The FBI published a flash alert to warn of the activity of the Ranzy Locker ransomware that had already compromised tens of US companies. The FBI published a flash alert to warn of Ranzy Locker ransomware operations that had already compromised at least 30 US companies this year. The gang has been active since at least 2020, threat actors hit organizations from various industries. “Unknown cyber criminals using Ranzy Locker ransomware had compromised more than…

An American university is notifying thousands of former and current students that their personal information may have been compromised during a recent data breach. In a security notice issued October 25, the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) attributed the breach to an unpatched vulnerability in software provided by a third-party vendor, Atlassian Corporation Plc. Atlassian is an Australian software company headquartered in Sydney that develops products for software developers, project managers and other software development teams.  CU…

An American university is notifying thousands of former and current students that their personal information may have been compromised during a recent data breach. In a security notice issued October 25, the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) attributed the breach to an unpatched vulnerability in software provided by a third-party vendor, Atlassian Corporation Plc. Atlassian is an Australian software company headquartered in Sydney that develops products for software developers, project managers and other software development teams.  CU…

Members of the Coalition Against Stalkerware are helping law enforcement agencies to investigate cases involving digital stalking. The Coalition was created in 2019 by ten founding partners: Avira, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), European Network for the Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence (WWP EN), G DATA Cyber Defense, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes, the United States–based National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), NortonLifeLock, Operation Safe Escape, and WEISSER RING. Earlier this week, Coalition members NNEDV and Kaspersky joined forces with INTERPOL…

Microsoft has announced plans to fill 250,000 cybersecurity roles by working with community colleges across the United States. As part of the recruitment drive, the American multinational technology corporation said today that it intends to invest millions of dollars in education and teacher training over the next three years. As of January 2021, there were 936 public community colleges and 73 independent community colleges registered with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) in the…