Brute-Force amplification Archives - Security Affairs

SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 25

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 503 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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US charged Dual Russian and Israeli National as LockBit Ransomware developer

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BadBox rapidly grows, 190,000 Android devices infected

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Romanian national was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in NetWalker ransomware attacks

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Sophos fixed critical vulnerabilities in its Firewall product

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U.S. CISA adds BeyondTrust software flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Raccoon Infostealer operator sentenced to 60 months in prison

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Mirai botnet targets SSR devices, Juniper Networks warns

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Fortinet warns about Critical flaw in Wireless LAN Manager FortiWLM

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CERT-UA: Russia-linked UAC-0125 abuses Cloudflare Workers to target Ukrainian army

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US considers banning TP-Link routers over cybersecurity concerns

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Russia-linked APT29 group used red team tools in rogue RDP attacks

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Threat actors are attempting to exploit Apache Struts vulnerability CVE-2024-53677

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Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €251 million for a 2018 data breach

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Texas Tech University data breach impacted 1.4 million individuals

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The FBI warns of HiatusRAT scanning campaigns against Chinese-branded web cameras and DVRs

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Russia FSB relies on Ukrainian minors for criminal activities disguised as "quest games"

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U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows Kernel-Mode Driver and Adobe ColdFusion flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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ConnectOnCall data breach impacted over 900,000 individuals

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Report claims that Serbian authorities abused Cellebrite tool to install NoviSpy spyware

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Multiple flaws in Volkswagen Group's infotainment unit allow for vehicle compromise

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PUMAKIT, a sophisticated rootkit that uses advanced stealth mechanisms

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 24

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 502 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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IOCONTROL cyberweapon used to target infrastructure in the US and Isreael

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U.S. CISA adds Cleo Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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German agency BSI sinkholed a botnet of 30,000 devices infected with BadBox

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U.S. authorities seized cybercrime marketplace Rydox

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Experts discovered the first mobile malware families linked to Russia's Gamaredon

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US Bitcoin ATM operator Byte Federal suffered a data breach

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Experts discovered surveillance tool EagleMsgSpy used by Chinese law enforcement

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Operation PowerOFF took down 27 DDoS platforms across 15 countries

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Russia's Secret Blizzard APT targets Ukraine with Kazuar backdoor

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Ivanti fixed a maximum severity vulnerability in its CSA solution

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Operation Digital Eye: China-linked relies on Visual Studio Code Remote Tunnels to spy on Europen entities

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Chinese national charged for hacking thousands of Sophos firewalls

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Cybercriminals Impersonate Dubai Police to Defraud Consumers in the UAE - Smishing Triad in Action

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U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows CLFS driver flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Microsoft December 2024 Patch Tuesday addressed actively exploited zero-day

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SAP fixed critical SSRF flaw in NetWeaver's Adobe Document Services

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Romanian energy supplier Electrica Group is facing a ransomware attack

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Deloitte denied its systems were hacked by Brain Cipher ransomware group

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Mandiant devised a technique to bypass browser isolation using QR codes

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2023 Anna Jaques Hospital data breach impacted over 310,000 people

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 23

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 501 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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RedLine info-stealer campaign targets Russian businesses through pirated corporate software

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8Base ransomware group hacked Croatia's Port of Rijeka

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Romania ’s election systems hit by 85,000 attacks ahead of presidential vote

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New Atrium Health data breach impacts 585,000 individuals

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U.S. CISA adds CyberPanel flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Hundred of CISCO switches impacted by bootloader flaw

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Operation Destabilise dismantled Russian money laundering networks

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Russia-linked APT Secret Blizzard spotted using infrastructure of other threat actors

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China-linked APT Salt Typhoon has breached telcos in dozens of countries

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Black Basta ransomware gang hit BT Group

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Authorities shut down Crimenetwork, the Germany's largest crime marketplace

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Veeam addressed critical Service Provider Console (VSPC) bug

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Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.S. warn of PRC-linked cyber espionage targeting telecom networks

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U.S. CISA adds ProjectSend, North Grid Proself, and Zyxel firewalls bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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The ASA flaw CVE-2014-2120 is being actively exploited in the wild

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DMM Bitcoin halts operations six months after a $300 million cyber heist

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Energy industry contractor ENGlobal Corporation discloses a ransomware attack

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Poland probes Pegasus spyware abuse under the PiS government

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Tor Project needs 200 WebTunnel bridges more to bypass Russia' censorship

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Interpol: Operation HAECHI-V led to more than 5,500 suspects arrested

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How threat actors can use generative artificial intelligence?

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 22

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 500 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Hackers stole millions of dollars from Uganda Central Bank

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Notorious ransomware programmer Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev arrested in Russia

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Phishing-as-a-Service Rockstar 2FA continues to be prevalent

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Zello urges users to reset passwords following a cyber attack

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A cyberattack impacted operations at UK Wirral University Teaching Hospital

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T-Mobile detected network intrusion attempts and blocked them

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ProjectSend critical flaw actively exploited in the wild, experts warn

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Bootkitty is the first UEFI Bootkit designed for Linux systems

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VMware fixed five vulnerabilities in Aria Operations product

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Operation Serengeti: INTERPOL arrested 1,006 suspects in 19 African countries

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Russian group RomCom exploited Firefox and Tor Browser zero-days to target attacks Europe and North America

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The source code of Banshee Stealer leaked online

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U.S. CISA adds Array Networks AG and vxAG ArrayOS flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Thai police arrested Chinese hackers involved in SMS blaster attacks

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Zyxel firewalls targeted in recent ransomware attacks

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Malware campaign abused flawed Avast Anti-Rootkit driver

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Russia-linked APT TAG-110 uses targets Europe and Asia

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Russia-linked threat actors threaten the UK and its allies, minister to say

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 499 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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DoJ seized credit card marketplace PopeyeTools and charges its administrators

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A cyberattack on gambling giant IGT disrupted portions of its IT systems

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China-linked APT Gelsemium uses a new Linux backdoor dubbed WolfsBane

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Microsoft seized 240 sites used by the ONNX phishing service

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U.S. CISA adds Apple, Oracle Agile PLM bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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More than 2,000 Palo Alto Networks firewalls hacked exploiting recently patched zero-days

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Ransomhub ransomware gang claims the hack of Mexican government Legal Affairs Office

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US DoJ charges five alleged members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime gang

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Threat actor sells data of over 750,000 patients from a French hospital

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Decade-old local privilege escalation bugs impacts Ubuntu needrestart package

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Ford data breach involved a third-party supplier

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Hacker obtained documents tied to lawsuit over Matt Gaetz's sexual misconduct allegations

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Apple addressed two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities

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Unsecured JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebooks servers abused for illegal streaming of Sports events

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Russian Phobos ransomware operator faces cybercrime charges

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Great Plains Regional Medical Center ransomware attack impacted 133,000 individuals

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Recently disclosed VMware vCenter Server bugs are actively exploited in attacks

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Foreign adversary hacked email communications of the Library of Congress says

