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As organizations face an increasingly complex ransomware landscape, the need for resilience, realistic incident response planning, and proactive government regulation has never been more critical.

Collaboration with security teams, making cybersecurity a core principle of business strategy, and investing in defenses better position organizations to thwart threats and ensure business continuity.

The robocalls relayed an AI-generated impersonation of Biden’s voice, urging New Hampshire voters not to vote in January's Democratic primary.

The security flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-28987, received a 9.1 severity rating in the Common Vulnerability Scoring System. The security blunder affects Web Help Desk 12.8.3 HF1 and its previous versions, and users are encouraged to manually install the 12.8.3 HF2 to potentially remove the baked-in creds.

The breach, uncovered on April 28 by Cybernews researchers, impacted 37,349 files containing sensitive data such as names, email addresses, home addresses, and order information.

Results also showed that 98% of ransomware attacks on state and local government organizations resulted in data encryption, a considerable increase from the 76% encryption rate reported in 2023.

The report from Critical Start examined 4,602 ransomware and database leak reports across 24 industries in 126 countries and more than 3,400 high and critical alerts generated by 20 supported endpoint detection and response solutions and found that the manufacturing industry faced the most threats,

According to ESET researchers who discovered the campaign, the malware, which they named NGate, mimicked legitimate banking apps, convincing victims to download a malicious app via phishing messages that claimed their devices were compromised.

The vulnerability, tagged as CVE-2021-44228, was first reported in November 2021 and led to a global scramble to implement patches. Despite these efforts, the flaw remains a persistent threat due to complex software dependencies that hinder comprehensive patching.

The flaw affects all versions of the plugin up to 6.3.0.1 and allows attackers to escalate privileges without authentication, giving them the ability to create rogue administrator accounts.