The joint signatories who issued the guidance supported calls for industry-standard encryption as a minimum requirement and welcomed the development and implementation of end-to-end encryption.

UMass Memorial Health is the latest large healthcare network to report an email phishing incident that potentially compromised hundreds of thousands of individuals' protected health information.

The disruption at the fuel stations, which lasted a few hours, was caused by a cyberattack against the petrol distribution computer system, IRNA said, citing Abul-Hassan Firouzabadi, secretary of the Supreme Council to Regulate Virtual Space in Iran.

The breach likely affects more than 2 million people whose usernames at minimum were leaked, says TJ Horner, a software engineer and security expert who has analyzed the data.

Thingiverse, a site for sharing user-created digital design files, has reportedly leaked a 36GB backup file that contains 228,000 unique email addresses and other personally identifiable information.

The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Center has published an updated guidance for employees using their personal devices for work, amid a prolonged work-from-home setting.

Nonprofit data protection industry body Data Security Council of India (DSCI) has issued an advisory on a file-encrypting virus that is likely spread via spam emails, phishing, and malicious URLs.

The Tamil Nadu state government's Public Department was the victim of a ransomware attack on Sept. 18-19, Neeraj Mittal, principal secretary at the state's IT department, confirmed to IANS.

The little-known ransomware group has been pursuing a novel strategy to pressure victims into paying: Get journalists to try and name the businesses they've hit, to help pressure them into paying.

Version 2.1.59 of elFinder includes patches for the flaws. Researchers portray the five flaws in the chain as "innocuous bugs" that can be combined to gain arbitrary code execution.