We've seen an ugly trend recently of tech news stories and cybersecurity firms trumpeting claims of ransomware attacks on companies large and small, apparently based on little more than the say-so of the ransomware gangs themselves. Such coverage is potentially quite harmful and plays deftly into the hands of organized crime.

Often the rationale behind couching these events as newsworthy is that the attacks involve publicly traded companies or recognizable brands, and that investors and the public have a right to know. But absent any additional information from the victim company or their partners who may be affected by the attack, these kinds of stories and blog posts look a great deal like ambulance chasing and sensationalism.

By Zara Khan

EvilQuest ransomware also impersonates Google Software Update Program...

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Malware used to download WastedLocker on target networks was hosted on legit websites belonging to one parent company, Symantec says.

Follow-up sandbox research confirms Aisino knew about the malware in its tax software, though it's still unclear whether it was culpable.

Backdoors, cryptominers, and ransomware were the most widely detected threats by the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)'s intrusion prevention system EINSTEIN.

Backdoors, cryptominers, and ransomware were the most widely detected threats by the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)'s intrusion prevention system EINSTEIN.

A high-severity flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to potentially gain administrative privileges for Cisco small business switches.

The malware is using DNS tunneling to exfiltrate payment-card data.

A bogus installer for Little Snitch carries a ransomware hitchhiker.

By Sudais Asif

China for long has been persecuting Uyghurs Muslims on the pretext of countering extremist ideologies...

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