Tennessee-based Austin Peay State University had its systems impacted by a ransomware attack on Wednesday, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

VentureBeat reports that consumers were the leading target of cybercriminals during the last quarter of 2021, experiencing a 73% increase in cyber incidents over the third quarter, followed by the healthcare industry.

Auditors concluded that almost every major domain of the Small Business Administration’s cybersecurity operations could be considered below standards to effectively protect data.

An HHS Office of the Inspector General audit found the HHS security program is not meeting all elements of the "managed and measurable" maturity level and, thus, is "not effective."

The Hacker News reports that a 15.3 million request-per-second volumetric distributed denial-of-service attack, one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks ever, has been stopped by Cloudflare.

ZDNet reports that Linux desktops could be exploited using vulnerabilities within a commonly used system component to allow privilege escalation and malware installation.

The document, titled "A Declaration for the Future of the Internet, is not legally binding but it does outline a commitment to key principles for each country to promote the “safe and equitable use of the Internet for everyone.”

Rezilion researchers discovered that the attack surface for the critical Log4Shell zero-day flaw in the Apache Log4j library continues to be significant four months since its discovery, according to BleepingComputer.