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Ransomware attacks were reported by Rapid7 to have impacted nearly 5,200 organizations around the world in 2023.

Nearly 20 organizations using vulnerable Ivanti Connect Secure VPN appliances were reported by Ivanti.

Microsoft Office 365, Amazon Web Services, PayPal, Twilio, and other cloud and software-as-a-service platforms are being targeted by the novel FBot malware based on the Python programming language, reports SiliconAngle.

Cybernews reports that more than 40% of cybersecurity professionals have noted the inability to conduct sufficient cybersecurity threat response due to excessive stress fueled by a limited workforce and burnout.

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Fifty percent of the environmental services sector's HTTP traffic was attributed to HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service attacks, which recorded a 61,839% increase during the fourth quarter of 2023, compared with the same period in 2022, reports The Hacker News.

Security Affairs reports that organizations across Finland were warned by the country's National Cyber Security Centre regarding mounting Akira ransomware attacks against network-attached storage and backup devices since last month. Akira was involved in six of seven ransomware attacks across the country in December, three of which have been deployed during the extended vacations of the Christmas season, said NCSC-FI in its alert. Attacks deployed by Akira have been targeted at Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense appliances impacted by the zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-20269, which could be leveraged to facilitate brute-force intrusions. "In all cases, careful efforts have been made to destroy the backups, and the attacker will find it difficult to do this. NAS (Network-Attached Storage) servers that are often used for backups on the network have been hacked and wiped, as have automatic tape backup devices, and in almost every case we know of, all backups have been lost," the alert said.

U.S. nonprofit organization advocating for clean water access Water for People had some of its data compromised following a cyberattack against its systems, which the Medusa ransomware operation has claimed, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.