For your reminder of the insider threat for this week, Tolly Taylor reports: A Maryland pharmacist is accused of installing spyware on 400 computers over eight years to watch women at the hospital or in their homes, a lawsuit alleges. Six women filed a civil lawsuit on Thursday against the University of Maryland Medical System,…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting NAKIVO Backup & Replication software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-48248 (CVSS score: 8.6), an absolute path traversal bug that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to
Sudbury.com reports: Data acquired by unauthorized individuals during Rainbow District School Board’s recent cyber incident “was deleted and has not been shared,” according to an update on the situation from the school board. The school board also said in the Feb. 28 statement that three weeks after the cyber incident, which meant internet was unavailable…
In the second of our five-part series, Sophos X-Ops investigates the so-called ‘white’ (legitimate) business interests of threat actors
Georgia Sweeting reports: The UK government has announced the full scope of its upcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, which aims to strengthen the country’s digital defences and reduce the growing risks posed by cyber threats. Set to be introduced later this year, the bill will place tougher cybersecurity requirements on organisations that provide essential services,…
With DORA’s January 2025 compliance deadline approaching, financial institutions must embrace rigorous testing, tailored threat profiles, and continuous vigilance to safeguard against cyber threats. The post DORA’s Deadline Looms: Navigating the EU’s Mandate for Threat Led Penetration Testing appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Threat actors are exploiting a severe security flaw in PHP to deliver cryptocurrency miners and remote access trojans (RATs) like Quasar RAT. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-4577, refers to an argument injection vulnerability in PHP affecting Windows-based systems running in CGI mode that could allow remote attackers to run arbitrary code. Cybersecurity company