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T-Mobile is one of the victims of the massive Chinese breach of telecom firms

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Increased GDPR Enforcement Highlights the Need for Data Security

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Critical Really Simple Security plugin flaw impacts 4M+ WordPress sites

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 20

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A botnet exploits e GeoVision zero-day to compromise EoL devices

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Palo Alto Networks confirmed active exploitation of recently disclosed zero-day

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Glove Stealer bypasses Chrome’s App-Bound Encryption to steal cookies

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Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced to 5 years in prison

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U.S. CISA adds Palo Alto Networks Expedition bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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China-linked threat actors compromised multiple telecos and spied on a limited number of U.S. government officials

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Bitdefender released a decryptor for the ShrinkLocker ransomware

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China's Volt Typhoon botnet has re-emerged

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Zoom addressed two high-severity issues in its platform

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for November 2024 fix two actively exploited zero-days

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Ahold Delhaize experienced a cyber incident affecting several of its U.S. brands

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A cyberattack on payment systems blocked cards readers across stores and gas stations in Israel

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Apple indeed added a feature called "inactivity reboot" in iOS 18.1 that reboots locked devices

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Ymir ransomware, a new stealthy ransomware grow in the wild

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Amazon discloses employee data breach after May 2023 MOVEit attacks

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A new fileless variant of Remcos RAT observed in the wild

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A surge in Pro-Russia cyberattacks after decision to monitor North Korean Troops in Ukraine

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 19

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 497 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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U.S. agency cautions employees to limit phone use due to Salt Typhoon hack of telco providers

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Mazda Connect flaws allow to hack some Mazda vehicles

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Veeam Backup & Replication exploit reused in new Frag ransomware attack

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Texas oilfield supplier Newpark Resources suffered a ransomware attack

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Palo Alto Networks warns of potential RCE in PAN-OS management interface

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iPhones in a law enforcement forensics lab mysteriously rebooted losing their After First Unlock (AFU) state

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U.S. CISA adds Palo Alto Expedition, Android, CyberPanel and Nostromo nhttpd bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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DPRK-linked BlueNoroff used macOS malware with novel persistence

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Canada ordered ByteDance to shut down TikTok operations in the country over security concerns

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Critical bug in Cisco UWRB access points allows attackers to run commands as root

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INTERPOL: Operation Synergia II disrupted +22,000 malicious IPs

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Memorial Hospital and Manor suffered a ransomware attack

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South Korea fined Meta $15.67M for illegally collecting and sharing Facebook users

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Synology fixed critical flaw impacting millions of DiskStation and BeePhotos NAS devices

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ToxicPanda Android banking trojan targets Europe and LATAM, with a focus on Italy

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U.S. CISA adds PTZOptics camera bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Canadian authorities arrested alleged Snowflake hacker

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Android flaw CVE-2024-43093 may be under limited, targeted exploitation

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July 2024 ransomware attack on the City of Columbus impacted 500,000 people

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Nigerian man Sentenced to 26+ years in real estate phishing scams

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Russian disinformation campaign active ahead of 2024 US election

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International law enforcement operation shut down DDoS-for-hire platform Dstat.cc

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 18

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 496 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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US Election 2024 – FBI warning about fake election videos

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Chinese threat actors use Quad7 botnet in password-spray attacks

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FBI arrested former Disney World employee for hacking computer menus and mislabeling allergy info

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Sophos details five years of China-linked threat actors' activity targeting network devices worldwide

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PTZOptics cameras zero-days actively exploited in the wild

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New LightSpy spyware version targets iPhones with destructive capabilities

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LottieFiles confirmed a supply chain attack on Lottie-Player

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Threat actor says Interbank refused to pay the ransom after a two-week negotiation

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QNAP fixed second zero-day demonstrated at Pwn2Own Ireland 2024

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New version of Android malware FakeCall redirects bank calls to scammers

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Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard APT targeted 100+ organizations with a spear-phishing campaign using RDP files

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QNAP fixed NAS backup zero-day demonstrated at Pwn2Own Ireland 2024

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International law enforcement operation dismantled RedLine and Meta infostealers

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Fog and Akira ransomware attacks exploit SonicWall VPN flaw CVE-2024-40766

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Russia-linked espionage group UNC5812 targets Ukraine's military with malware

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France’s second-largest telecoms provider Free suffered a cyber attack

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A crime ring compromised Italian state databases reselling stolen info

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Third-Party Identities: The Weakest Link in Your Cybersecurity Supply Chain

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Black Basta affiliates used Microsoft Teams in recent attacks

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 17

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Four REvil Ransomware members sentenced for hacking and money laundering

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Chinese cyber spies targeted phones used by Trump and Vance

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Irish Data Protection Commission fined LinkedIn €310M for GDPR infringement

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Change Healthcare data breach impacted over 100 million people

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OnePoint Patient Care data breach impacted 795916 individuals

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From Risk Assessment to Action: Improving Your DLP Response

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U.S. CISA adds Cisco ASA and FTD, and RoundCube Webmail bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Pwn2Own Ireland 2024 Day 2: participants demonstrated an exploit against Samsung Galaxy S24

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Cisco fixed tens of vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited one

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FortiJump flaw CVE-2024-47575 has been exploited in zero-day attacks since June 2024

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U.S. CISA adds Fortinet FortiManager flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Digital Echo Chambers and Erosion of Trust - Key Threats to the US Elections

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Crooks are targeting Docker API servers to deploy SRBMiner

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Why DSPM is Essential for Achieving Data Privacy in 2024

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SEC fined 4 companies for misleading disclosures about the impact of the SolarWinds attack

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Samsung zero-day flaw actively exploited in the wild

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Experts warn of a new wave of Bumblebee malware attacks

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U.S. CISA adds ScienceLogic SL1 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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VMware failed to fully address vCenter Server RCE flaw CVE-2024-38812

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Cisco states that data published on cybercrime forum was taken from public-facing DevHub environment

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Internet Archive was breached twice in a month

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Unknown threat actors exploit Roundcube Webmail flaw in phishing campaign

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 16

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 494 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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F5 fixed a high-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability in BIG-IP

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U.S. CISA adds Veeam Backup and Replication flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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North Korea-linked APT37 exploited IE zero-day in a recent attack

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Omni Family Health data breach impacts 468,344 individuals

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Iran-linked actors target critical infrastructure organizations

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macOS HM Surf flaw in TCC allows bypass Safari privacy settings

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Two Sudanese nationals indicted for operating the Anonymous Sudan group

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Russia-linked RomCom group targeted Ukrainian government agencies since late 2023

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A critical flaw in Kubernetes Image Builder could allow attackers to gain root access

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VMware fixes high-severity SQL injection flaw CVE-2024-38814 in HCX

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Brazil's Polícia Federal arrested the notorious hacker USDoD

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Finnish Customs dismantled the dark web drugs market Sipulitie

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U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows Kernel, Mozilla Firefox and SolarWinds Web Help Desk bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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GitHub addressed a critical vulnerability in Enterprise Server

