Vista Equity Partners and KnowBe4 have struck a deal to take the security awareness giant private for $4.6 billion in this week's second massive security acquisition. The agreement comes after the Austin, Texas-based investment firm upped its offer by $380 million, or nearly 4%, to $24.90 per share.
Patient portals, electronic prescriptions and some other IT systems are still affected at an undisclosed number of CommonSpirit Health hospitals and clinics in several states more than one week after a cyber incident hit the multistate hospital chain.
Both internal and external fraud are expected to grow as economic conditions worsen. Fraud education expert Andi McNeal shares insights on what anti-fraud practitioners are expecting over the next year, the types of fraud to watch out for and how to mitigate fraud risks.
Self-proclaimed Russian hacktivist group KillNet took responsibility for distributed denial-of-service attacks launched against the public websites of several U.S. airports. It emerged in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and in May tried to stop online voting for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Business Email Compromise (BEC) losses are up 51% year-over-year according to the FBI Crime Report. Additionally, Ransomware is surging, with more than double the number of incidents reported. It takes a defense-in-depth approach to reduce the risk of these popular threats. By understanding the current threats and...
Australian fruit and vegetable supplier Costa Group says it was subjected to a malicious and sophisticated phishing attack in August that resulted in unauthorized access to its servers. The company, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, says that the attack occurred on Aug. 21.
A Georgia-based cancer testing laboratory has reported to federal regulators a phishing breach affecting the sensitive information of nearly 245,000 individuals. It is the lab's second hacking breach affecting hundreds of thousands of individuals reported over the last six months.
Count Log4Shell among Chinese hackers' favorite vulnerabilities, federal agencies say in a compilation of top exploits used by Beijing for state-sponsored cyber theft and espionage. Chinese state-sponsored hacking remains "one of the largest and most dynamic threats," warn the FBI, NSA and CISA.
Crypto exchange Binance restored operations on its BSC Token Hub smart contract early Friday, hours after a $568.6 million hack. It upgraded the vulnerable contract in a new version and shared plans for potential measures to address this incident and increase security measures.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors examine the story of a Maryland couple facing charges for giving military medical records to Russia, the sentencing of a former Seattle tech worker for her massive Capital One hack, and why David Hatfield resigned as co-CEO of cloud security vendor Lacework.
Crypto exchange Binance paused its smart contract platform Binance Smart Chain after a hacker exploited an internal verification vulnerability to steal cryptocurrency from its cross-chain bridge. Binance has acknowledged a theft of at least $100 million; PeckShield says hackers stole $586 million.
What if you were hired for an office job but ended up negotiating with cybercriminals? There aren’t many rules around ransomware, but this is a story about one rule that was definitely broken. By the end, the path to the truth led to a place on the other side of the world where no one wanted to be.
Police arrested a teenager in his suburban Sydney home for allegedly attempting to extort AU$2,000 from victims of the Optus data breach. The unnamed 19-year-old allegedly threatened to conduct financial crimes using the information of 93 individuals unless he received a payout.
Canadian Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins received a 20 year prison sentence from a U.S. judge based in Florida after copping to four felonies stemming from a stint as an affiliate of the NetWalker ransomware-as-a-service gang. "This is Jesse James meets the 21st century," said Judge William F. Jung.
A claim Wednesday by high-profile security researcher Kevin Beaumont that video doorbell manufacturer Ring was experiencing a security issue sent Twitter atwitter. Amazon says some users experienced logon issues due to a back-end system error made during a routine system update.
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