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The ransomware attack, affecting OT systems, resulted in some of WestRock's facilities lagging in production levels.

Remote work continues to fueling a spike in phishing and cyberattacks, particularly in the U.S. When it comes to paying the ransom in a ransomware attack, demands are on the rise. Yet, many companies that paid the ransom failed to receive a decryption key, in a survey issued Monday. In fact, pandemic-themed phishing scams, a sustained onslaught of ransomware attacks and the rise of a remote global workforce all colluded to make the last 12 months particularly brutal for information-security professionals, according to the report. Proofpoint’s State of the Phish report for 2021 surveyed 600 ...

minute read Share this article: In a unique attack, cybercriminals locally install an extension to manipulate data in internal web applications that the victims have access to. Cybercriminals have been using a novel approach to exfiltrate data that involves directly injecting malicious Google Chrome extensions onto victims’ Windows machines via the abuse of Google’s cloud synching function. The goal of the recently-identified campaign is to manipulate data in internal web applications that the victims have access to, according to an analysis. According to Bojan Zdrnja, writin...

minute read Share this article: Claroty reports that adversaries, CISOs and researchers have all turned their attention to finding critical security bugs in ICS networks. It’s on: Adversaries, CISOs and researchers are all simultaneously involved in a frantic race to find cybersecurity vulnerabilities hiding within industrial networks, according to the latest Biannual ICS Risk and Vulnerability report from Claroty. The report analyzed all publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in ICS networks in the second half of 2020 and found a nearly 33 percent increase in ICS disclosures over ...

An CRSF-to-stored-XSS security bug plagues 50,000 'Contact Form 7' Style users.