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A new Linux variant of FASTCash malware targets financial systems

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WordPress Jetpack plugin critical flaw impacts 27 million sites

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Pokemon dev Game Freak discloses data breach

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U.S. CISA adds Fortinet products and Ivanti CSA bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Nation-state actor exploited three Ivanti CSA zero-days

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Dutch police dismantled dual dark web market 'Bohemia/Cannabia'

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Fidelity Investments suffered a second data breach this year

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 15

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 493 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Russia-linked group APT29 is targeting Zimbra and JetBrains TeamCity servers on a large scale

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A cyber attack hit Iranian government sites and nuclear facilities

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Ransomware operators exploited Veeam Backup & Replication flaw CVE-2024-40711 in recent attacks

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GitLab fixed a critical flaw that could allow arbitrary CI/CD pipeline execution

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Iran and China-linked actors used ChatGPT for preparing attacks

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Internet Archive data breach impacted 31M users

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E-skimming campaign uses Unicode obfuscation to hide the Mongolian Skimmer

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U.S. CISA adds Ivanti CSA and Fortinet bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Mozilla issued an urgent Firefox update to fix an actively exploited flaw

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Palo Alto fixed critical flaws in PAN-OS firewalls that allow for full compromise of the devices

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Cybercriminals Are Targeting AI Conversational Platforms

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Awaken Likho APT group targets Russian government with a new implant

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U.S. CISA adds Windows and Qualcomm bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Ukrainian national pleads guilty in U.S. court for operating the Raccoon Infostealer

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MoneyGram discloses data breach following September cyberattack

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American Water shut down some of its systems following a cyberattack

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Universal Music data breach impacted 680 individuals

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FBCS data breach impacted 238,000 Comcast customers

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Critical Apache Avro SDK RCE flaw impacts Java applications

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Man pleads guilty to stealing over $37 Million worth of cryptocurrency

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U.S. CISA adds Synacor Zimbra Collaboration flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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China-linked group Salt Typhoon hacked US broadband providers and breached wiretap systems

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 14

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 492 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Google Pixel 9 supports new security features to mitigate baseband attacks

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WordPress LiteSpeed Cache plugin flaw could allow site takeover

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Apple iOS 18.0.1 and iPadOS 18.0.1 fix media session and passwords bugs

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Google removed Kaspersky's security apps from the Play Store

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New Perfctl Malware targets Linux servers in cryptomining campaign

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Microsoft and DOJ seized the attack infrastructure used by Russia-linked Callisto Group

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Dutch police breached by a state actor

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Thousands of Adobe Commerce e-stores hacked by exploiting the CosmicSting bug

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Telegram revealed it shared U.S. user data with law enforcement

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U.S. CISA adds Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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14 New DrayTek routers' flaws impacts over 700,000 devices in 168 countries

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Rhadamanthys information stealer introduces AI-driven capabilities

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Critical Zimbra Postjournal flaw CVE-2024-45519 actively exploited in the wild. Patch it now!

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Police arrested four new individuals linked to the LockBit ransomware operation

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UMC Health System diverted patients following a ransomware attack

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U.S. CISA adds D-Link DIR-820 Router, DrayTek Multiple Vigor Router, Motion Spell GPAC, SAP Commerce Cloud bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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News agency AFP hit by cyberattack, client services impacted

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North Korea-linked APT Kimsuky targeted German defense firm Diehl Defence

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Patelco Credit Union data breach impacted over 1 million people

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Community Clinic of Maui discloses a data breach following May Lockbit ransomware attack

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A British national has been charged for his execution of a hack-to-trade scheme

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Critical NVIDIA Container Toolkit flaw could allow access to the underlying host

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Israel army hacked the communication network of the Beirut Airport control tower

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 13

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 491 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Irish Data Protection Commission fined Meta €91 million for storing passwords in readable format

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A cyberattack on Kuwait Health Ministry impacted hospitals in the country

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Cyber vandalism on Wi-Fi networks at UK train stations spread an anti-Islam message

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CUPS flaws allow remote code execution on Linux systems under certain conditions

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U.S. sanctioned virtual currency exchanges Cryptex and PM2BTC for facilitating illegal activities

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Hacking Kia cars made after 2013 using just their license plate

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Critical RCE vulnerability found in OpenPLC

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China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon compromised some U.S. internet service providers (ISPs)

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Privacy non-profit noyb claims that Firefox tracks users with privacy preserving feature

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Data of 3,191 congressional staffers leaked in the dark web

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New variant of Necro Trojan infected more than 11 million devices

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U.S. CISA adds Ivanti Virtual Traffic Manager flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Arkansas City water treatment facility switched to manual operations following a cyberattack

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New Android banking trojan Octo2 targets European banks

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A generative artificial intelligence malware used in phishing attacks

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A cyberattack on MoneyGram caused its service outage

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Did Israel infiltrate Lebanese telecoms networks?

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Telegram will provide user data to law enforcement in response to legal requests

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ESET fixed two privilege escalation flaws in its products

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North Korea-linked APT Gleaming Pisces deliver new PondRAT backdoor via malicious Python packages

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Chinese APT Earth Baxia target APAC by exploiting GeoServer flaw

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Hacktivist group Twelve is back and targets Russian entities

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 12

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 490 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Noise Storms: Mysterious massive waves of spoofed traffic observed since 2020

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Hackers stole over $44 million from Asian crypto platform BingX

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OP KAERB: Europol dismantled phishing scheme targeting mobile users

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Ukraine bans Telegram for government agencies, military, and critical infrastructure

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Tor Project responded to claims that law enforcement can de-anonymize Tor users

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UNC1860 provides Iran-linked APTs with access to Middle Eastern networks

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US DoJ charged two men with stealing and laundering $230 Million worth of cryptocurrency

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The Vanilla Tempest cybercrime gang used INC ransomware for the first time in attacks on the healthcare sector

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U.S. CISA adds new Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance Vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Ivanti warns of a new actively exploited Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) flaw

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International law enforcement operation dismantled criminal communication platform Ghost

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U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows, Apache HugeGraph-Server, Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle WebLogic Server, and Microsoft SQL Server bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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SIEM for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: What you need to know

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Experts warn of China-linked APT's Raptor Train IoT Botnet

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Credential Flusher, understanding the threat and how to protect your login data

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U.S. Treasury issued fresh sanctions against entities linked to the Intellexa Consortium

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Broadcom fixed Critical VMware vCenter Server flaw CVE-2024-38812

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Remote attack on pagers used by Hezbollah caused 9 deaths and thousands of injuries

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Chinese man charged for spear-phishing against NASA and US Government

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U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows MSHTML Platform and Progress WhatsUp Gold bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Taking Control Online: Ensuring Awareness of Data Usage and Consent

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Qilin ransomware attack on Synnovis impacted over 900,000 patients

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D-Link addressed three critical RCE in wireless router models

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Recently patched Windows flaw CVE-2024-43461 was actively exploited as a zero-day before July 2024

