The incident is part of a trend of scammers impersonating high-profile ransomware actors and claiming to have exfiltrated sensitive data to extort payments from targeted businesses.

Analysts at Dragos discovered that Volt Typhoon, an APT group linked to China, had maintained unauthorized access to the operational technology (OT) network of Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments (LELWD) from February to November 2023.

Switzerland’s NCSC will require critical infrastructure organizations to report cyberattacks within 24 hours. The new policy related to security breach notification is introduced as a response to the increasing number of cyber incidents.

According to a new report by Group-IB, fraudsters are increasingly leveraging phishing websites and social engineering to bypass security measures, allowing them to hijack mobile numbers and access sensitive accounts.

In a new report, the Alan Turing Institute urged the government and academia to develop a long-term strategy to address systemic cultural and structural security barriers to effective AI research security.

Most (87%) security professionals have reported that their organization has encountered an AI-driven cyber-attack in the last year, with the technology increasingly takes hold, according to a new report by SoSafe.

Ransomware groups have shifted away from mass compromise events from vulnerability exploits towards “reliable and repeatable” methods to gain access to victim networks, according to Travelers’ latest Cyber Threat Report.

A new report by the SANS Institute revealed that most organizations suffered an incident leading to data loss, unauthorized access, operational disruption, or other events. Just 43% indicated no such incident occurred over the past 12 months.

These tools aim to prevent users from getting scammed through more conversational text scams that begin innocently but gradually manipulate victims into sharing sensitive data, handing over funds or switching to other messaging apps.

The attack campaign, attributed by Proofpoint to a cluster known as UNK_CraftyCamel, employed a sophisticated infection chain to deploy a newly discovered backdoor named Sosano.