Medibank Refuses to Pay Ransom Despite the Leaking Threats
Australia’s Medibank Private Ltd continues to refuse to pay a ransom of an undisclosed amount to cybercriminals, despite the hackers’ purported threats to expose the stolen data on the dark web. As Australia’s largest health insurer faces a potential class action after 9.7 million current and past clients’ data was compromised, a ransomware group has […]
Ransomware Gangs Exploit Log4Shell flaw in VMware Horizon in Cyber Attacks
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a United States federal agency, has warned that hackers still pose a significant cybersecurity threat, as threat actors (some of whom are backed by states) are targeting VMware Horizon and Unified Access Gateway (UAG) servers using the Log4Shell remote code execution vulnerability. First discovered and disclosed in 2021, […]
Log4j vulnerability to affect millions of devices: US Gov
Top US government cybersecurity officials have cautioned that Log4j vulnerability will affect millions of devices. Advanced hackers will have a field day with the vulnerabilities, ZDNet reported quoting top US government officials. This vulnerability is one of the most serious that I’ve seen in my entire career, if not the most serious,” Jen Easterly, director […]