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SolarWinds fixed critical RCE CVE-2024-28991 in Access Rights Manager

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Apple dismisses lawsuit against surveillance firm NSO Group due to risk of threat intelligence exposure

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Hacker tricked ChatGPT into providing detailed instructions to make a homemade bomb

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Port of Seattle confirmed that Rhysida ransomware gang was behind the August attack

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 11

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U.S. CISA adds Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance Vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance flaw is being actively exploited in the wild

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GitLab fixed a critical flaw in GitLab CE and GitLab EE

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New Linux malware called Hadooken targets Oracle WebLogic servers

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Lehigh Valley Health Network hospital network has agreed to a $65 million settlement after data breach

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Vo1d malware infected 1.3 Million Android-based TV Boxes in 197 countries

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Cybersecurity giant Fortinet discloses a data breach

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Singapore Police arrest six men allegedly involved in a cybercrime syndicate

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Adobe Patch Tuesday security updates fixed multiple critical issues in the company's products

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Highline Public Schools school district suspended its activities following a cyberattack

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RansomHub ransomware gang relies on Kaspersky TDSKiller tool to disable EDR

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Ivanti fixed a maximum severity flaw in its Endpoint Management software (EPM)

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for September 2024 addressed four actively exploited zero-days

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Quad7 botnet evolves to more stealthy tactics to evade detection

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Poland thwarted cyberattacks that were carried out by Russia and Belarus

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U.S. CISA adds SonicWall SonicOS, ImageMagick and Linux Kernel bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Electronic payment gateway Slim CD disclosed a data breach impacting 1.7M individuals

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Predator spyware operation is back with a new infrastructure

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TIDRONE APT targets drone manufacturers in Taiwan

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Multiple malware families delivered exploiting GeoServer GeoTools flaw CVE-2024-36401

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Progress Software fixed a maximum severity flaw in LoadMaster

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Feds indicted two alleged administrators of WWH Club dark web marketplace

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 10

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 488 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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U.S. CISA adds Draytek VigorConnect and Kingsoft WPS Office bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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A flaw in WordPress LiteSpeed Cache Plugin allows account takeover

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Car rental company Avis discloses a data breach

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SonicWall warns that SonicOS bug exploited in attacks

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Apache fixed a new remote code execution flaw in Apache OFBiz

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Russia-linked GRU Unit 29155 targeted critical infrastructure globally

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Veeam fixed a critical flaw in Veeam Backup & Replication software

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Earth Lusca adds multiplatform malware KTLVdoor to its arsenal

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Is Russian group APT28 behind the cyber attack on the German air traffic control agency (DFS)?

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Quishing, an insidious threat to electric car owners

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Discontinued D-Link DIR-846 routers are affected by code execution flaws. Replace them!

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Head Mare hacktivist group targets Russia and Belarus

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Zyxel fixed critical OS command injection flaw in multiple routers

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VMware fixed a code execution flaw in Fusion hypervisor

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Vulnerabilities in Microsoft apps for macOS allow stealing permissions

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Three men plead guilty to running MFA bypass service OTP.Agency

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Transport for London (TfL) is dealing with an ongoing cyberattack

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Lockbit gang claims the attack on the Toronto District School Board (TDSB)

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A new variant of Cicada ransomware targets VMware ESXi systems

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An air transport security system flaw allowed to bypass airport security screenings

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 9

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 487 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Fortra fixed two severe issues in FileCatalyst Workflow, including a critical flaw

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South Korea-linked group APT-C-60 exploited a WPS Office zero-day

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Threat actors exploit Atlassian Confluence bug in cryptomining campaigns

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Russia-linked APT29 reused iOS and Chrome exploits previously developed by NSO Group and Intellexa

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Cisco addressed a high-severity flaw in NX-OS software

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Corona Mirai botnet spreads via AVTECH CCTV zero-day

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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov charged in France for facilitating criminal activities

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Iran-linked group APT33 adds new Tickler malware to its arsenal

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U.S. CISA adds Google Chromium V8 bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Young Consulting data breach impacts 954,177 individuals

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BlackByte Ransomware group targets recently patched VMware ESXi flaw CVE-2024-37085

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US offers $2.5M reward for Belarusian man involved in mass malware distribution

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U.S. CISA adds Apache OFBiz bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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China-linked APT Volt Typhoon exploited a zero-day in Versa Director

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Researchers unmasked the notorious threat actor USDoD

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The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) has fined Uber a record €290M

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Google addressed the tenth actively exploited Chrome zero-day this year

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SonicWall addressed an improper access control issue in its firewalls

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A cyberattack impacted operations at the Port of Seattle and Sea-Tac Airport

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Linux malware sedexp uses udev rules for persistence and evasion

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France police arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 8

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 486 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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U.S. CISA adds Versa Director bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Hackers can take over Ecovacs home robots to spy on their owners

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Russian national arrested in Argentina for laundering money of crooks and Lazarus APT

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Qilin ransomware steals credentials stored in Google Chrome

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Phishing attacks target mobile users via progressive web applications (PWA)

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Member of cybercrime group Karakurt charged in the US

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New malware Cthulhu Stealer targets Apple macOS users

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China-linked APT Velvet Ant exploited zero-day to compromise Cisco switches

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A cyberattack hit US oil giant Halliburton

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SolarWinds fixed a hardcoded credential issue in Web Help Desk

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A cyberattack disrupted operations of US chipmaker Microchip Technology

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Google addressed the ninth actively exploited Chrome zero-day this year

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GitHub fixed a new critical flaw in the GitHub Enterprise Server

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Experts disclosed a critical information-disclosure flaw in Microsoft Copilot Studio

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North Korea-linked APT used a new RAT called MoonPeak

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Pro-Russia group Vermin targets Ukraine with a new malware family

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A backdoor in millions of Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics RFID cards allows cloning

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Ransomware payments rose from $449.1 million to $459.8 million

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Previously unseen Msupedge backdoor targeted a university in Taiwan

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Oracle NetSuite misconfiguration could lead to data exposure

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Toyota disclosed a data breach after ZeroSevenGroup leaked stolen data on a cybercrime forum

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CISA adds Jenkins Command Line Interface (CLI) bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Researchers uncovered new infrastructure linked to the cybercrime group FIN7

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Experts warn of exploit attempt for Ivanti vTM bug

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Microsoft Zero-Day CVE-2024-38193 was exploited by North Korea-linked Lazarus APT

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The Mad Liberator ransomware group uses social-engineering techniques

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From 2018: DeepMasterPrints: deceive fingerprint recognition systems with MasterPrints generated with GANs

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 7

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 485 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Large-scale extortion campaign targets publicly accessible environment variable files (.env)

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OpenAI dismantled an Iranian influence operation targeting the U.S. presidential election

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National Public Data confirms a data breach

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CISA adds SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Russian national sentenced to 40 months for selling stolen data on the dark web

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Banshee Stealer, a new macOS malware with a monthly subscription price of $3,000

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Millions of Pixel devices can be hacked due to a pre-installed vulnerable app

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Microsoft urges customers to fix zero-click Windows RCE in the TCP/IP stack

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A group linked to RansomHub operation employs EDR-killing tool EDRKillShifter

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Google disrupted hacking campaigns carried out by Iran-linked APT42

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Black Basta ransomware gang linked to a SystemBC malware campaign

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A massive cyber attack hit Central Bank of Iran and other Iranian banks

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China-linked APT Earth Baku targets Europe, the Middle East, and Africa

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SolarWinds addressed a critical RCE in all Web Help Desk versions

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Kootenai Health data breach impacted 464,000 patients

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for August 2024 addressed six actively exploited bugs

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A PoC exploit code is available for critical Ivanti vTM bug

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Elon Musk claims that a DDoS attack caused problems with the livestream interview with Donald Trump

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CERT-UA warns of a phishing campaign targeting government entities

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US DoJ dismantled remote IT worker fraud schemes run by North Korea

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A FreeBSD flaw could allow remote code execution, patch it now!

