UK Engineering Giant IMI Hit by Cyberattack 

UK-based engineering giant IMI filed a short notice with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) on Thursday saying it fell victim to a cyberattack. 

Source: https://www.securityweek.com/uk-engineering-giant-imi-hit-by-cyberattack/
  

Deloitte pays $5M in connection with breach of Rhode Island benefits site 

Deloitte paid $5 million to the state of Rhode Island for expenses related to the December breach of the RIBridges social services system. 

Source: https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/deloitte-5m-rhode-social-services/739309/
  

Cyberattack disrupts Lee newspapers’ operations across the US 

Lee Enterprises, one of the largest newspaper groups in the United States, says a cyberattack that hit its systems caused an outage last week and impacted its operations. 

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cyberattack-disrupts-lee-newspapers-operations-across-the-us/
  

HPE notifies employees of data breach after Russian Office 365 hack 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is notifying employees whose data was stolen from the company’s Office 365 email environment by Russian state-sponsored hackers in a May 2023 cyberattack. 

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hpe-notifies-employees-of-data-breach-after-russian-office-365-hack/
  

Massive brute force attack uses 2.8 million IPs to target VPN devices 

A large-scale brute force password attack using almost 2.8 million IP addresses is underway, attempting to guess the credentials for a wide range of networking devices, including those from Palo Alto Networks, Ivanti, and SonicWall. 

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/massive-brute-force-attack-uses-28-million-ips-to-target-vpn-devices/
  

Apple Confirms USB Restricted Mode Exploited in ‘Extremely Sophisticated’ Attack 

Apple on Monday released an urgent patch for its flagship iOS and iPadOS platforms alongside a warning that a critical security flaw was actively exploited in the wild.   

Source: https://www.securityweek.com/apple-confirms-usb-restricted-mode-exploited-in-extremely-sophisticated-attack/
  

Cisco Says Ransomware Group’s Leak Related to Old Hack 

Cisco says that the information recently posted on a ransomware group’s Tor-based leak site refers to data stolen in a cyberattack three years ago. 

Source: https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-says-ransomware-groups-leak-related-to-old-hack/
  

North Korean Hackers Exploit PowerShell Trick to Hijack Devices in New Cyberattack 

The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky has been observed using a new tactic that involves deceiving targets into running PowerShell as an administrator and then instructing them to paste and run malicious code provided by them. 

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/north-korean-hackers-exploit-powershell.html
  

CISA Warns of Active Exploits Targeting Trimble Cityworks Vulnerability 

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned that a security flaw impacting Trimble Cityworks GIS-centric asset management software has come under active exploitation in the wild. 

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/cisa-warns-of-active-exploitation-in.html 
  

 

  

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