Tag: cybersecurity
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Accenture Buys Majority Stake in Dragos in $4.2B Deal
Deal Combines Dragos OT Threat Detection With runZero, NetRise. Accenture is acquiring a majority stake in Dragos and full ownership of runZero and NetRise in a $4.2 billion deal to build an end-to-end OT cybersecurity platform for power grids, water systems, manufacturing plants and other critical infrastructure operators. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Authorities disrupt Evil Corp’s SocGholish botnet
Cybersecurity firms, researchers and officials took down 106 servers and remediated nearly 15,000 sites that were infected with the malware. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/socgholish-malware-botnet-takedown-evilcorp/
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Accenture Buys Majority Stake in Dragos in $4.175B Deal
Deal Combines Dragos OT Threat Detection With runZero, NetRise. Accenture is acquiring a majority stake in Dragos and full ownership of runZero and NetRise in a $4.2 billion deal to build an end-to-end OT cybersecurity platform for power grids, water systems, manufacturing plants and other critical infrastructure operators. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Breach Roundup: ShinyHunters Leaks 26M MSG Records
Tags: attack, breach, cisa, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, email, leak, linux, ransomware, russia, supply-chainAlso, Arch Linux Attack, Estonia Quarantines Russian Emails, Joomla Flaw. This week, ShinyHunters leaked alleged Madison Square Garden data, a U.S. senator pressed CISA on regional staffing cuts, an Arch Linux supply-chain attack, Mackay Sugar began recovery from a ransomware attack, Novo Nordisk faced dueling breach claims – and more compelling cybersecurity news. First seen…
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MacBook Neo vs Windows Laptops for Cybersecurity Tasks
There is no one-size-fits-all cybersecurity laptop. We’ll examine real-world work scenarios, tool compatibility, and trade-offs that impact a security professional’s day-to-day work. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/macbook-neo-vs-windows-laptops-cybersecurity-tasks/
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MacBook Neo vs Windows Laptops for Cybersecurity Tasks
There is no one-size-fits-all cybersecurity laptop. We’ll examine real-world work scenarios, tool compatibility, and trade-offs that impact a security professional’s day-to-day work. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/macbook-neo-vs-windows-laptops-cybersecurity-tasks/
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Salesforce Data Thefts Continue via Klue App Compromise
Klue’s Battlecards is now the third integrated application that has been compromised to steal customers’ Salesforce data, and victims include Huntress, the cybersecurity vendor. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/salesforce-data-thefts-klue-app-compromise
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Nation-state rivals linked to majority of consequential attacks targeting critical UK sites
The nation’s top cybersecurity official warned that business leaders, authorities need to rethink how they protect critical infrastructure from state-sponsored adversaries. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/nation-state-rivals-linked-to-majority-of-consequential-attacks-targeting-c/823242/
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Accenture shells out $4.18B on three companies in big industrial cybersecurity push
The consulting giant’s majority stake in Dragos, along with the purchase runZero and NetRise, marks its first major push into operational technology software as AI-driven threats to critical infrastructure intensify. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/accenture-industrial-cybersecurity-acquisition-dragos-netrise-runzero/
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INC Ransomware Emerges as Major RaaS Threat in 2026 with 830+ Victims Since 2023
Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of INC from an nascent ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation to one of the most prolific cybercrime groups in 2026, claiming no less than 830 victims since August 2023.”The disruption of LockBit and the shutdown of BlackCat created opportunities for INC to expand as affiliates migrated to alternative ransomware operations,” Acronis…
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Cyberspace Locked in a Nation-State Contest, Says NCSC CEO
Richard Horne Seeks to Reframe Discussion of Cyber Exposure. Britain’s top cybersecurity official sought Wednesday to reframe digital defense as a contest against a constantly shifting opponent rather than a risk to be managed, calling today’s spate of breaches and hacking incidents the opening salvos of a future war. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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F5 issues outband patches for critical NGINX vulnerabilities
Cybersecurity company F5 has released out-of-band security updates to address multiple NGINX web server vulnerabilities, including two critical-severity flaws that could allow attackers to execute code on vulnerable systems. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/f5-issues-out-of-band-patches-for-critical-nginx-vulnerabilities/
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Windows Defender Vulnerability Exposed as RoguePlanet PoC Spreads Online
A newly disclosed Windows Defender vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-50656 and dubbed RoguePlanet, has raised concerns across the cybersecurity community after a working proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit was released before a security patch became available. The exploit was published on GitHub by security researcher Nightmare Eclipse on June 10, 2026, only hours after Microsoft issued its June Patch Tuesday updates. First seen…
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Massachusetts launches cybersecurity grant program for local governments and schools
