Nair is assistant editor for Information Security Media Group's global news desk. He has previously worked at TechCircle, IDG, Times Group and other publications where he reported on developments in enterprise technology, digital transformation and other issues.
U.S. federal authorities are establishing a new office to tackle supply chain security issues and help industry partners put federal guidance and policies into practice. Former GSA administrator Shon Lyublanovits says she is spearheading the launch of the new organization.
Cybercriminals exploited the verification process for Microsoft-certified authentication apps to obtain access to the inboxes of financial and marketing companies. Among the permissions threat actors sought were access to emails and calendars, says cybersecurity firm Proofpoint.
Ukraine traced a cyberattack that delayed a press briefing by the nation's information protection agency Tuesday to Russian Sandworm hackers. The group, which is accused of using wiper malware to disrupt the Ukrainian national Media Center, has close ties to the Russian GRU, investigators say.
Cybersecurity researchers say a Chinese for-profit threat group tracked as 8220 Gang is targeting cloud providers and poorly secured applications with a custom-built crypto miner and IRC bot. The malware can slow system performance, drive up costs and expose systems to security risks.
Contractors for the Federal Aviation Administration who attempted to correct a database synchronization issue ended up causing an hourslong outage to a key flight safety system, says the agency. No evidence exists that hackers caused the Jan. 11 airspace snafu.
Researchers have linked Chinese advanced persistent threat group Playful Taurus, also known as Vixen Panda and Nickel, to a series of attacks against Iranian organizations between July and December 2022. The group recently updated its toolkit to include a new variant of the Turian backdoor.
The U.S. Department of Defense is looking for a few good hackers to penetrate a facilities network underpinning the Pentagon's basement, mezzanine, and the command and communications center used by the president and the secretary of defense. Defense has hosted white hat hacking sessions since 2016.
A maker of software used to manage shipping vessel operations says it has shut down its servers after detecting a ransomware attack. Norwegian classification society DNV, maker of ShipManager software, says onboard software functionally continues to operate.
Meta says it is taking legal action against scraping-for-hire service provider Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts to copy accessible data about users when logged into Facebook, Instagram and other websites. The social media firms says it closed 60,000 fake accounts.
Trend Micro spotted operators of the Gootkit malware loader targeting the Australian healthcare sector. Trend Micro doesn't assert the Gootkit campaign is behind a ransomware attack against the country's largest private health insurer but says the "recent campaign might remind us of this incident."
Microsoft fixed an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in 2023's first Patch Tuesday dump. The Redmond giant also issued fixes for 98 other vulnerabilities, including 11 classified as critical and 87 as important. The zero-day vulnerability could be used as part of a ransomware attack.
Researchers have found that Kinsing malware gained access to Kubernetes servers by exploiting misconfigured and exposed PostgreSQL servers. The threat actors gained access by exploiting weakly configured PostgreSQL containers and vulnerable container images.
Low-level hackers are probing the capacity of ChatGPT to generate scripts that could be used toward criminal ends, such as for stealing files or malicious encryption. One poster on a hacking forum described the process as writing pseudo-code. More sophisticated cases are likely a matter of time.
U.S. authorities in New York arrested a 24-year-old French national residing in the United Arab Emirates and charged him with defrauding buyers of Mutant Ape Planet NFTs, a type of digital asset, saying he defrauded investors out of more than $2.9 million.
Pennsylvania-based nonprofit Maternal and Family Health Services this week revealed a ransomware attack in April 2022 that compromised patient medical and financial data. Information accessed in the breach includes names, addresses and Social Security numbers.
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