As new mandates come online, most firms need to ensure IT systems meet changing regulations. But is compliance stealing resources from cybersecurity efforts? Four out of five firms are more worried about compliance than they were five years ago, according to recent research from Hornetsecurity. In more than half (57%) of organisations, the IT department […]

MGM Resorts International reported a “cybersecurity issue” Monday that may have affected its hospitality, gaming and entertainment properties across the U.S. The issue may still be affecting the publicly traded company: Some of its websites were down late Monday, and it urged customers to book rooms and request reservations by phone. Its full impact on […]

A new threat to Android devices named android[.]pandora has been identified that compromises the devices when pirated video content is installed or during firmware updates. This malware belongs to the variant of Mirai Trojan, which has been used to infect smart devices and utilize a network of remotely controlled bots or “zombies” to launch DDOS. […]

A north London school and a Berkshire schools group have become the latest victims of serious cyber-attacks ahead of the new term, according to local reports. Highgate Wood School in Crouch End will now begin accepting pupils on September 11 rather than September 5 as originally intended. The secondary school, which serves local students aged […]

The Electoral Commission has admitted it failed a cybersecurity test in the same year that hackers successfully attacked the organisation. The UK’s elections watchdog said it did not pass a Cyber Essentials test, a voluntary government-backed scheme that assesses an organisation’s readiness against cyber-attacks. The commission said it failed the test in 2021, when it […]

U.S. officials said Tuesday that the FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major malware network used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware attacks. They then remotely removed the malicious software agent — known as Qakbot — from thousands of infected computers. Cybersecurity experts […]

The UK’s cybersecurity agency has warned that chatbots can be manipulated by hackers to cause scary real-world consequences. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said there are growing cybersecurity risks of individuals manipulating the prompts through “prompt injection” attacks. This is where a user creates an input or a prompt that is designed to […]

Danish cloud hosting services provider CloudNordic has announced that all its systems were rendered unusable following a ransomware attack. The attack, the company explains in an incident notice on its website, started on Friday, August 18, and resulted in all its systems and servers being shut down. “Websites, e-mail systems, customer systems, our customers’ websites, etc. […]

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora has urged companies to modernize their cybersecurity systems, cautioning that bad actors have become much faster at breaching company defenses than ever before. Speaking to Jim Cramer on CNBC’s Mad Money on Aug. 21, the cybersecurity firm CEO said that companies with outdated security systems need to take particular […]