Malware & Threats

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

The Cologne, Germany-based company provides solutions for cell and therapy research, including COVID-19-related products. It has facilities in 28 countries and employs more than 3,000 people. In an official statement, Miltenyi Biotec announced that, over the past couple of weeks, it experienced malware attacks that affected some of its order processing capabilities. “During the last…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

Nuspire released a report, outlining new cybercriminal activity and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) throughout Q3 2020, with additional insight from Recorded Future. Threat actors becoming even more ruthless The report demonstrates threat actors becoming even more ruthless. Throughout Q3, hackers shifted focus from home networks to overburdened public entities, including the education sector and…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

McAfee released a report examining cybercriminal activity related to malware and the evolution of cyber threats in Q2 2020. During this period, there was an average of 419 new threats per minute as overall new malware samples grew by 11.5%. A significant proliferation in malicious Donoff Microsoft Office documents attacks propelled new PowerShell malware up…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

The warning comes roughly one week after the United States revealed that the same adversary targeted Democratic voters in multiple states with emails seeking to intimidate them into voting for President Donald Trump. In the previous alert, CISA and the FBI noted that the Iranian hackers targeted known vulnerabilities in virtual private network (VPN) products…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

In October 2019, Google announced it had achieved “quantum supremacy” in a Forbes article entitled “Quantum Computing Poses An Existential Security Threat, But Not Today.” The Google team had developed a quantum computer that could complete a computation in just over three minutes instead of the 10,000 years it would have taken on a traditional…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

The machine identity attack surface is exploding, with a rapid increase in all types of machine identity-related security events in 2018 and 2019, according to Venafi. For example, the number of reported machine identity-related cyberattacks grew by over 400% during this two-year period. “We have seen machine use skyrocket in organizations over the last five…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Founded in 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, Seyfarth has over 900 lawyers across 17 offices, providing clients all around the world with advisory, litigation, and transactional legal services. The Am Law 100 firm serves more than 300 of the Fortune 500 companies. Over the weekend, the company fell victim to a ransomware attack that spread aggressively…