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“We regularly see attempted attacks and rumors circulating, but it is crucial to rely only on official communications from Zscaler itself to get factual updates and information,” the employee had said. The rumors started after the notorious Serbian threat actor named IntelBroker offered to sell access to a cybersecurity company with a revenue of $1.8…

A medical lab that specialises in cancer screenings has admitted to an alarming data breach that left sensitive patient information exposed for years – and accessible by unauthorised parties. California-based Guardant Health is notifying affected individuals that information related to samples collected in late 2019 and 2020 was “inadvertently” left exposed online to the general…

Cybersecurity analysts point out that we are seeing a departure from traditional approaches. Traditional cybersecurity solutions have been limited to either time-driven or point-driven security, noted Faisal Kawooza, chief analyst at Techarc. This means they could only defend against cyberthreats that their systems had already recognized, understood, and formulated defenses against. “As we see the…

The kingpin of the LockBit ransomware is named and sanctioned, a cybersecurity consultant is charged with a $1.5 million extortion, and a romance fraudster defrauded women he met on Tinder of £80,000. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and…

“The initial vector is a SQL Injection in the login form,” Vlad Babkin, the Eclypsium security researcher who found the flaw, told CSO. “Theoretically it should be possible to bypass the login, but we felt our proof of exploitability was sufficient to diagnose the vulnerability.” Weak hashes contributed to vulnerability In theory cryptographic hashes should…

That has upset a noisy element among the government’s own MPs, many of whom see China as a major threat to UK security and would prefer it if the government were more explicit about this. In March, China was blamed for a cyber-campaign targeting MPs. Not long after, two Parliamentary aides were charged with spying…

“Among other things, traffic should be appropriately encrypted prior to even entering a VPN. All technology has vulnerabilities. The mere fact that a tool has a particular vulnerability doesn’t mean it can’t be helpful in a robust defense in depth strategy.” Noah Beddome, Leviathan’s CISO in residence, said that CISOs need to remember the origin…

DocGo also added that, while the investigation is ongoing, the company has found no evidence of continued unauthorized activity on its systems and has contained the incident. Additionally, it is sending out notifications to users affected by the attack. Healthcare highly attacked There have been heightened adversary activities in US healthcare, with the authorities warning…