New research shows institutions in the financial sector experience up to 300 times more cyberattacks than other sectors, with large banks reporting 45 percent of their employees susceptible to phishing attacks. The study from KnowBe4 reveals almost all (97 percent) of major US banks experienced third-party breaches in 2024, while targeted intrusions against financial institutions...Read More
A new large-scale campaign has been observed exploiting over 100 compromised WordPress sites to direct site visitors to fake CAPTCHA verification pages that employ the ClickFix social engineering tactic to deliver information stealers, ransomware, and cryptocurrency miners. The large-scale cybercrime campaign, first detected in August 2025, has been codenamed ShadowCaptcha by the Israel National Digital...Read More
The Maryland Transit Administration says it is actively investigating a cybersecurity incident, namely a ransom attack, that has rendered it unable to accept new requests for rides for its Mobility paratransit service for the disabled. MTA, which says on its website that it’s responsible for “one of the largest multi-modal transit systems in the United...Read More
A leading data and security programming specialist is scrambling to restore operations after a ransomware incident, a new regulatory filing has revealed. Data I/O provides solutions for Flash-based devices in the automotive, medical, consumer electronics and industrial control markets. However, the US manufacturer said in an SEC filing late last week that it experienced a...Read More
Electronics manufacturer Data I/O has reported a ransomware attack that took place earlier this month. Regulatory filings from the firm show it detected a breach of internal IT systems on 6th August. “Upon discovery, the Company promptly activated its response protocols, took steps to secure its global IT systems and implemented containment measures, including proactively...Read More
Redazione RHC : 26 August 2025 08:36 On the night of August 19, the IT infrastructure of the Salesian Pontifical University (UPS) was the victim of a serious cyber attack that rendered the University’s website and all digital services temporarily inaccessible. The incident resulted in an immediate shutdown of online activities, causing inconvenience to students, faculty, and...Read More
UK-based multinational telecom firm Colt Technology Services confirmed on Thursday that hackers have taken some data from its systems. Colt provides network, voice, and other services to customers in Europe, Asia and the United States. The company announced on August 14 that some support services had become unavailable due to some systems being taken offline...Read More
The Hook Android banking trojan has received a significant update, adding ransomware-style extortion to its already formidable arsenal of surveillance and fraud tools. Zimperium’s zLabs research team has identified “Hook v3” as the most advanced iteration of the malware to date, with 38 new remote commands that push it beyond traditional banking threats into spyware...Read More
The total number of people impacted is expected to be 2.4 million. The database of kidney dialysis firm Davita’s labs was hit by ransomware in April, affecting more than two million individuals. According to The Register, in a filing with the US Department of Health and Human Services, the global healthcare provider, which operates 2,661...Read More
Cybercriminals have unveiled a novel variation of the ClickFix social engineering technique that weaponizes AI-powered summarization tools to stealthily distribute ransomware instructions. By leveraging invisible prompt injection and a “prompt overdose” strategy, attackers embed malicious directives within hidden HTML elements that AI summarizers in email clients, browser extensions, and productivity platforms faithfully reproduce in their...Read More
