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GuidePoint Security has released the GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team’s (GRIT) Q1 2023 Ransomware Report. Within it, GRIT tracked 849 publicly posted ransomware victims claimed by 29 different threat groups in Q1 2023, which is a 25% increase compared to Q4 2022. Manufacturing,

NationsBenefits, a Florida-based healthcare giant, has submitted a data breach notification to the New Hampshire attorney general, revealing that over 7,100 customers within the state had their data compromised. This was due to a ransomware attack on the widely used Fortra GoAnywhere file transfer

Data storage giant Western Digital has been hacked by cybercriminals who claim to have stolen around 10 terabytes of data, including customer information. The hackers are demanding a ransom of a minimum of eight figures from Western Digital in exchange for not publishing the stolen data. On

NCR Global, the American software and technology company, has suffered an outage of its Aloha point-of-sale (POS) platform across several restaurants. After a few days of radio silence, NCR disclosed the outage was caused by a ransomware attack on a data center responsible for powering the service.

On Friday, Montana became the first US state to pass a bill banning TikTok from all personal devices and app stores operating within its borders. The legislation is the most far-reaching attempt yet by a state government to restrict the use of the social media platform over perceived security

Spyware from Israeli cyber mercenary company QuaDream has been used to target journalists, political opposition figures, and advocacy organizations in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, according to research published by Microsoft and internet watchdog Citizen Lab. The spyware was

Cybersecurity Researcher Jeremiah Fowler has recently reported to vpnMentor about the existence of a non-password protected database containing over 1.2 million records. Upon further research, I identified these records to be related to individuals who were employed or applied to work in law

Cybercriminals are hacking websites to show fake Google Chrome errors that push users to install a malicious file to update. Initiated in November 2022, this campaign's intensity increased after February 2023, as NTT security analyst Rintaro Koike noted. The operation has since broadened its scope

Microsoft’s April 2023 Patch Tuesday released several security updates, which included a patch for a zero-day vulnerability affecting all supported Windows versions. This vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) could give hackers access to an unpatched system. Microsoft confirmed

Tesla is facing a class action lawsuit from one of its car owners who alleges that the electric carmaker has violated the privacy of its customers. Henry Yeh, a San Francisco resident who owns Tesla's 2022 Model Y, filed the lawsuit on Friday, April 7th, in the US District Court for the Northern