% and 78% of businesses reducing staff numbers following an attack.
WordPress version 6.4.2 has been released to fix a security flaw that could allow threat actors to execute arbitrary PHP code on vulnerable sites, posing a high severity risk when combined with certain plugins, particularly in multisite installations.
Security flaws known as 5Ghoul have been discovered in the firmware of 5G modems, impacting USB and IoT modems, as well as numerous smartphone models running Android and iOS.
The increasing trend of holding Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) personally liable for security failures is discouraging security professionals from assuming these roles and potentially hindering the overall effectiveness of cybersecurity efforts.
COLDRIVER, a threat actor associated with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), has been involved in credential theft activities since 2017, continuously enhancing their detection evasion capabilities and employing tactics such as setting up lookalike domains and utilizing email marketing services to target cloud-based email providers.
A recent study by Metomic found that 40% of Google Drive files analyzed contained sensitive information, increasing the risk of data breaches and cyberattacks.
