Airport staff began turning on and testing systems for international and low-volume carriers, which are the most heavily impacted by the outage. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is heading into what officials described as the busiest Labor Day weekend travel period in the airport's history, as it continues to grapple with widespread system outages following a cyberattack. Airport officials said they expect more than 500,000 passengers over the next six days, in a Thursday media briefing. READ MORE...
The City of Columbus, Ohio, has filed a lawsuit against security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf, accusing him of illegally downloading and disseminating data stolen from the City's IT network and leaked by the Rhysida ransomware gang. Columbus, the capital and most populous (2,140,000) city in Ohio, suffered a ransomware attack on July 18, 2024, which caused various service outages and unavailability of email and IT connectivity between public agencies. READ MORE...
Oil and gas giant Halliburton has confirmed in a filing today to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that data was stolen in the recent attack linked to the RansomHub ransomware gang. The form 8-K filing mentions that an unauthorized third party accessed and exfiltrated sensitive information from Halliburton systems, and the company is now in the process of determining the exact scope of the breach. READ MORE...
Transport for London (TfL), the city's transport authority, is investigating an ongoing cyberattack that has yet to impact its services. The agency says that, for the moment, there is no evidence that customer information was compromised during the incident. "We are currently dealing with an ongoing cyber security incident," TfL's Customer Information Team warned customers over email earlier and in a statement published online today. READ MORE...
In this Help Net Security interview, Tim West, Director of Threat Intelligence and Outreach at WithSecure, discusses Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) with a focus on how these cybercriminal operations are adapting to increased competition, shifting structures, and a fragmented ecosystem. West talks about the implications of these changes for targeted industries, particularly engineering and manufacturing, and examines ransomware actors' growing reliance on dual-use tools. READ MORE...
Two security updates released over the past week for the Chrome browser resolve eight vulnerabilities, including six high-severity bugs reported by external researchers. Last week, Google announced a Chrome 128 update that rolled out with patches for four externally reported high-severity memory safety flaws. Three of the security defects, the internet giant revealed in an advisory, affect the browser's V8 JavaScript engine. They include two type confusion issues and a heap buffer overflow. READ MORE...
A spate of major ransomware attacks in Southeast Asia in the first half of this year was just the beginning. Companies and government agencies in Southeast Asia - especially Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Indonesia - have experienced a significant increase in attacks, outpacing the rate of ransomware growth in European nations, according to telemetry data from Trend Micro. READ MORE...