BrewDog exposed data of 200,000 shareholders for over a year
Researchers say that BrewDog exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) of roughly 200,000 shareholders for the best part of 18 months. Special feature Cyberwar...
Russia poses the biggest nation-state cyber threat, says Microsoft
Beijing-backed hackers caused a crisis after hacking Exchange email servers this year with flaws Microsoft didn’t know about, but Microsoft says Russian hackers are far...
Apache Releases Another Patch for Actively Exploited HTTP Server Zero-Day
The Apache HTTP Server Project on Thursday announced the release of another update in response to a recently discovered zero-day vulnerability after determining that...
CIA Creates Working Group on China as Threats Keep Rising
The CIA said Thursday it will create a top-level working group on China as part of a broad U.S. government effort focused on countering...
Google announces new efforts to protect journalists and high-risk users from cyberattacks
Google announced on Friday that it would be delivering a slate of new cybersecurity protection features for high-risk users one day after telling about...
Twitch Struggles With Hackers and Hate Raid Bots
Twitch, Amazon’s popular live video streaming platform, on Thursday said hackers took advantage of a mistake in a server configuration tweak to steal data....
Attackers Encrypt VMware ESXi Server With Python Ransomware
A recently observed attack employed a Python-based ransomware variant to target an organization’s VMware ESXi server and encrypt all virtual disks, Sophos reports. The...
Researchers Warn of FontOnLake Rootkit Malware Targeting Linux Systems
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new campaign that likely targets entities in Southeast Asia with a previously unrecognized Linux malware that’s engineered to enable...
New Patch Released for Actively Exploited 0-Day Apache Path Traversal to RCE Attacks
The Apache Software Foundation on Thursday released additional security updates for its HTTP Server product to remediate what it says is an “incomplete fix”...
Building cyber radar systems could alert Indo-Pacific nations and their allies
Keith Alexander before the US Senate Intelligence Committee in 2017 Image: Getty Images Russian ransomware operators need to be called out and suffer real...