Gosia Wozniacka of Oregon Live reports: The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality on Friday declined to confirm or deny reports that a well-known ransomware group stole employee files in a recent cyberattack at the agency. The department faced questions after several cybersecurity websites reported that ransomware group Rhysida is behind the cyberattack at the DEQ […]
Lattica Emerges from Stealth to Solve AI’s Biggest Privacy Challenge with FHE
Tel Aviv, Israel, April 23rd, 2025, CyberNewsWire Lattica, an FHE-based platform enabling secure and private use of AI in the cloud, has emerged from stealth with $3.25 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Konstantin Lomashuk’s Cyber Fund, with participation from angel investor Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon Network and Sentient: The Open […]
Effective Privileged Access Management Implementation: A Step-by-Step Guide
Over the last ten to fifteen years, the way we interact with technology at work has fundamentally shifted. Once, it was common to travel to work, enter the office using a physical keycard, sit down at a wired desktop, and enter a password. Most, if not all, IT endpoints were connected to a physical network, […]
When More Data Means Less Visibility
Security teams are drowning in data, yet many struggle to extract actionable insights. As threats grow more complex, the demand for visibility has never been greater. But more data does not always mean better security outcomes. 63% of daily alerts are low priority or false positives, causing SOC analysts to report spending nearly a third […]
Interlock ransomware gang started leaking data allegedly stolen from leading kidney dialysis firm DaVita
Interlock ransomware gang started leaking data allegedly stolen from leading kidney dialysis firm DaVita Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2025 The Interlock ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the attack on the leading kidney dialysis company DaVita and leaked alleged stolen data. DaVita Inc. provides kidney dialysis services through a network of 2,675 outpatient centers in the United States, serving […]
The Internet of Things Design Challenges
Developing an engineering project is a challenge by itself. In the practice, dealing with some product or service is very requiring and it can take a couple of phases from an initial idea unless the final solution. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a cyber-physical system which needs both – the good understanding of the […]
Fake Alpine Quest Mapping App Spotted Spying on Russian Military
Fake Alpine Quest app laced with spyware was used to target Russian military Android devices, stealing location data, contacts, and sensitive files. A malicious version of Alpine Quest, a popular Android navigation app, has been found carrying spyware aimed at Russian military personnel. Security researchers at Doctor Web uncovered the modified software embedded with Android.Spy.1292.origin […]
Check Point Cloud Firewalls Achieve Industry Best 100% Block Rate and Accuracy: CyberRatings.Org Test Results Confirm
Organisations demand uncompromising protection against today’s most pressing threats while ensuring minimal disruption to legitimate business operations. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has just set a new industry benchmark by achieving a 100% exploit block rate including evasions in independent testing conducted by CyberRatings.org (Fig 1.). Fig 1: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security sets new […]
Hacking the hackers… with a credit card? • Graham Cluley
A cybersecurity firm is buying access to underground crime forums to gather intelligence. Does that seem daft to you? And over in Nigeria, even if romance scammers would like to update their LinkedIn profiles, just how easy is it to turn a new leaf after a sweet-talking career in cybercrime? All this and more is […]
Widespread Microsoft Entra lockouts tied to new security feature rollout
Windows administrators from numerous organizations report widespread account lockouts triggered by false positives in the rollout of a new Microsoft Entra ID’s “leaked credentials” detection app called MACE. These alerts and lockouts began last night, with some admins believing they were false positives as the accounts have unique passwords that are not used on any […]