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/massachusetts-launches-cybersecurity-grant-program-for-local-governments-and-schools
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AI is speeding up cybersecurity buying. MSSPs could win big
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/ai-driven-changes-in-cybersecurity-tech-buying-open-opportunities-for-mssps
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Major critical infrastructure disruptions are inevitable, acting CISA chief says
In recent years, the U.S. government has reoriented its cybersecurity strategy away from prevention and toward resilience. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cybersecurity-resilience-critical-infrastructure-cisa-nick-andersen/823166/
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EU grants Ukraine access to cybersecurity reserve for major attacks
As Kyiv takes steps toward formal accession to the EU, the bloc is integrating Ukraine with its pool of pre-approved cybersecurity incident response companies. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/ukraine-access-eu-cybersecurity-reserve
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AI isn’t solving cybersecurity workforce woes
More than half of cybersecurity professionals say they’re thinking about leaving the industry, according to a new report. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cybersecurity-workforce-ai-skills-shortage/823143/
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U.S. CISA adds Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor (JCE) flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor (JCE) flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-48907 (CVSS score of 10.0), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. >>A vulnerability in the JCE…
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UK critical infrastructure hit by 200 cyber incidents in a year, agency says
Head of National Cyber Security Centre says UK in ‘ongoing contest with capable adversaries’ and AI could add to threatThe UK’s critical national infrastructure has been hit by more than 200 cyber incidents over the past year and state-linked assailants were behind three-quarters of the attacks, according to the state cybersecurity body.Richard Horne, the chief…
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UK critical infrastructure hit by 200 cyber incidents in a year, agency says
Head of National Cyber Security Centre says UK in ‘ongoing contest with capable adversaries’ and AI could add to threatThe UK’s critical national infrastructure has been hit by more than 200 cyber incidents over the past year and state-linked assailants were behind three-quarters of the attacks, according to the state cybersecurity body.Richard Horne, the chief…
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Heimdal Survey: Executives Four Times More Confident About AI Risk Than the Teams Managing It
London, United Kingdom, June 17th, 2026, CyberNewswire New research from cybersecurity company Heimdal finds 29% of US executives say AI risk is under control, against 7% of the practitioners running it day-to-day. Across 1,000 IT professionals in the UK and US, AI adoption has outpaced security controls by roughly two to one. Heimdal today published…
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AI Threats and Alert Fatigue Challenge Cybersecurity Teams
Filigran survey at Infosecurity Europe 2026 reveals AI-powered attacks as the top concern, with false positives, alert fatigue and manual processes draining security teams First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-threats-alert-fatigue-challenge/
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CISA orders feds to patch max severity Joomla plugin flaw by Friday
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to patch a maximum-severity flaw in the Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor (JCE) plugin that is being actively exploited in the wild. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-orders-feds-to-patch-max-severity-joomla-plugin-flaw-by-friday/
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EU Security Experts to Support Ukrainian Organizations in Case of Cyber-Attacks
Ukraine has been added to the EU Cybersecurity Reserve, which provides incident response services against large-scale incidents First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ukraine-included-eu-cyber-reserve/
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NIS-2 und Cybersecurity – Informationssicherheit im Krankenhaus mehr als ein IT-Projekt
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/informationssicherheit-im-krankenhaus-mehr-als-ein-it-projekt-a-c237f17400ea58624d150215310f34cf/
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NIS-2 und Cybersecurity – Informationssicherheit im Krankenhaus mehr als ein IT-Projekt
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/informationssicherheit-im-krankenhaus-mehr-als-ein-it-projekt-a-c237f17400ea58624d150215310f34cf/
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NIS-2 und Cybersecurity – Informationssicherheit im Krankenhaus mehr als ein IT-Projekt
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/informationssicherheit-im-krankenhaus-mehr-als-ein-it-projekt-a-c237f17400ea58624d150215310f34cf/
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EdTech Faces a Cybersecurity Crisis: Data Breaches Surge
EdTech firms face rising cyberattacks as ShinyHunters and FulcrumSec target schools, exposing sensitive data and disrupting services. Resecurity (USA) warns the education technology (EdTech) sector has become a prime target for cybercriminals, as attacks against educational institutions and related platforms continue to escalate. Recent high-profile incidents, including attacks by groups such as ShinyHunters and FulcrumSec,…
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Ukraine can now tap EU cyber support during major attacks
Ukraine can now call on emergency cyber support from the European Union during large-scale cybersecurity incidents. The move follows a decision by the Council of the European … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/17/ukraine-eu-cybersecurity-reserve-support/