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Threat actors have been targeting insecure Linux SSH servers with dictionary attack tools and port scanners in a bid to facilitate cryptocurrency mining and distributed denial-of-service attacks, The Hacker News reports.

Despite the cybersecurity venture capital market cooling from its peak in 2022, these six deals closed at well over $100 million in 2023.

Nobody has more data on cybersecurity risk and losses than a cyber-insurance carrier.

By shifting to a more proactive mindset, security professionals and their organizations can blunt the impact of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, if not prevent them altogether.

Cybersecurity continues to be a growing sector, but a lot of investment funding is gravitating toward supply chain security and artificial intelligence (AI) for solving a range of security problems.

"Coordinated inauthentic behavior" networks are already attempting to build up audiences for their campaigns via fake news outlets, social media platforms, and other avenues.

The document offers best practice guidance to a growing industry facing an onslaught of espionage and ransomware attacks.

SecurityWeek reports that organizations in the IT and commercial critical infrastructure industries have been warned by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency regarding ongoing attacks leveraging already addressed vulnerabilities impacting QNAP network video recorder devices and Future X Communications routers, which have already been added to the agency's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Oklahoma-based Integris Health had data from more than 2 million patients claimed to be stolen in a cyberattack last month, reports KWTV-TV.

Major Japanese multinational automaker Nissan had its Australian branch claimed to be compromised by the Akira ransomware operation, which warned that it would expose nearly 100 GB of data it allegedly stole from the company after it refused to meet the group's demands, according to Security Affairs.