Key Takeaways: Springfield Public Schools has confirmed that the cyberattack that disrupted district operations and closed schools for a week involved student and staff information, expanding the incident from an availability crisis into a potential data-breach response. SPS officials disclosed Tuesday evening tha
Key Takeaways: The number attached to a ransom demand tends to dominate the conversation after an attack. It is immediate, easy to understand and potentially dramatic. Yet for many businesses, that payment is nowhere near the largest expense. Research from IBM and Verizon illustrates the gap. IBM’s Cost of a Data
Key Takeaways: CISA has confirmed that ransomware operators are exploiting CVE-2026-59310, a critical VMware vCenter Server vulnerability that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution. The development raises the stakes for enterprises that have not yet deployed the security updates Broadcom released in July
Key Takeaways: A ransomware incident affecting Avelogic’s SmartHRMS platform has disrupted payroll operations across mosques and madrasahs overseen by the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS). Accounting personnel temporarily lost access to the human resources system and had to process salaries manually,
Key Takeaways: A Chinese-speaking threat actor tracked as Red Heron rapidly turned a newly disclosed Gitea vulnerability into a multinational intrusion campaign, according to research published by Acronis Threat Research Unit. The operation reached beyond repository theft, giving Red Heron access to credentials, a
Key Takeaways: Internet-facing VPN appliances, firewalls, routers and remote-access systems remain under sustained attack, prompting HKCERT to urge organisations to treat software patching as the start of remediation rather than its final step. The warning reflects a basic problem with network-edge security. Apply
Key Takeaways: 45Drives has expanded SnapShield with Data Exfiltration Protection and centralized management, extending the product from ransomware encryption detection into broader storage-level defense. Announced September 14, the additions address a basic shift in ransomware economics: attackers increasingly st
Key Takeaways: The latest findings from the threat intelligence arm of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd add another warning signal for businesses already contending with ransomware, phishing and attacks against unpatched systems. Weekly attack volumes rose 4 per cent month on month, indicating that the underl
Key Takeaways: Biofile’s finding that healthcare institutions account for six in 10 cyberattacks recorded in Colombia puts a stark number on a risk hospital executives have been watching for years. Based on a measurement analyzed from the IBM X-Force index, the report identifies medical information as a particular
Key Takeaways: EasyEquities, Cell C and Bidvest Bank have alerted customers to potential data exposure after cybersecurity incidents affecting third-party services connected to their operations. The closely timed notifications, issued over the same weekend, suggest the three cases share a common or closely related