cyberattack
Immediate AI risks and tomorrow’s dangers
“At the most basic level, AI has given malicious attackers superpowers,” Mackenzie Jackson, developer and security advocate at GitGuardian, told the audience last …
ALPHV/BlackCat threatens to leak data stolen in Change Healthcare cyberattack
The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the cyberattack that targeted Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (UHG), causing disruption to its …
Battery maker Varta halts production after cyberattack
German battery manufacturer Varta was forced to shut down its IT systems and stop production as a result of a cyberattack. The Varta cyberattack The cyberattack occurred on …
Rise in cyberwarfare tactics fueled by geopolitical tensions
In this Help Net Security interview, Matt Shelton, Head of Threat Research and Analysis at Google Cloud, discusses the latest Threat Horizons Report, which provides …
Integrating cybersecurity into vehicle design and manufacturing
In this Help Net Security interview, Yaron Edan, CISO at REE Automotive, discusses the cybersecurity landscape of the automotive industry, mainly focusing on electric and …
Hacking the flow: The consequences of compromised water systems
In this Help Net Security video, Andy Thompson, Offensive Cybersecurity Research Evangelist at CyberArk, discusses the dire consequences of hacking water systems and why their …
Paying ransoms is becoming a cost of doing business for many
Today’s pervasive cyberattacks are forcing the majority of companies to pay ransoms and break their ‘do not pay’ policies, with data recovery deficiencies compounding the …
NIS2 Directive raises stakes for security leaders
In this Help Net Security interview, Roland Palmer, VP Global Operations Center at Sumo Logic, discusses key challenges and innovations of the NIS2 Directive, aiming to …
Proactive cybersecurity: A strategic approach to cost efficiency and crisis management
In this Help Net Security interview, Stephanie Hagopian, VP of Security at CDW, discusses offensive strategies in the face of complex cyberattacks and the role of the …
AI expected to increase volume, impact of cyberattacks
All types of cyber threat actor are already using artificial intelligence (AI) to varying degrees, UK National Cyber Security Centre’s analysts say, and predict that AI …
Organizations invest more in data protection but recover less
92% of organizations will increase 2024 data protection spend, to achieve cyber resilience amidst continued threats of ransomware and cyberattacks, according to Veeam …
Why cyberattacks mustn’t be kept secret
No company is immune to cyberattacks, but when the inevitable happens, too many companies still try to maintain a wall of silence. In fact, over half of security professionals …
Featured news
Resources
Don't miss
- Digital executive protection is a strategic imperative for CEOs
- OWASP’s subtractive security project measures the attack paths you erased
- Analysts got 19 minutes back every hour in Stellar Cyber’s agentic auto triage trials
- Attackers exploit N-able N-central flaw to reach managed endpoints (CVE-2026-18577)
- KindaRails2Shell threatens Ruby on Rails apps (CVE-2026-66066)