Cisco Warns of Massive Surge in Password-Spraying Attacks on VPNs
Source: Dark Reading
Cisco Talos this week warned of a massive increase in brute-force attacks targeting VPN services, SSH services, and Web application authentication interfaces. In its advisory, the company described the attacks as involving the use of generic and valid usernames to try and gain initial access to victim environments.
Sisense Breach Highlights Rise in Major Supply Chain Attacks
Source: Data Breach Today
Cybersecurity experts are raising the alarm about a surge in supply chain attacks targeting critical infrastructure sectors following a major breach at a business analytics firm that potentially exposed sensitive data belonging to global corporate giants.
Congress Asks What Went Wrong in Change Healthcare Attack
Source: Info Risk Today
Parent company UHG Is a no-show at hearing & faces data leak, attack costs of $1.6B. The aftershocks of the Change Healthcare cyberattack are still reverberating through the healthcare sector nearly 60 days into the recovery process. But on Tuesday, members of Congress and industry experts grappled with how to avoid a future replay - minus a key witness: UnitedHealth Group, parent company of Change Healthcare.
After XZ Utils, More Open-Source Maintainers Under Attack
Source: Data Breach Today
Major open-source software projects are warning that attempts at inserting backdoors throughout the open-source ecosystem could be rife after a hacker came within a hairsbreadth of succeeding with a low-key but widely used utility.
Frontier Communications shuts down systems after cyberattack
Source: Bleeping Computer
American telecom provider Frontier Communications is restoring systems after a cybercrime group breached some of its IT systems in a recent cyberattack. Frontier is a leading U.S. communications provider that provides gigabit Internet speeds over a fiber-optic network to millions of consumers and businesses across 25 states.