Incident Response

The largest regulated water utility company in the U.S. said ‘unauthorized activity’ was detected last week.

After shutting down its systems on September 20, MoneyGram issued an email update five days later stating that it has since restored most of its operations with the assistance of CrowdStrike and other third-party cybersecurity experts, as well as U.S. law enforcement.

Michigan's Wayne County, which is the state's largest, had many of its government offices disrupted and all of its government sites taken down following a cyberattack against certain internal systems this week.

Such record-breaking intrusion has been thwarted alongside more than 100 other hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks of similar intensity that have been launched against organizations in the telecommunications, financial services, and internet industries as part of a campaign that began early last month.

This episode of Paul Security Weekly features John Hammond, a senior security researcher from Huntress, discussing malware analysis. Hammond dives into the analysis of Ocean Lotus attacks, highlighting the use of stealthy techniques like alternate data streams and DLL side-loading. The conversation also touches on the challenges of combating attack...

Additional details regarding the extent or perpetrators of the breach were not provided but the French international news agency said that global news coverage had not been affected by the intrusion while noting an ongoing investigation into the incident alongside the French National Agency for IT Systems Security.

Major U.S. money transfer company MoneyGram had its services subjected to disruptions that have been ongoing since Friday following a cybersecurity issue that resulted in the takedown of certain systems.

Let’s talk about how regardless of your organizations data footprint being in the cloud or on prem, or if you’re a billion dollar organization or smaller, if the adversaries want in, they will find a way. Don’t fall victim because of bad cyber hygiene but instead work your experiences, your leadership, and train your people to limit exposure. Hear ...