Ransomware payments dropped by 35% last year compared to 2023, despite an increase in the number of attacks, according to a new report from Chainalysis. Despite claims from cybersecurity firms that ransomware activity peaked in 2024, there has been a significant drop in extortion payments. Chainalysis also noted in its …

CISA added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, noting they are actively being exploited. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows: CVE-2024-45195 (CVSS score: 7.5/9.8) – (A vulnerability in Apache OFBiz that lets a remote attacker gain unauthorized access and run code on the server, fixed …

AMD announced patches on Monday for a microprocessor vulnerability that risks the loss of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) protection, potentially allowing attackers to load harmful microcode. CVE-2024-56161, with a CVSS score of 7.2, is a bug involving improper signature verification in the AMD CPU microcode patch loader’s read-only memory. The …