The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has been slapped with a $10 million penalty due to its subsidiaries' failure to promptly report a cyber intrusion to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

In 2023, Kaspersky's findings revealed a notable surge in global mobile banking trojan assaults on Android users, marking a 33% increase from previous years. Additionally, cryptocurrency-related phishing activities experienced a significant uptick.

In a recent alarming development, the US Department of Health has issued a stern warning to hospitals across the nation about a new wave of cyber threats targeting their IT help desks. The advisory comes amidst growing concerns over the vulnerability of healthcare institutions to malicious cyber activities.

ABN Amro has issued a warning to its customers regarding a potential risk to their personal information following a ransomware attack on one of its suppliers. This incident has raised concerns about data security and the protection of sensitive information.

For around four years, Forest Blizzard (also known as Fancy Bear or APT28) has utilized a custom tool targeting a specific vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler service (CVE-2022-38028). Named GooseEgg, this tool enables hackers to execute remote code, install backdoors, and steal credentials by granting them SYSTEM-level permissions.

According to a recent webcast by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), there's a concerning trend of increasing vulnerability to cyberattacks within the U.S. power grids. The number of potential weak points in both virtual and physical infrastructure is rising, with approximately 60 new susceptibilities identified each day. NERC executives noted that these vulnerabilities, which are areas in software or hardware prone to exploitation by cyber criminals, expanded from 21,000-22,000 at the close of 2022 to a range of 23,000-24,000 last year.

Ascension hospitals in Michigan and across the United States were recently subjected to a disruptive cyberattack, prompting a significant impact on their computer networks and clinical operations. As a result, the nonprofit health system, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, advised its business partners to sever online connections to its network in response to the incident.

UnitedHealth Group expects the cyberattack on its Change Healthcare unit to cost up to $1.6 billion this year but maintains its 2024 earnings forecast, indicating a less severe impact than anticipated.

Cybersecurity experts and insurance professionals are issuing warnings about the escalating utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) tools by cybercriminals and nation-state cyber operators.

Visa is rolling out an innovative AI solution to assess risk levels of transactions in real-time, aiming to thwart enumeration attacks facilitated by automated scripts and botnets.

A recently issued report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reveals that financial service enterprises have endured significant losses totaling $12 billion over the past twenty years due to cyber assaults.

Last month, a federal agency responsible for cybersecurity found itself targeted in a hacking incident, leading to the shutdown of two critical computer systems, according to a spokesperson for the agency and sources familiar with the matter speaking to CNN.