According to his statement, town employees in September received legitimate emails from the vendor to discuss issues processing payments. But, unbeknownst to the town, the cybercriminals had compromised some town employee user accounts and were monitoring email correspondence.
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Rural hospitals keep getting attacked by cybercriminals. Microsoft and Google are working to fix that | CNN Business
The nation’s roughly 1,800 rural community hospitals are among the most vulnerable to dangerous ransomware attacks because they often lack IT security resources and cybersecurity-trained staff.
8 Best PuTTY Alternatives for SSH Client Connections
PuTTY is just like the translator that bridges the information gap. This software is a handy tool when it comes to establishing an SSH client connection path, which is eventually necessary for file transfers and system management.
Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered
Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a source code editor published by Microsoft and used by many professional software developers worldwide.
Crooks plant backdoor in software used by courtrooms around the world | Ars Technica
A software maker serving more than 10,000 courtrooms throughout the world hosted an application update containing a hidden backdoor that maintained persistent communication with a malicious website, researchers reported Thursday, in the latest episode of a supply-chain attack
Teslas Can Still Be Stolen With a Cheap Radio Hack—Despite New Keyless Tech | WIRED
For at least a decade, a car theft trick known as a “relay attack” has been the modern equivalent of hot-wiring: a cheap and relatively easy technique to steal hundreds of models of vehicles.
Rise of zero-day exploits reshape security recommendations | CSO Online
With zero-day attacks rapidly eclipsing exploits of known flaws, CISOs face the specter of having to switch up their security strategies in favor of post-exploitation response.