Tietoevry ransomware attack causes outages for Swedish firms, cities

January 21, 2024 at 03:15PM Finnish IT services provider Tietoevry faced a ransomware attack affecting a Swedish data center, impacting its cloud hosting customers. The attack was isolated, but caused widespread outages for multiple Swedish businesses, including the largest cinema chain and government agencies. The ransomware gang Akira is allegedly responsible, with cases of their … Read more

Rackspace racks up $12M bill in ransomware raid recovery

November 16, 2023 at 04:28PM Rackspace has revealed that its expenses from a ransomware attack last year have now reached $12 million. The attack, initially described as a security incident, disrupted email services for thousands of customers. Rackspace attributed the intrusion to the Play crew, who exploited a critical Exchange bug. The company incurred costs … Read more

Confidence in File Upload Security is Alarmingly Low. Why?

November 7, 2023 at 07:36AM The OPSWAT 2023 Web Application Security report reveals that while 75% of organizations have modernized their infrastructure and 78% have increased their security budgets, only 2% are confident in their security posture. The shift to cloud-based and containerized web applications presents new security challenges, particularly in file upload security. The … Read more