StateScoop reports that nearly 1,700 students in Coventry Public Schools in Connecticut may have had their data compromised as a result of a breach at Illuminate Education early this year.
Microsoft Exchange servers unpatched to ProxyShell security vulnerabilities are being attacked by an affiliate of the Hive ransomware group to facilitate the distribution of the Cobalt Strike beacon and other backdoors, reports BleepingComputer.
The Hacker News reports that cybercriminals could exploit an already addressed security flaw in the Snort intrusion detection and prevention system to prompt a denial-of-service condition.