North Korea's 'Stonefly' APT Swarms US Private Co's. for Profit
Source: Dark Reading
Despite a $10 million bounty on one member, APT45 is not slowing down, pivoting from intelligence gathering to extorting funds for Kim Jong-Un's regime. A well-known North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) has shifted its focus to targeting private companies in the US for financial gain.
Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps
Source: Bleeping Computer
During a distributed denial-of-service campaign targeting organizations in the financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, volumetric attacks peaked at 3.8 terabits per second, the largest publicly recorded to date. The assault consisted of a “month-long” barrage of more than 100 hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks flooding the network infrastructure with garbage data.
Over 4,000 Adobe Commerce, Magento shops hacked in CosmicSting attacks
Source: Bleeping Computer
Adobe Commerce and Magento online stores are being targeted in "CosmicSting" attacks at an alarming rate, with threat actors hacking approximately 5% of all stores. The CosmicSting vulnerability (CVE-2024-32102) is a critical severity information disclosure flaw; when chained with CVE-2024-2961, a security issue in glibc's iconv function, an attacker can achieve remote code execution on the target server.
Crucial Texas hospital system turning ambulances away after ransomware attack
Source: The Record
One of the largest hospitals in West Texas has been forced to divert ambulances after a ransomware attack shut down many of its systems last Thursday. The University Medical Center Health System in Lubbock confirmed on Friday that IT outages are being caused by a ransomware incident.
CISO Salary Surge: Fewer Job Changes, Bigger Paychecks for Experienced Cybersecurity Leaders
Source: Security Week
CISOs are getting paid more and moving less – and experience counts. Average annual compensation packages for these cybersecurity leaders is more than $550K; and ‘top’ CISOs’ earnings can be above $1 million a year.