Russell Kinsaul reports a serious situation in St. Louis, Missouri: A cyberattack has caused a nationwide outage of the Code Red emergency notification system, leaving cities and counties across the St. Louis region unable to use the popular system to send tornado warnings and other emergency alerts directly to residents’ phones. Code Red has been…
Introduction Financial institutions are facing a new reality: cyber-resilience has passed from being a best practice, to an operational necessity, to a prescriptive regulatory requirement. Crisis management or Tabletop exercises, for a long time relatively rare in the context of cybersecurity, have become required as a series of regulations has introduced this requirement to FSI…
HHS added ten listings to its public leak site today, all of which are part of the Integrated Oncology Network (“ION”). According to its substitute notice, on May 9, ION concluded an investigation of a phishing incident that occurred between December 13 and December 16, 2024. The incident resulted in “unauthorized access to patient information…
This approach represents an evolution from threat actors abusing remote monitoring and management tools
In the fourth of our five-part series, Sophos X-Ops explores threat actors’ real-world criminal business interests
If this had been a security drill, someone would’ve said it went too far. But it wasn’t a drill—it was real. The access? Everything looked normal. The tools? Easy to find. The detection? Came too late. This is how attacks happen now—quiet, convincing, and fast. Defenders aren’t just chasing hackers anymore—they’re struggling to trust what…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malware family dubbed YiBackdoor that has been found to share “significant” source code overlaps with IcedID and Latrodectus. “The exact connection to YiBackdoor is not yet clear, but it may be used in conjunction with Latrodectus and IcedID during attacks,” Zscaler ThreatLabz said in a Tuesday report….
