DUPAGE CO., Ill. – Multiple DuPage County government agencies, including the Sheriff’s Office, were the targets of a ransomware attack on Monday, officials said. The county said its systems were taken offline due to the attack. What we know: Around 2:30 a.m., the county was made aware of the incident that impacted the sheriff’s office,...Read More
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Cybercrime is escalating globally, posing significant threats to businesses and consumers, according to Verizon’s 18th Annual Data Breach Investigations Report. The report analyzed over 22,000 incidents and 12,000 confirmed data breaches across more than 130 countries, highlighting the widespread nature of cyber threats. “This year’s Data Breach Investigations Report has been a...Read More
At the 2025 RSA Conference in San Francisco, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem delivered a blistering keynote that reignited a fierce national debate over the future of cybersecurity governance in the United States. Her address was not just a critique of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), it also was a declaration of...Read More
By Bloomberg Published April 29, 2025 A ransomware attack is the cause of a disruption at Marks and Spencer Group Plc., with hackers using a potent kind of malware to lock down some of the British retailer’s systems and render them inaccessible, according to people familiar with the attack. The company has for more than...Read More
NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, announced new data security capabilities that help customers strengthen their cyber resiliency.
Security teams can now leverage NetApp, the most secure storage on the planet, to take a proactive approach to data security at the storage layer and strengthen their overall security posture.
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The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report found BEC scams resulted in losses of $2.9 billion in 2023. Industries across the nation’s economic sector are just as reliant on digital devices and online services as the rest of us and are attracting the unwanted attention of cybercriminals — this includes the real estate sector. ...Read More
A China-aligned APT threat actor named “TheWizards” abuses an IPv6 networking feature to launch adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks that hijack software updates to install Windows malware. According to ESET, the group has been active since at least 2022, targeting entities in the Philippines, Cambodia, the United Arab Emirates, China, and Hong Kong. Victims include individuals, gambling companies,...Read More
The “cyber incident” that British multinational retailer Marks & Spencer has been struggling with for over a week is a ransomware attack, multiple sources have asserted. The Telegraph’s sources say ransomware was deployed by a unnamed criminal gang. Bleeping Computer’s says the attackers were members of the Scattered Spider hacking group, and that M&S’s virtual...Read More
Check Point Research has released its first AI Security Report at RSA Conference 2025, revealing how cybercriminals are leveraging artificial intelligence for attacks. The report identifies four major AI-driven cyber threats: AI-enhanced impersonation, LLM data poisoning, AI-created malware, and weaponization of AI models. Key findings show that...Read More
