Expanded management regions for Sophos DNS Protection

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added two security flaws impacting TP-Link wireless routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, noting that there is evidence of them being exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2023-50224 (CVSS score: 6.5) – An authentication bypass by spoofing…

Colin Wood reports: Indiana state agencies on Tuesday are warning residents to delete phony emails sent using official state government email addresses. Phishing emails emanating from numerous departments — from the Department of Child Services to the Indiana Horse Racing Commission — fraudulently inform recipients of unpaid toll fees and warn of financial penalties or…

Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party has informed its members of a data breach, but admits “it is impracticable to notify individuals”.  David Hollingworth reports: A pair of Australian political parties associated with firebrand mining magnate Clive Palmer have confirmed they were the victims of a ransomware attack last month. According to a data breach notice…

Winter is coming – so it must be time for Sophos X-Ops’ report on this year’s MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluations Categories: Threat Research Tags: ATT&CK, Emulation, Featured, MITRE, MUSTANG PANDA, scattered spider, Sophos X-Ops

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have accused a trio of allegedly hacking the networks of five U.S. companies with BlackCat (aka ALPHV) ransomware between May and November 2023 and extorting them. Ryan Clifford Goldberg, Kevin Tyler Martin, and an unnamed co–conspirator (aka “Co-Conspirator 1”) based in Florida, all U.S. nationals, are said to have used…

Deborah McAleese reports: Twenty-eight computers containing the records of thousands of patients have been stolen from a Belfast Hospital, UTV can reveal. The computers were being used to train staff on the new encompass system, a digital healthcare record that is being rolled out across all health trusts. Belfast Health Trust said the missing appliances…