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EastWind campaign targets Russian organizations with sophisticated backdoors

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Microsoft found OpenVPN bugs that can be chained to achieve RCE and LPE

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Foreign nation-state actors hacked Donald Trump’s campaign

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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 6

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 484 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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ADT disclosed a data breach that impacted more than 30,000 customers

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Is the INC ransomware gang behind the attack on McLaren hospitals?

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Crooks took control of a cow milking robot causing the death of a cow

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Sonos smart speakers flaw allowed to eavesdrop on users

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Five zero-days impacts EoL Cisco Small Business IP Phones. Replace them with newer models asap!

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CISA adds Apache OFBiz and Android kernel bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Russian cyber spies stole data and emails from UK government systems

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0.0.0.0 Day flaw allows malicious websites to bypass security in major browsers

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FBI and CISA update a joint advisory on the BlackSuit Ransomware group

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Rhysida Ransomware group claims to have breached Bayhealth Hospital in Delaware

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Critical XSS bug in Roundcube Webmail allows attackers to steal emails and sensitive data

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New Android spyware LianSpy relies on Yandex Cloud to avoid detection

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Hackers breached MDM firm Mobile Guardian and wiped thousands of devices

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A ransomware attack hit French museum network

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CISA adds Microsoft COM for Windows bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Google warns of an actively exploited Android kernel flaw

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Should Organizations Pay Ransom Demands?

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North Korea-linked hackers target construction and machinery sectors with watering hole and supply chain attacks

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Researchers warn of a new critical Apache OFBiz flaw

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Keytronic incurred approximately $17 million of expenses following ransomware attack

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A flaw in Rockwell Automation ControlLogix 1756 could expose critical control systems to unauthorized access

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China-linked APT41 breached Taiwanese research institute

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Chinese StormBamboo APT compromised ISP to deliver malware

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Hackers attempt to sell the personal data of 3 billion people resulting from an April data breach

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Security Affairs Malware Newsletter - Round 5

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 483 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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US sued TikTok and ByteDance for violating children’s privacy laws

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Russia-linked APT used a car for sale as a phishing lure to target diplomats with HeadLace malware

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Investors sued CrowdStrike over false claims about its Falcon platform

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Avtech camera vulnerability actively exploited in the wild, CISA warns

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U.S. released Russian cybercriminals in diplomatic prisoner exchange

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Sitting Ducks attack technique exposes over a million domains to hijacking

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Over 20,000 internet-exposed VMware ESXi instances vulnerable to CVE-2024-37085

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BingoMod Android RAT steals money from victims' bank accounts and wipes data

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A ransomware attack disrupted operations at OneBlood blood bank

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Apple fixed dozens of vulnerabilities in iOS and macOS

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Phishing campaigns target SMBs in Poland, Romania, and Italy with multiple malware families

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A Fortune 50 company paid a record-breaking $75 million ransom

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CISA adds VMware ESXi bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Mandrake Android spyware found in five apps in Google Play with over 32,000 downloads since 2022

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SideWinder phishing campaign targets maritime facilities in multiple countries

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A crafty phishing campaign targets Microsoft OneDrive users

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Ransomware gangs exploit recently patched VMware ESXi bug CVE-2024-37085

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Acronis Cyber Infrastructure bug actively exploited in the wild

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Fake Falcon crash reporter installer used to target German Crowdstrike users

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Belarus-linked APT Ghostwriter targeted Ukraine with PicassoLoader malware

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French authorities launch disinfection operation to eradicate PlugX malware from infected hosts

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Security Affairs Malware Newsletter - Round 4

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 482 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Ukraine's cyber operation shut down the ATM services of major Russian banks

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A bug in Chrome Password Manager caused user credentials to disappear

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BIND updates fix four high-severity DoS bugs in the DNS software suite

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Terrorist Activity is Accelerating in Cyberspace - Risk Precursor to Summer Olympics and Elections

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Progress Software fixed critical RCE CVE-2024-6327 in the Telerik Report Server

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Critical bug in Docker Engine allowed attackers to bypass authorization plugins

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Hackers exploit Microsoft Defender SmartScreen bug CVE-2024-21412 to deliver ACR, Lumma, and Meduza Stealers

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Michigan Medicine data breach impacted 56953 patients

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U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Internet Explorer and Twilio Authy bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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China-linked APT group uses new Macma macOS backdoor version

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FrostyGoop ICS malware targets Ukraine

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Hackers abused swap files in e-skimming attacks on Magento sites

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US Gov sanctioned key members of the Cyber Army of Russia Reborn hacktivists group

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EvilVideo, a Telegram Android zero-day allowed sending malicious APKs disguised as videos

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SocGholish malware used to spread AsyncRAT malware

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UK police arrested a 17-year-old linked to the Scattered Spider gang

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Security Affairs Malware Newsletter - Round 3

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 481 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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U.S. CISA adds Adobe Commerce and Magento, SolarWinds Serv-U, and VMware vCenter Server bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Threat actors attempted to capitalize CrowdStrike incident

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Russian nationals plead guilty to participating in the LockBit ransomware group

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MediSecure data breach impacted 12.9 million individuals

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CrowdStrike update epic fail crashed Windows systems worldwide

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Cisco fixed a critical flaw in Security Email Gateway that could allow attackers to add root users

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SAPwned flaws in SAP AI core could expose customers' data

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Cybercrime group FIN7 advertises new EDR bypass tool on hacking forums

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How to Protect Privacy and Build Secure AI Products

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A critical flaw in Cisco SSM On-Prem allows attackers to change any user's password

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MarineMax data breach impacted over 123,000 individuals

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Void Banshee exploits CVE-2024-38112 zero-day to spread malware

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The Octo Tempest group adds RansomHub and Qilin ransomware to its arsenal

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CISA adds OSGeo GeoServer GeoTools bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Kaspersky leaves U.S. market following the ban on the sale of its software in the country

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FBI unlocked the phone of the suspect in the assassination attempt on Donald Trump

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Ransomware groups target Veeam Backup & Replication bug

