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Air Canada breach admitted by BianLian ransomware gang Air Canada had 210 GB of data claimed to be stolen by the BianLian ransomware operation during a recent data breach, BleepingComputer reports.

Data breaches have been reported by two-thirds of organizations with threat-based security measures over the past two years, while education continued to be one of the sectors most likely to be impacted by cyberattacks this year amid increasingly diverse threats, reports SiliconAngle.

BleepingComputer reports that WordPress sites could be taken over by a new backdoor masquerading as a legitimate caching plugin.

The company has taken down its systems in an effort to determine the scope of the attack.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been noted by Progress Software to have launched an investigation into the widespread hack of its MOVEit file transfer app, which has so far impacted 2,546 organizations and exposed information from over 64 million individuals, TechCrunch reports.

Cofense researchers say new attacks with LinkedIn Smart Links target user email credentials mostly in the financial and manufacturing sectors.

Megjelent a SANS és a Nemzetbiztonsági Szakszolgálat Nemzeti Kibervédelmi Intézet közös kiadványának 2023. október havi száma, amelyben a szoftverek frissítésével foglalkozunk.

By working cooperatively, the West and Africa can mobilize to tackle nation-state-backed cyber threats.

Evasive malware disguised as a caching plugin allows attackers to create an admin account on a WordPress site, then take over and monetize sites at the expense of legitimate SEO and user privacy.

Government security processes are often viewed as tedious and burdensome — but applying the lessons learned from them is imperative for private industry to counter a nation-state threat.