Cybercrime

A thwarted cyber attack in a Florida town that could have resulted in the poisoning of the water supply is a timely reminder of the vulnerability of critical services

The latest investigation updates from SolarWinds and Microsoft offer differing views on how nation-state threat actors compromised SolarWinds' environment.

https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/252496046/Microsoft-SolarWinds-in-dispute-over-nation-state-attacks

Conservation charity is investigating what it describes as a ‘sophisticated’ cyber attack but has waited nearly two months to inform its members

Updated versions of Agent Tesla Rat include new techniques that fiddle with code to disable endpoint protection tools on target systems

Cerber ransomware-as-a-service seems to have re-emerged as one of the most critical cyber threats facing healthcare organisations, reports VMware Carbon Black

UK Research and Innovation was hit by an undisclosed strain of ransomware at the end of January

Outsourcing firm was hit by the ransomware last week but insists most of its operations are running as normal

Every fifth victim of the SolarWinds Solorigate/Sunburst attack was a manufacturing organisation, say researchers

A malware botnet that was used by cybercriminals to infiltrate thousands of companies and millions of computers worldwide has been taken down in an international operation.

Action Fraud is raising awareness of another coronavirus vaccine scam, after it received a high volume of reports relating to a phishing email on Monday 25 January.