Increased Cyber Regulation in the Offing as Attacks Mount
Expect governments to impose greater levels of cybersecurity regulation if businesses cannot defend against major attacks and stop breaches from happening. That’s a prediction from Black Hat founder Jeff Moss, speaking at Black Hat Europe in London this week. He believes that eventually, the world will come to a tipping point where too many highly…
Lumen Technologies Hit by Two Cyberattacks
Headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, Lumen offers an enterprise technology platform that combines networking, cloud, security, and collaboration services. In a Form 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week, the company revealed that intruders deployed malware on its systems in two separate incidents. The first of them was a ransomware attack…
GoDaddy Says Recent Hack Part of Multi-Year Campaign
In a statement published last week on its website, the hosting giant said a small number of customers complained in early December 2022 about their websites being intermittently redirected. An analysis showed the redirects occurring on apparently random sites hosted on GoDaddy’s cPanel shared hosting services. The redirects were difficult to reproduce. Further analysis revealed…
Ransomware Operators Threaten to Leak 1.5TB of Supernus Pharmaceuticals Data
The attack, the Rockville, Maryland-based company says, likely happened in mid-November, when a ransomware group accessed data on certain systems, deployed malware to prevent access to files, and then threatened to leak the exfiltrated files. Despite that, Supernus Pharmaceuticals says it did not experience a significant impact on its business, as its operations were not…
