On October 27th, Lockbit claimed to have breached Boeing and threatened to leak a massive amount of sensitive data. Three days later, the threat group removed the aircraft company`s name from the victim list. At first, hackers posted a message on their data leak site that said: Sensitive data was exfiltrated and ready to be […]

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Canada’s largest public library system reported a cyberattack that took down its website, member services pages, and limited access to its digital collections. The Toronto Public Library provides more than 12 million items across 100 branches to more than 1.2 million members. Saturday afternoon, the company reported that it was experiencing technical difficulties with online […]

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By Shira Landau, Editor-in-Chief, CyberTalk.org EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Halloween is a widely celebrated holiday in the U.S. Seventy-three percent of Americans intend to celebrate Halloween this year, and U.S. consumers are expected to spend roughly $4.1 billion on dress-up costumes alone. While the holiday has dark historic origins, it has largely evolved into a festive celebration that focuses on […]

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, a newly discovered malware has compromised “secure” USB drives, enabling theft of information from government endpoints. Called TetrisPhantom, the malware is believed to have operated covertly for several years. If USB drives seem old-school, government organizations still frequently use these removable drives in order to securely store and […]

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Separation of privilege is splitting up tasks and assigning rights to different parts of a system. It means that user privileges are segmented between various users and accounts, but you can also apply it to applications, system sub-components, tasks, and processes. This means that different persons can run various parts of the system. Each of them […]

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