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SecurityWeek’s 2025 Ransomware Resilience & Recovery Summit took place on February 26th, as a fully immersive virtual event. All sessions are now available to watch on demand, and the virtual expo and technical resources are still available. We hope you can join us inside the virtual event center as we provide defenders with actionable data and best known methods for successfully limiting exposure to ransomware and data extortion attacks. Agenda Overview (See full agenda details) Fortifying Your Data Defenses – Rapid Recovery (Anthony Dutra, Technical Marketing Manager, Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Company) AI-Powered Cyber Resilience: Shifting the Focus from Protection…

My favorite part of my job is spending time with customers discussing their pain points, challenges, goals, and priorities. These discussions are most often enriching, fascinating, and mutually beneficial. As you might imagine, different customers have different topics that interest them, drive them, and that they are passionate about. One topic that comes up repeatedly, especially in the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) vertical is that of regulatory compliance and audit. Now, you might think that this is not particularly surprising, given that BFSI is one of the more tightly regulated verticals. What might be a bit surprising, however, is one particular pain…

The websites of dozens of major private and government organizations have been abused in a massive spam campaign that involves exploitation of a vulnerability affecting widely used virtual tour software. The attacks were observed recently by researcher Oleg Zaytsev who noticed that a Google search revealed what appeared to be adult content on the website of a major university in the US.  Additional analysis showed that the impacted website hosted a virtual tour powered by software made by Krpano. This software is affected by a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that has been exploited to lead users to shady websites…

The FBI has confirmed that the Bybit hack was conducted by a North Korean group, just as more details have come to light about how the attack was carried out. The Bybit hack, which resulted in the theft of nearly $1.5 billion worth of Ethereum cryptocurrency, was carried out on February 21. The attack was quickly linked to North Korean hackers, specifically the notorious Lazarus group.  In an alert published on Wednesday, the FBI said a threat actor it tracks as TraderTraitor, which the agency has been monitoring since 2022 for its attacks on blockchain companies, was behind the Bybit…

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Eli Lilly’s weight-loss pill stockpiling, scaling stem cell manufacturing, the growing measles outbreak in Texas, and more. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. getty Eli Lilly is stockpiling massive quantities of an oral weight-loss drug that’s at least a year from launch, with total “pre-launch inventory” of nearly $550 million at Dec. 31, 2024, according to its 10-K financial statements released last week. The unusual move represents a massive bet on a new once-daily pill for weight loss called orforglipron, at a time when GLP-1 drugs from Lilly and…

Texas-based employee screening giant DISA Global Solutions has revealed that a data breach suffered by the company in 2024 impacts more than 3.3 million people. DISA provides background screening, drug and alcohol testing, and compliance solutions. The company boasts serving more than 55,000 customers, and says it performs millions of drug tests and background screens every year. The firm told the public and authorities this week that 3.33 million individuals whose current or former employers used DISA screening services had their personal information stolen last year as a result of a cyber incident.  According to DISA, an intrusion into a…

The proposal urged Apple to follow a litany of high-profile companies that have recently rolled back diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.Apple shareholders have rebuffed an attempt to pressure the technology trendsetter into joining President Donald Trump’s push to scrub corporate programmes designed to diversify the workforce. The proposal drafted by the National Center for Public Policy Research — a self-described conservative think tank — urged Apple to follow a litany of high-profile companies that have retreated from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives currently in the Trump administration’s crosshairs. After a brief presentation about the anti-DEI proposal, Apple announced shareholders had rejected…

Tariffs on imports, mass firings of federal workers are some of the issues taking a toll on consumer psyche.United States consumer confidence deteriorated at its sharpest pace in 3-1/2 years in February while 12-month inflation expectations surged, offering further signs that Americans were growing anxious about the potential negative impact on the economy of President Donald Trump’s policies. The Conference Board survey on Tuesday noted that “comments on the current administration and its policies dominated the responses”. It followed on the heels of surveys last week showing steep declines in business and consumer sentiment in February. Tariffs on imports, which…

After several failed runs for Congress, Dan Bongino has made serious money in conservative media.Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Politicon Dan Bongino isn’t worried about money. On a Monday livestream—the first since President Donald Trump announced his decision to nominate Bongino, a controversial conservative political commentator and former Secret Service agent, to be deputy director of the FBI—he declared that his focus was now on combating criminals, not expanding his bank account. “Money and all that other crap, who gives a damn about any of that stuff?” he asked. “We’ll figure that out later.” That’s probably because he’s already set for…

A handful of immigrant billionaires got their start in the U.S. with the help of a visa designed to lure highly skilled talent. Now, some of the nation’s biggest, billionaire-backed tech firms are the most prolific users of these H-1B visas. By Julie Goldenberg, Contributor Jeff Skoll, the Canadian engineer who was eBay’s first full-time hire and its first president, thought his future in the U.S. was secure back in the late 1990s. After having spent three years at the helm of the fledgling e-commerce company – creating its business plan, overseeing it as it grew to 3,000 employees before…