Ransomware

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

The ruling dismissed all claims against SolarWinds and Chief Information Security Officer Timothy Brown.

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.

Hacking group FIN7 has been distributing its new endpoint detection and response evasion tool "AvNeutralizer" across several cybercrime forums.

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.

Organizations in the critical national infrastructure sectors saw median ransomware payments increase 41-fold over the past year, with the highest payments recorded among lower education and federal government entities.

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.