Half-Billion Compromised Credentials Lurking on Open Cloud Server
A quarter-billion of those passwords were not seen in previous breaches that have been added to…
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Kronos Ransomware Outage Drives Widespread Payroll Chaos
Kronos, the workforce-management provider, said a weeks-long outage of its cloud services is in the offing,…
‘Karakurt’ Extortion Threat Emerges, But Says No to Ransomware
The threat group, first identified in June, focuses solely on data exfiltration and subsequent extortion, and…
Crypto-Exchange BitMart to Pay Users for $200M Theft
BitMart confirmed it had been drained of ~$150 million in cryptocurrency assets, but a blockchain security…
Are You Guilty of These 8 Network-Security Bad Practices?
Tony Lauro, director of Security Technology & Strategy at Akamai, discusses VPNs, RDP, flat networks, BYOD…
What Are Your Top Cloud Security Challenges? Threatpost Poll
We want to know what your biggest cloud security concerns and challenges are, and how your…
‘Double-Extortion’ Ransomware Damage Skyrockets 935%
Startling triple-digit growth is fueled by easy criminal access to corporate networks and RaaS tools, an…
Planned Parenthood Breach Opens Patients to Follow-On Attacks
Cyberattackers made off with addresses, insurance information, dates of birth, and most worryingly, clinical information, such…
Lloyd’s Carves Out Cyber-Insurance Exclusions for State-Sponsored Attacks
The insurer won’t pay for ‘acts of cyber-war’ or nation-state retaliation attacks. Fallout from nation-state…
Panasonic’s Data Breach Leaves Open Questions
Cyberattackers had unfettered access to the technology giant’s file server for four months. Consumer electronics giant…