Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center released an advisory on February 19, 2025, providing information on Ghost ransomware activity.
According to the advisory, “Ghost actors conduct these widespread attacks targeting and compromising organizations with outdated versions of software and firmware on their…
Unfortunately, I’ve had unpleasant dealings with the Phobos ransomware group. My interactions with Phobos have been fodder for a good story when I educate client employees on recent cyber-attacks to prevent them from becoming victims. The story highlights how these ransomware groups, including Phobos, are sophisticated criminal organizations with managerial hierarchy. They use common slang…
Soon after the Chinese generative artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek emerged to compete with ChatGPT and Gemini, it was forced offline when “large-scale malicious attacks” targeted its servers. Speculation points to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
Security researchers reported that DeepSeek “left one of its databases exposed on the internet, which could have allowed malicious…
On January 22, 2025, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint advisory related to previous vulnerabilities in the Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance, including an administrative bypass, a SQL injection, and remote code execution vulnerabilities – previously listed as CVE-2024-8963, CVE-2024-9379, CVE-2024-8190 and CVE-2024-9380.
The alert…
Despite bipartisan support for banning TikTok – essentially spyware presenting a national security threat from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – in the United States (as done by India) and the Supreme Court’s upholding of the law as constitutional and requiring the app to go dark, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) during…
Adobe recently issued a patch for a high-severity vulnerability for ColdFusion versions 2023.11 and 2021.17 and earlier; according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), “an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access files or directories that are outside of the restricted directory set by the application. This could lead to the disclosure…
According to Cyberscoop, the cyber gang Cl0p “has claimed responsibility for attacks tied to vulnerabilities in software made by Cleo, an Illinois-based IT company that sells various types of enterprise software.” The gang claimed responsibility for the attacks on its website. The vulnerabilities affect Cleo’s products LexiCom, VLTrader, and Harmony. Cleo reportedly services approximately…
My home state of Rhode Island may be the smallest in the union, but it has taken on a significant initiative implementing the Protective Domain Name Service (PDNS) in all 64 public school districts. PDNS, an initiative launched by the White House Office of the National Cyber Director, assists K-12 schools with preventing “ransomware and…
According to statements by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the People’s Republic of China-backed (PRC) hacking group Salt Typhoon, which attacked telecommunications providers last month, is still infiltrating the providers and it is “impossible for us to predict a time frame on when we’ll have full eviction.” One reason is that the hackers…
