The following is translation by NAVER for Maiel Business Newspaper. DataBreaches is guessing that the “eat-dog” situation reference is what we call “dog-eat-dog” to refer to brutal competitor actions, but that’s just a guess. Kim Kyusik, Kim Yutae, and Yang Seiho report: Yes24, the largest Internet bookstore in Korea, suffered another “eat-dog” situation due to ransomware…
Rob Copeland, Stacy Cowley, and Devlin Barrett report: Some of the nation’s biggest banks were scrambling on Saturday night to assess the fallout from a large-scale hack of a vendor whose compromise could expose sensitive customer data. The vendor, SitusAMC, has been deployed by hundreds of banks and other lenders to help originate and collect……
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to phishing campaigns that impersonate popular brands and trick targets into calling phone numbers operated by threat actors. “A significant portion of email threats with PDF payloads persuade victims to call adversary-controlled phone numbers, displaying another popular social engineering technique known as Telephone-Oriented Attack Delivery (TOAD
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SuspectFile reports: The healthcare sector continues to be a prime target for cybercriminal groups, with targeted attacks putting patient safety and medical information confidentiality at risk. The recent attack on Heart Centre, a network of cardiology clinics located in New South Wales, Australia, carried out by the DragonForce group, once again highlights the vulnerability of hospital IT…
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an attack that involved a threat actor utilizing a Python-based backdoor to maintain persistent access to compromised endpoints and then leveraged this access to deploy the RansomHub ransomware throughout the target network. According to GuidePoint Security, initial access is said to have been facilitated by means of a JavaScript malware downloaded…
The availability of exploit code will likely lead to more widespread opportunistic attacks