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AT&T paid a $370,000 ransom to prevent stolen data from being leaked

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HardBit ransomware version 4.0 supports new obfuscation techniques

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Dark Gate malware campaign uses Samba file shares

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Security Affairs Malware Newsletter - Round 2

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 480 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov was sentenced to prison for his role in Zeus and IcedID operations

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Rite Aid disclosed data breach following RansomHub ransomware attack

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New AT&T data breach exposed call logs of almost all customers

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Critical flaw in Exim MTA could allow to deliver malware to users' inboxes

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Palo Alto Networks fixed a critical bug in the Expedition tool

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Smishing Triad Is Targeting India To Steal Personal and Payment Data at Scale

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October ransomware attack on Dallas County impacted over 200,000 people

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CrystalRay operations have scaled 10x to over 1,500 victims

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Multiple threat actors exploit PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577 to deliver malware

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AI-Powered Russia's bot farm operates on X, US and its allies warn

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VMware fixed critical SQL-Injection in Aria Automation product

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Citrix fixed critical and high-severity bugs in NetScaler product

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A new flaw in OpenSSH can lead to remote code execution

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2024 fixed 2 actively exploited zero-days

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U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows and Rejetto HTTP File Server bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Evolve Bank data breach impacted over 7.6 million individuals

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More than 31 million customer email addresses exposed following Neiman Marcus data breach

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Avast released a decryptor for DoNex Ransomware and its predecessors

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RockYou2024 compilation containing 10 billion passwords was leaked online

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Critical Ghostscript flaw exploited in the wild. Patch it now!

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Apple removed 25 VPN apps from the App Store in Russia following Moscow's requests

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CISA adds Cisco NX-OS Command Injection bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Apache fixed a source code disclosure flaw in Apache HTTP Server

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Security Affairs Malware Newsletter - Round 1

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 479 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Alabama State Department of Education suffered a data breach following a blocked attack

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GootLoader is still active and efficient

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Hackers stole OpenAI secrets in a 2023 security breach

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Hackers leak 170k Taylor Swift’s ERAS Tour Barcodes

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Polyfill.io Supply Chain Attack: 384,773 hosts still embedding a polyfill JS script linking to the malicious domain

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New Golang-based Zergeca Botnet appeared in the threat landscape

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Microsoft discloses 2 flaws in Rockwell Automation PanelView Plus

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Hackers compromised Ethereum mailing list and launched a crypto draining attack

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OVHcloud mitigated a record-breaking DDoS attack in April 2024

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Healthcare fintech firm HealthEquity disclosed a data breach

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Brazil data protection authority bans Meta from training AI models with data originating in the country

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Splunk fixed tens of flaws in Splunk Enterprise and Cloud Platform

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Operation Morpheus took down 593 Cobalt Strike servers used by threat actors

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LockBit group claims the hack of the Fairfield Memorial Hospital in the US

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American Patelco Credit Union suffered a ransomware attack

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Polish government investigates Russia-linked cyberattack on state news agency

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Evolve Bank data breach impacted fintech firms Wise and Affirm

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Prudential Financial data breach impacted over 2.5 million individuals

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Australian man charged for Evil Twin Wi-Fi attacks on domestic flights

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China-linked APT exploited Cisco NX-OS zero-day to deploy custom malware

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Critical unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in OpenSSH server

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Monti gang claims the hack of the Wayne Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania

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Threat actors actively exploit D-Link DIR-859 router flaw CVE-2024-0769

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Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard stole email of more Microsoft customers

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Russia-linked group APT29 likely breached TeamViewer's corporate network

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 478 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Infosys McCamish Systems data breach impacted over 6 million people

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A cyberattack shut down the University Hospital Centre Zagreb in Croatia

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US announces a $10M reward for Russia's GRU hacker behind attacks on Ukraine

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LockBit group falsely claimed the hack of the Federal Reserve

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CISA adds GeoSolutionsGroup JAI-EXT, Linux Kernel, and Roundcube Webmail bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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New P2Pinfect version delivers miners and ransomware on Redis servers

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New MOVEit Transfer critical bug is actively exploited

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New Caesar Cipher Skimmer targets popular CMS used by e-stores

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Mirai-like botnet is exploiting recently disclosed Zyxel NAS flaw

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is free

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CISA confirmed that its CSAT environment was breached in January.

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Threat actors compromised 1,590 CoinStats crypto wallets

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Experts observed approximately 120 malicious campaigns using the Rafel RAT

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LockBit claims the hack of the US Federal Reserve

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Ransomware threat landscape Jan-Apr 2024: insights and challenges

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ExCobalt Cybercrime group targets Russian organizations in multiple sectors

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Threat actor attempts to sell 30 million customer records allegedly stolen from TEG

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 477 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Threat actors are actively exploiting SolarWinds Serv-U bug CVE-2024-28995

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US government sanctions twelve Kaspersky Lab executives

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Experts found a bug in the Linux version of RansomHub ransomware

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UEFICANHAZBUFFEROVERFLOW flaw in Phoenix SecureCore UEFI firmware potentially impacts hundreds of PC and server models

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Russia-linked APT Nobelium targets French diplomatic entities

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US bans sale of Kaspersky products due to risks to national security

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Atlassian fixed six high-severity bugs in Confluence Data Center and Server

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China-linked spies target Asian Telcos since at least 2021

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New Rust infostealer Fickle Stealer spreads through various attack methods

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An unpatched bug allows anyone to impersonate Microsoft corporate email accounts

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Smishing Triad Is Targeting Pakistan To Defraud Banking Customers At Scale

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Alleged researchers stole $3 million from Kraken exchange

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Google Chrome 126 update addresses multiple high-severity flaws

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Chip maker giant AMD investigates a data breach

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Cryptojacking campaign targets exposed Docker APIs

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VMware fixed RCE and privilege escalation bugs in vCenter Server

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Meta delays training its AI using public content shared by EU users

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Keytronic confirms data breach after ransomware attack

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The Financial Dynamics Behind Ransomware Attacks

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Empire Market owners charged with operating $430M dark web marketplace

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China-linked Velvet Ant uses F5 BIG-IP malware in cyber espionage campaign

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LA County’s Department of Public Health (DPH) data breach impacted over 200,000 individuals

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Spanish police arrested an alleged member of the Scattered Spider group

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Online job offers, the reshipping and money mule scams

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 476 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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ASUS fixed critical remote authentication bypass bug in several routers

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London hospitals canceled over 800 operations in the week after Synnovis ransomware attack

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DORA Compliance Strategy for Business Leaders

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CISA adds Android Pixel, Microsoft Windows, Progress Telerik Report Server bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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City of Cleveland still working to fully restore systems impacted by a cyber attack

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Google fixed an actively exploited zero-day in the Pixel Firmware

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Multiple flaws in Fortinet FortiOS fixed

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CISA adds Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver, PHP bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Ukraine Police arrested a hacker who developed a crypter used by Conti and LockBit ransomware operation

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JetBrains fixed IntelliJ IDE flaw exposing GitHub access tokens

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2024 fixed only one critical issue

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Cylance confirms the legitimacy of data offered for sale in the dark web

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Arm zero-day in Mali GPU Drivers actively exploited in the wild

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Expert released PoC exploit code for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager flaw CVE-2024-29849. Patch it now!

