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Ransomware attack: What we know about the pipeline cyberattack: How it happened, who is responsible and more CNN 5 days ago By Zachary Cohen, Geneva Sands and Matt Egan, CNN © Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg/Getty Images FILE: Oil infrastructure at the Colonial Pipeline Co. Pelham junction and tank farm in Pelham, Alabama, U.S., on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. Fuel suppliers are growing increasingly nervous about the possibility of gasoline and diesel shortages across the eastern U.S. almost two days after a cyberattack knocked out a massive pipeline. Colonial Pipeline said on Sunday,...

Hear Biden's response to Colonial Pipeline attack 02:36 (CNN)The White House said Monday there are no issues with fuel supply as officials worked urgently to ascertain the scope and fallout of a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, which supplies much of the eastern United States its gasoline -- an incident that laid bare vulnerabilities in the country's aging energy infrastructure. President Joe Biden and senior White House officials said the administration was working closely with Colonial Pipeline to mitigate the effects of the ransomware attack and subsequent shutdown of the pipel...

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2 hours ago IT Security Teams Face Unprecedented Challenges from Record-setting Cyberattacks, Skilled Personnel Shortages, and Low Security Awareness Across the Workforce ANNAPOLIS, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CyberEdge Group, a leading research and marketing firm serving the security industry’s top vendors, today announced the availability of its eighth annual Cyberthreat Defense Report (CDR). The award-winning CDR has rapidly become the de facto standard for assessing organizations’ security posture, for gauging perceptions of information technology (IT) secu...

Source: Microsoft, Bleeping Computer Ransomware-wielding attackers have begun to exploit a serious proxy-logon flaw in unpatched versions of Microsoft Exchange running on premises, Microsoft reports. Hackers have exploited the flaw to access vulnerable servers, crypto-lock files and demand a ransom from victims in return for the promise of a decryption tool. News of the attack campaign follows Microsoft on March 2 issuing emergency patches to fix four zero-day flaws in Microsoft Exchange, which is one of the most widely used pieces of IT infrastructure in the world. "Because we are aware of a...