Автор: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer

When it comes to this year’s candidates and political campaigns fending off major cyberattacks, a lot has changed since the 2016 election cycle.

Brain Cipher made a loud entry to the ransomware scene, but it doesn’t seem to be quite as sophisticated as its accomplishment would suggest.

The CVSS 9.8 authentication bypass in Ivanti’s traffic manager admin panel already has a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit lurking in the wild.

A quick and easy exploit for crashing Windows computers has no fix yet nor really any way to mitigate its effects.

US citizens play middleman between US companies and the North Korean government agents they unwittingly hire.

Invisible authentication mechanisms in Microsoft allow any attacker to escalate from privileged to super-duper privileged in cloud environments, paving the way for complete takeover.

Everyone expected some kind of cyberattack during the Olympics. If this is the best they’ve got, the bad guys don’t deserve a spot on the podium.

In the cloud, patches disseminate automatically. On your computer, you get notified. IoT devices, meanwhile, can escape attention for years on end.

The runaway success of an upstart ransomware outfit called "Dark Angels" may well influence the cyberattack landscape for years to come.