Vulnerabilities associated with ransomware moves from 266 to 278 in the third quarter of 2021, which indicates an increase in the number of ransomware attacks.

GreyNoise's data showed not all KEV catalog listings were inspirational for ransomware slingers. Some bugs were exploited by extortionists just before CISA added them to the KEV catalog.

Microsoft had discovered five Paragon Partition Manager BioNTdrv.sys driver flaws, with one used by ransomware gangs in zero-day attacks to gain SYSTEM privileges in Windows.

Microsoft has patched a zero-day vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Windows, which researchers say hackers exploited to launch ransomware attacks. Microsoft said in a security alert on ...

Shifting dominance Most interestingly, Corvus’s latest Cyber Threat Report claims the ransomware threat landscape is becoming increasingly distributed, with 59 active groups now operating worldwide.

After being used in Akira and Fog ransomware attacks, a critical Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) security flaw was also recently exploited to deploy Frag ransomware.

China-based threat actor Storm-2603 has been observed attacking on-premises SharePoint customers with Warlock ransomware. That comes from Microsoft, which on June 23 updated a blog post published ...

Serious bugs found in a building access control system, ransomware news and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It's Monday June 13th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on ...