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Japanese video-sharing platform Niconico was victim of a cyber attack

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UK NHS call for O-type blood donations following ransomware attack on London hospitals

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Christie’s data breach impacted 45,798 individuals

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Sticky Werewolf targets the aviation industry in Russia and Belarus

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Frontier Communications data breach impacted over 750,000 individuals

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PHP addressed critical RCE flaw potentially impacting millions of servers

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 475 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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SolarWinds fixed multiple flaws in Serv-U and SolarWinds Platform

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Pandabuy was extorted twice by the same threat actor

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UAC-0020 threat actor used the SPECTR Malware to target Ukraine's defense forces

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A new Linux version of TargetCompany ransomware targets VMware ESXi environments

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FBI obtained 7,000 LockBit decryption keys, victims should contact the feds to get support

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RansomHub operation is a rebranded version of the Knight RaaS

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Malware can steal data collected by the Windows Recall tool, experts warn

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Cisco addressed Webex flaws used to compromise German government meetings

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CNN, Paris Hilton, and Sony TikTok accounts hacked via DMs

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Zyxel addressed three RCEs in end-of-life NAS devices

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A ransomware attack on Synnovis impacted several London hospitals

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RansomHub gang claims the hack of the telecommunications giant Frontier Communications

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Cybercriminals attack banking customers in EU with V3B phishing kit - PhotoTAN and SmartID supported.

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Experts released PoC exploit code for a critical bug in Progress Telerik Report Servers

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Multiple flaws in Cox modems could have impacted millions of devices

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CISA adds Oracle WebLogic Server flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Spanish police shut down illegal TV streaming network

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APT28 targets key networks in Europe with HeadLace malware

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Experts found information of European politicians on the dark web

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FlyingYeti targets Ukraine using WinRAR exploit to deliver COOKBOX Malware

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 474 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Ticketmaster confirms data breach impacting 560 million customers

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Critical Apache Log4j2 flaw still threatens global finance

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Crooks stole more than $300M worth of Bitcoin from the exchange DMM Bitcoin

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ShinyHunters is selling data of 30 million Santander customers

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Over 600,000 SOHO routers were destroyed by Chalubo malware in 72 hours

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LilacSquid APT targeted organizations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia since at least 2021

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BBC disclosed a data breach impacting its Pension Scheme members

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CISA adds Check Point Quantum Security Gateways and Linux Kernel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Experts found a macOS version of the sophisticated LightSpy spyware

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Operation Endgame, the largest law enforcement operation ever against botnets

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Law enforcement operation dismantled 911 S5 botnet

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Okta warns of credential stuffing attacks targeting its Cross-Origin Authentication feature

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Check Point released hotfix for actively exploited VPN zero-day

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ABN Amro discloses data breach following an attack on a third-party provider

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Christie disclosed a data breach after a RansomHub attack

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Experts released PoC exploit code for RCE in Fortinet SIEM

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WordPress Plugin abused to install e-skimmers in e-commerce sites

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TP-Link Archer C5400X gaming router is affected by a critical flaw

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Sav-Rx data breach impacted over 2.8 million individuals

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The Impact of Remote Work and Cloud Migrations on Security Perimeters

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New ATM Malware family emerged in the threat landscape

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A high-severity vulnerability affects Cisco Firepower Management Center

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CERT-UA warns of malware campaign conducted by threat actor UAC-0006

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 473 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Malware-laced JAVS Viewer deploys RustDoor implant in supply chain attack

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Fake AV websites used to distribute info-stealer malware

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MITRE December 2023 attack: Threat actors created rogue VMs to evade detection

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An XSS flaw in GitLab allows attackers to take over accounts

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Google fixes eighth actively exploited Chrome zero-day this year, the third in a month

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CISA adds Apache Flink flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Usage of TLS in DDNS Services leads to Information Disclosure in Multiple Vendors

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Recall feature in Microsoft Copilot+ PCs raises privacy and security concerns

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APT41: The threat of KeyPlug against Italian industries

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Critical SQL Injection flaws impact Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM)

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Chinese actor 'Unfading Sea Haze' remained undetected for five years

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A consumer-grade spyware app found in check-in systems of 3 US hotels

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Critical Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager authentication bypass bug

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Cybercriminals are targeting elections in India with influence campaigns

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Critical GitHub Enterprise Server Authentication Bypass bug. Fix it now!

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OmniVision disclosed a data breach after the 2023 Cactus ransomware attack

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CISA adds NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Blackbasta group claims to have hacked Atlas, one of the largest US oil distributors

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Experts warn of a flaw in Fluent Bit utility that is used by major cloud platforms and firms

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Experts released PoC exploit code for RCE in QNAP QTS

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GitCaught campaign relies on Github and Filezilla to deliver multiple malware

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Two students uncovered a flaw that allows to use laundry machines for free

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Grandoreiro Banking Trojan is back and targets banks worldwide

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Healthcare firm WebTPA data breach impacted 2.5 million individuals

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 472 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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North Korea-linked Kimsuky used a new Linux backdoor in recent attacks

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North Korea-linked IT workers infiltrated hundreds of US firms

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Turla APT used two new backdoors to infiltrate a European ministry of foreign affairs

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City of Wichita disclosed a data breach after the recent ransomware attack

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CISA adds D-Link DIR router flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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CISA adds Google Chrome zero-days to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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North Korea-linked Kimsuky APT attack targets victims via Messenger

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Electronic prescription provider MediSecure impacted by a ransomware attack

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Google fixes seventh actively exploited Chrome zero-day this year, the third in a week

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Santander: a data breach at a third-party provider impacted customers and employees

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FBI seized the notorious BreachForums hacking forum

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A Tornado Cash developer has been sentenced to 64 months in prison

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Adobe fixed multiple critical flaws in Acrobat and Reader

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Ransomware attack on Singing River Health System impacted 895,000 people

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for May 2024 fixes 2 actively exploited zero-days

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VMware fixed zero-day flaws demonstrated at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024

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MITRE released EMB3D Threat Model for embedded devices

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Google fixes sixth actively exploited Chrome zero-day this year

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Phorpiex botnet sent millions of phishing emails to deliver LockBit Black ransomware

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Threat actors may have exploited a zero-day in older iPhones, Apple warns

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City of Helsinki suffered a data breach

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Russian hackers defaced local British news sites

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Australian Firstmac Limited disclosed a data breach after cyber attack

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Pro-Russia hackers targeted Kosovo’s government websites

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 471 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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As of May 2024, Black Basta ransomware affiliates hacked over 500 organizations worldwide

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Ohio Lottery data breach impacted over 538,000 individuals

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Notorius threat actor IntelBroker claims the hack of the Europol

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A cyberattack hit the US healthcare giant Ascension

