SOC analysts, vital to cybersecurity, face burnout due to exhausting workloads, risking their well-being and the effectiveness of organizational defenses. Security Operations Center (SOC) analyst burnout is a very real problem. These are some of the most important cybersecurity professionals out there, and many of them are being worked to exhaustion. Amidst an already overstretched […]
Operation Destabilise: The U.K. National Crime Agency disrupted Russian money laundering networks tied to organized crime. The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) disrupted Russian money laundering networks linked to organized crime across the U.K., Middle East, Russia, and South America as part of an operation called “Operation Destabilise.” “An international NCA-led investigation – Operation Destabilise […]
Russia-linked APT group Secret Blizzard has used the tools and infrastructure of at least 6 other threat actors during the past 7 years. Researchers from Microsoft Threat Intelligence collected evidence that the Russia-linked ATP group Secret Blizzard (aka Turla, Snake, Uroburos, Waterbug, Venomous Bear and KRYPTON) has used the tools and infrastructure of at least 6 other threat actors during the […]
China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon has breached telecommunications companies in dozens of countries, US govt warns. President Biden’s deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger said that China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon has breached telecommunications companies in dozens of countries. The Wall Street Journal reported that the senior White House official revealed that at least eight […]
BT Group (formerly British Telecom)’s Conferencing division shut down some of its servers following a Black Basta ransomware attack. British multinational telecommunications holding company BT Group (formerly British Telecom) announced it has shut down some of its servers following a Black Basta ransomware attack. “We identified an attempt to compromise our BT Conferencing platform. This […]
Germany’s largest crime marketplace, Crimenetwork, has been shut down, and an administrator has been arrested. German authorities announced the takedown of Crimenetwork, the largest German-speaking underground marketplace. Since 2012, Crimenetwork facilitated the sale of illegal goods and services, including drugs, forged documents, hacking tools, and stolen data. The platform served as a hub for cybercriminals […]
Veeam addressed a critical vulnerability in Service Provider Console (VSPC) that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. Veeam released security updates for a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-42448 (CVSS score of 9.9) impacting Service Provider Console. Successful exploitation of the flaw can potentially lead to remote code execution on vulnerable installs. Veeam Service […]
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.S. warn of PRC-linked cyber espionage targeting telecom networks in a joint advisory. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.S. issued a joint advisory to warn of People’s Republic of China (PRC)-linked cyber espionage targeting telecom networks. “The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal […]
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds ProjectSend, North Grid Proself, and Zyxel firewalls bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: Proself versions before Ver5.62, Ver1.65, and Ver1.08 are vulnerable to XXE attacks, allowing unauthenticated attackers […]
Cisco warns customers that a decade-old ASA vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2014-2120, is being actively exploited in the wild. Cisco warns that the decade-old ASA vulnerability CVE-2014-2120 is being actively exploited in attacks in the wild, and urges customers to review the updated advisory. The vulnerability resides in the WebVPN login page of Cisco Adaptive Security […]