Latest News: Cybersecurity

The White House released a reformed National Cyber Strategy on March 2nd to combat the rise in cyberattacks ravaging health, federal, and private infrastructure across the United States. The cyberspace defense plan aims to pin the responsibility of online protection on private companies rather than

The City of Oakland, California, has declared a state of emergency after a ransomware attack hit its computer systems. The attack was discovered on February 8, but the emergency was only brought into effect several days after the cyberattack was confirmed. The local government has not revealed the

The notorious hacktivist group Killnet, known for its close ties with the Russian government, has launched a cyber offensive against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). A full-blown distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack disrupted several NATO communication channels that were being

Instances of “malvertising” have spiked significantly over the last few months, to the point where downloading software via Google poses a high risk. Cybercriminals have been using Google Ads to push fake download pages for popular software to the top of Google search results. The alarm was

Check Point Research has found that ChatGPT, the AI chatbot created by OpenAI, poses several cybersecurity risks. Since its release in November, Check Point has been experimenting with ChatGPT and researching its possible cybersecurity implications. In their tests with the software, they

A large-scale ransomware attack has impacted thousands of organizations worldwide, according to Italy's National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN). The hackers exploited a two-year-old vulnerability in VMware ESXi servers, targeting servers across Europe and North America. Roberto Baldoni, the Director