It is unclear why the threat actor released the credentials rather than using them for themselves, but it is believed to have been done to promote the RAMP hacking forum and the Groove ransomware-as-a-service operation.

The rankings are based on MSSP Alert’s 2021 readership survey combined with the digital media site’s global editorial coverage of managed security services providers. The fifth-annual list and research report track the managed security service market’s ongoing growth and evolution.

“You know, we’ve seen how cyber threats, including ransomware attacks, increasingly are able to cause damage and disruption to the real world,” Biden said during a speech at the National Counterterrorism Center of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

UC San Diego Health discovered unauthorized access to some of its employees’ email accounts on April 8, after being initially alerted to suspicious activity on March 12. After discovering the breach, UC San Diego Health terminated the unauthorized access to the compromised accounts and reported the event to law enforcement and the FBI.

“Cyber actors can compromise devices over Bluetooth, public Wi-Fi, and Near-Field Communications (NFC), a short-range wireless technology. This puts personal and organizational data, credentials, and devices at risk,” the NSA explains.

CISA, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also shared mitigation to help private and public sector organizations counter these vulnerabilities.

In accordance with the regulation on responding to threats to circumvent restrictions on access to child pornography, suicidal, pro-narcotic and other prohibited content, restrictions on the use of VPN services VyprVPN and Opera VPN will be introduced from June 17, 2021, the Roskomnadzor said.

Improperly secured UC/VVoIP devices are exposed to the same security risks and targeted by threat actors through spyware, viruses, software vulnerabilities, and other malicious means if not adequately secured and configured.