The return to offices, coupled with uninformed users (including IT pros) has teed up an unprecedented risk of enterprise attack. [...]

American IT companies and government have been targeted by the Nobelium state-sponsored group. [...]

The driver, called "Netfilter," is a rootkit that talks to Chinese C2 IPs and aims to spoof gamers' geo-locations to cheat the system and play from anywhere, Microsoft said. [...]

One of the Carbanak cybergang's highest-level hackers is destined to serve seven years while making $2.5 million in restitution payments. [...]

“I am totally screwed,” one user wailed after finding years of data nuked. Western Digital advised yanking the NAS storage devices offline ASAP: There's an exploit. [...]

The infamous ransomware group hit two big-name companies within hours of each other. [...]

Akamai's 2020 gaming report shows that cyberattacks on the video game industry skyrocketed, shooting up 340 percent in 2020. [...]

... until you reset network settings and stop connecting to a weirdly named network, that is. FUD is spreading. iOS Wi-Fi demolition is not. [...]

This is the fourth time in a bit over a year that Carnival’s admitted to breaches, with two of them being ransomware attacks. [...]

Troy Gill, manager of security research at Zix, discusses the most common ways sensitive data is scooped up by nefarious sorts. [...]

Exploit in the widely used document service leveraged to send malicious links that appear legitimate but actually steal victims credentials. [...]

Hank Schless, senior manager of security solutions at Lookout, notes basic steps that organizations can take to protect themselves as ransomware gangs get smarter. [...]

CD Projekt Red confirmed that employee and game-related data appears to be floating around the cyber-underground, four months after a hack on the Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 developer. [...]

Airlines are warned to scour networks for traces of the campaign, likely the work of APT41, lurking in networks. [...]

Google has patched its Chrome browser, fixing one critical cache issue and a second bug being actively exploited in the wild. [...]

Misconfigured dashboards are yet again at the heart of a widespread, ongoing cryptocurrency campaign squeezing Monero and Ethereum from Kubernetes clusters. [...]

A nameless malware resulted in a huge data heist of files, credentials, cookies and more that researchers found collected into a cloud database. [...]

Attackers accessed a VPN account that was no longer in use to freeze the company’s network in a ransomware attack whose repercussions are still vibrating. [...]

Researchers discovered a highly targeted malware campaign launched in April, in which a new, unknown threat actor used two of the vulnerabilities that Microsoft said are under active attack. [...]

Socially engineered BEC attacks using X-rated material spike 974 percent. [...]

The tables have been turned, the FBI & DOJ said after announcing the use of blockchain technology to track down the contents of DarkSide's cryptocurrency wallet. [...]

Judges rule that Georgia police officer did not violate CFAA when he accessed law-enforcement data in exchange for bribe money, a ruling that takes heat off ethical hackers. [...]

The REvil ransomware gang is interviewed on the Telegram channel called Russian OSINT. [...]

In this Threatpost podcast, Fortinet’s top researcher sketches out the ransom landscape, with takeaways from the DarkSide attack on Colonial Pipeline. [...]

FinTech fraud spikes 159 percent in Q1 2021 along with stimulus spending. [...]