DETROIT - Researchers have revealed a never-before-seen piece of cross-platform malware that has infected a wide range of Linux and Windows devices, including small office routers, FreeBSD boxes, and large enterprise servers. Black Lotus Labs, the research arm of security firm Lumen, is calling the malware Chaos, a word that repeatedly appears in function names,
DETROIT - Successful cyberattacks can cause significant financial losses and harm to businesses. According to the recent findings by the Atlas VPN team, 37 percent of companies lose over $100,000 per cyberattack on average. Besides the financial damages, businesses also ruin their reputation, lose corporate information, and experience disruption of partner operations. After a successful
LANSING - State of Michigan Chief Security Officer Jayson Cavendish joins Matt and Mike on MITech TV to provide a deep dive into the Michigan Cyber Summit scheduled for Oct. 27 at the Suburban Collection in Novi. He also announces several cybersecurity awards the state has received for its outstanding cybersecurity program that keeps the
ANN ARBOR - David Behen, the former Michigan Chief Information Officer who created the Michigan Cyber Summit along with former Gov. Rick Snyder in 2011, joins MITech TV to talk about why it was done and where it is in October, when the Summit returns on Oct. 27 at the Surburban Showplace in Novi as
LONDON United Kingdom - Nearly a quarter of businesses have suffered a ransomware attack, with a fifth occurring in the past 12 months, according to new report. The Hornetsecurity 2022 Ransomware Report, which surveyed over 2,000 IT leaders, revealed that 24% have been victims of a ransomware attack, with 20 percent of attacks happening in
ANN ARBOR - October is Cyber Security Awareness Month. Joining us last week for the ITC Energy Report was Matt Kurpinski, VP, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for ITC. Matt discussed why Cyber Security is so important to ITC and what businesses can do to become more Cyber Smart. In this video interview, he
DETROIT - State-sponsored cyberattacks are carried out to espionage secret government data, disrupt services or identify and exploit national infrastructure vulnerabilities. According to the data collected by the Atlas VPN team, Russia and China sponsored over 50 cyberattacks in 2022, with Ukraine being the most targeted country. The data is based on Council on Foreign
NORTH KOREA - Hackers backed by the North Korean government are weaponizing well-known pieces of open source software in an ongoing campaign that has already succeeded in compromising "numerous" organizations in the media, defense and aerospace, and IT services industries, Microsoft said on Thursday. ZINC—Microsoft's name for a threat actor group also called Lazarus, which
DETROIT - During a recent investigation of a series of cyber intrusions into an unnamed high-value target, threat intelligence researchers with SentinelOne’s SentinelLabs team discovered nearly 10 hacking groups associated with China and Iran. This isn’t necessarily new when dealing with significant targets, sometimes referred to as a “magnet of threats” in cybersecurity, as they
WASHINGTON DC - The National Security Agency and CISA have issued guidance on how to secure operational technology and industrial control systems part of U.S. critical infrastructure. The joint advisory shares info on all the steps used by malicious actors to compromise IT-enabled OT and ICS assets which provide a larger attack surface and highlights
