The Monument to Party Founding is a monument in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. (Getty Images) FBI, CISA, Treasury: North Korean hackers taking aim at health care with Maui ransomware The ransomware has previously received little public scrutiny. Jul 6, 2022 By Tim Starks
(Getty Images) CISA to brief critical infrastructure companies about urgent new Log4j vulnerability Log4j is a widely-used open-source logging tool popular in apps including Minecraft, Apple Cloud, Cloudflare and Twitter. Dec 13, 2021 By Tonya Riley
European Union flags in front of the European Parliament in Brussels. (Getty Images) EU sanctions Russian intelligence, Chinese nationals and a North Korean front company for alleged hacks It's the first restrictive measure out of the EU in connection with cyber activities. Jul 30, 2020 By Jeff Stone
Windows 7 support will end on January, 14, 2020. (Christiaan Colen) Windows 7 end-of-life is coming. How much should you worry? Ultimately, it is a conversation about risk, and more specifically, how much risk is an organization willing to assume. Nov 26, 2019 By Ellen Sundra
(Pexels) BlueKeep is back. For now, attackers are just using it for cryptomining The hacking has finally begun, and so far, it’s gone off with a whimper, not a bang. Nov 4, 2019 By Sean Lyngaas
(Getty) Microsoft patches two critical vulnerabilities comparable to BlueKeep Like BlueKeep and the bug involved in WannaCry, the new vulnerabilities are "wormable." Aug 13, 2019 By Sean Lyngaas
Marcus Hutchins on a visit to Washington, D.C. (@MalwareTechBlog, via Twitter) Marcus Hutchins, who stopped WannaCry’s spread, avoids prison time Hutchins’ case has resonated in the cybersecurity community as some reflect on whether society allows good hacking to cancel out the bad. Jul 26, 2019 By Sean Lyngaas
(Pexels) From exploits to honeypots: How the security community is preparing for BlueKeep’s moment of truth “Every CISO right now should have a plan already written down to deal with BlueKeep once the exploit starts surfacing." Jul 8, 2019 By Sean Lyngaas
(Pexels) After remote-code test, DHS sounds the alarm on BlueKeep Microsoft and the NSA already have sounded the alarm. DHS said it was able to use BlueKeep to execute remote code on a computer running Microsoft Windows… Jun 17, 2019 By Sean Lyngaas
(Pixabay) Microsoft patches critical vulnerability comparable to WannaCry The company says its seen no evidence the flaw has been exploited. May 15, 2019 By Shannon Vavra