Breach

Threat actors immediately launched attacks with malicious payloads to exploit the faulty CrowdStrike Falcon update that resulted in a massive global IT outage.

New attacks are exploiting known security flaws impacting internet-facing systems, including Microsoft Exchange Server, SonicWall, F5 BIG-IP instances, and the open-source Pantegana and Spark RAT backdoors.

Interpol's crackdown on West African cyber fraud and organized crime is part of Operation Jackal III aimed at combating mounting financial fraud across the region.

Experts point out that CDK Global's parent firm Brookfield Business Partners did not report its cybersecurity incident to the SEC.

AT&T has reportedly paid a hefty ransom to hackers in exchange for the deletion of call detail records belonging to more than 100 million users exfiltrated through a breach of its Snowflake cloud environmen.

MDR provider Arctic Wolf says the ATT breach shows that even big companies can have cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

Following a breach that has had an impact on a range of companies using Snowflake's cloud-based data services, the company is implementing an MFA requirement for users.

State and local governments in the U.S. experienced a 360% increase in attempted phishing attacks over the last 12 months.