NCSC CEO Lindy Cameron has warned UK businesses that ransomware “is the most immediate cyber threat” they face. During a speech at Chatham House’s cyber conference, Cameron made the remarks, marking one year since she was appointed head of the UK government agency. She cited numerous examples of the real-world damage caused by ransomware attacks in the past year. This includes the attack on Ireland’s Health Service Executive, which led to “months of disrupted appointments and services”…

Some 93% of global organizations have suffered a direct breach due to weaknesses in their supply chains over the past year, according to BlueVoyant. The cybersecurity services company polled 1200 IT and procurement leaders responsible for supply chain and cyber-risk management from global companies with 1,000+ employees to compile its report: Managing Cyber Risk Across the Extended Vendor Ecosystem. It revealed the average number of breaches experienced in the past 12 months grew from 2.7 in 2020…

Ukrainian law enforcers have arrested a suspected botnet herder responsible for controlling an automated network of around 100,000 compromised machines to launch DDoS and other attacks. The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) claimed the resident of Ivano-Frankivsk also used the botnet to launch spam campaigns, scan for vulnerabilities in websites to exploit, and brute-force users’ email passwords. He’s said to have found and communicated with customers for his services on encrypted channels like Telegram and closed underground…

Public clouds have done a phenomenal job at removing the friction of purchasing IT resources—which is great from a user perspective—but leads to massive overspending. The ability to easily scale up resources leads to forgotten instances that are never scaled back down, and limited visibility between teams leads to lack of accountability for excess spending and inefficiencies. With most organizations using two or more public clouds, there is even more complexity involved. Through several research studies, we’ve discovered that most organizations are just in the beginning stages of…