Homeland Security Today

Exploit Kits: The Silent Web Threat Affecting Billions

When we talk to people whose computers have been infected, they often ask how it happened. In a growing number of cases, they have been doing nothing more than reading a news website or browsing for ...
Business Wire

90% of Ransomware Incidents Exploit Firewalls

90% of ransomware incidents exploit firewalls – and the fastest observed ransomware case took three hours from breach to encryption. Most widely detected CVE vulnerability dates from 2013 – 11% of ...
TechRepublic

Hackers Used New Exploit Kit to Compromise Thousands of iPhones

Hackers Used New Exploit Kit to Compromise Thousands of iPhones Your email has been sent An iOS exploit framework has revealed how advanced mobile attack tools can move rapidly from surveillance ...
Forbes

Ongoing Ransomware Attacks Exploit Linux Vulnerability, CISA Warns

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Admit it: the first thing you think of when ransomware is ...
Hosted on MSN

Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, says DOJ

Infosec in Brief The former General Manager of defense contractor L3Harris’s cyber subsidiary Trenchant sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, according to a court filing last week.… We first ...
MacRumors

This iOS Exploit Kit Has 23 Attacks – But Lockdown Mode Stops It Cold

Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has a new report out about a powerful iOS exploit kit called "Coruna," which traveled from a surveillance vendor's customer to a Russian espionage group to ...
Dark Reading

Ransomware Gangs Exploit ESXi Bug for Instant, Mass Encryption of VMs

Multiple ransomware groups have been weaponizing an authentication bypass bug in VMware ESXi hypervisors to quickly deploy malware across virtualized environments. VMware assigned the bug ...
Dark Reading

Medusa Ransomware Actors Exploit Critical Fortra GoAnywhere Flaw

Threat actors armed with Medusa ransomware are actively exploiting a maximum-severity security vulnerability in Fortra's GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) product, sparking more questions about ...
Rutland Herald

90% of Ransomware Incidents Exploit Firewalls

Barracuda Networks, Inc., a leading cybersecurity company providing complete protection against complex threats for all size business, has released data showing that 90% of ransomware incidents in ...