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Google fixes fifth actively exploited Chrome zero-day this year

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Russia-linked APT28 targets government Polish institutions

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Citrix warns customers to update PuTTY version installed on their XenCenter system manually

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Dell discloses data breach impacting millions of customers

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Mirai botnet also spreads through the exploitation of Ivanti Connect Secure bugs

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Zscaler is investigating data breach claims

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Experts warn of two BIG-IP Next Central Manager flaws that allow device takeover

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LockBit gang claimed responsibility for the attack on City of Wichita

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New TunnelVision technique can bypass the VPN encapsulation

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LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin actively exploited in the wild

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Most Tinyproxy Instances are potentially vulnerable to flaw CVE-2023-49606

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UK Ministry of Defense disclosed a third-party data breach exposing military personnel data

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Law enforcement agencies identified LockBit ransomware admin and sanctioned him

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MITRE attributes the recent attack to China-linked UNC5221

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Alexander Vinnik, the operator of BTC-e exchange, pleaded guilty to money laundering

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City of Wichita hit by a ransomware attack

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El Salvador suffered a massive leak of biometric data

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Finland authorities warn of Android malware campaign targeting bank users

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NATO and the EU formally condemned Russia-linked APT28 cyber espionage

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 470 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Blackbasta gang claimed responsibility for Synlab Italia attack

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LockBit published data stolen from Simone Veil hospital in Cannes

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Russia-linked APT28 and crooks are still using the Moobot botnet

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Dirty stream attack poses billions of Android installs at risk

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ZLoader Malware adds Zeus's anti-analysis feature

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Ukrainian REvil gang member sentenced to 13 years in prison

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HPE Aruba Networking addressed four critical ArubaOS RCE flaws

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Threat actors hacked the Dropbox Sign production environment

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CISA adds GitLab flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Panda Restaurant Group disclosed a data breach

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Ex-NSA employee sentenced to 262 months in prison for attempting to transfer classified documents to Russia

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Cuttlefish malware targets enterprise-grade SOHO routers

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A flaw in the R programming language could allow code execution

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Muddling Meerkat, a mysterious DNS Operation involving China's Great Firewall

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Notorious Finnish Hacker sentenced to more than six years in prison

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CISA guidelines to protect critical infrastructure against AI-based threats

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NCSC: New UK law bans default passwords on smart devices

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The FCC imposes $200 million in fines on four US carriers for unlawfully sharing user location data

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Google prevented 2.28 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play in 2023

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Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) data breach impacted 2M individuals

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Cyber-Partisans hacktivists claim to have breached Belarus KGB

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The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services disclosed a data breach

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Multiple Brocade SANnav SAN Management SW flaws allow device compromise

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ICICI Bank exposed credit card data of 17000 customers

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Okta warns of unprecedented scale in credential stuffing attacks on online services

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 469 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Targeted operation against Ukraine exploited 7-year-old MS Office bug

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Hackers may have accessed thousands of accounts on the California state welfare platform

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Brokewell Android malware supports an extensive set of Device Takeover capabilities

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Experts warn of an ongoing malware campaign targeting WP-Automatic plugin

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Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling

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Kaiser Permanente data breach may have impacted 13.4 million patients

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Over 1,400 CrushFTP internet-facing servers vulnerable to CVE-2024-4040 bug

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Sweden’s liquor supply severely impacted by ransomware attack on logistics company

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CISA adds Cisco ASA and FTD and CrushFTP VFS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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CISA adds Microsoft Windows Print Spooler flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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DOJ arrested the founders of crypto mixer Samourai for facilitating $2 Billion in illegal transactions

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Google fixed critical Chrome vulnerability CVE-2024-4058

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Nation-state actors exploited two zero-days in ASA and FTD firewalls to breach government networks

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Hackers hijacked the eScan Antivirus update mechanism in malware campaign

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US offers a $10 million reward for information on four Iranian nationals

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The street lights in Leicester City cannot be turned off due to a cyber attack

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North Korea-linked APT groups target South Korean defense contractors

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U.S. Gov imposed Visa restrictions on 13 individuals linked to commercial spyware activity

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A cyber attack paralyzed operations at Synlab Italia

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Russia-linked APT28 used post-compromise tool GooseEgg to exploit CVE-2022-38028 Windows flaw

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Hackers threaten to leak a copy of the World-Check database used to assess potential risks associated with entities

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A flaw in the Forminator plugin impacts hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites

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Akira ransomware received $42M in ransom payments from over 250 victims

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DuneQuixote campaign targets the Middle East with a complex backdoor

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 468 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Critical CrushFTP zero-day exploited in attacks in the wild

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A French hospital was forced to reschedule procedures after cyberattack

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MITRE revealed that nation-state actors breached its systems via Ivanti zero-days

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FBI chief says China is preparing to attack US critical infrastructure

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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) investigates data breach

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FIN7 targeted a large U.S. carmaker with phishing attacks

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Law enforcement operation dismantled phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost

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Previously unknown Kapeka backdoor linked to Russian Sandworm APT

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Cisco warns of a command injection escalation flaw in its IMC. PoC publicly available

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Linux variant of Cerber ransomware targets Atlassian servers

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Ivanti fixed two critical flaws in its Avalanche MDM

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Researchers released exploit code for actively exploited Palo Alto PAN-OS bug

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Cisco warns of large-scale brute-force attacks against VPN and SSH services

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PuTTY SSH Client flaw allows of private keys recovery

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A renewed espionage campaign targets South Asia with iOS spyware LightSpy

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Misinformation and hacktivist campaigns targeting the Philippines skyrocket

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Russia is trying to sabotage European railways, Czech minister said

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Ransomware group Dark Angels claims the theft of 1TB of data from chipmaker Nexperia

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Cisco Duo warns telephony supplier data breach exposed MFA SMS logs

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Ukrainian Blackjack group used ICS malware Fuxnet against Russian targets

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CISA adds Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Command Injection flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Threat actors exploited Palo Alto Pan-OS issue to deploy a Python Backdoor

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U.S. and Australian police arrested Firebird RAT author and operator

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Canadian retail chain Giant Tiger data breach may have impacted millions of customers

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 467 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Crooks manipulate GitHub's search results to distribute malware

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BatBadBut flaw allowed an attacker to perform command injection on Windows

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Roku disclosed a new security breach impacting 576,000 accounts

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LastPass employee targeted via an audio deepfake call

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TA547 targets German organizations with Rhadamanthys malware

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CISA adds D-Link multiple NAS devices bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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US CISA published an alert on the Sisense data breach

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Palo Alto Networks fixed multiple DoS bugs in its firewalls

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Apple warns of mercenary spyware attacks on iPhone users in 92 countries

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Microsoft fixed two zero-day bugs exploited in malware attacks

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Group Health Cooperative data breach impacted 530,000 individuals

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AT&T states that the data breach impacted 51 million former and current customers

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Fortinet fixed a critical remote code execution bug in FortiClientLinux

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Microsoft Patches Tuesday security updates for April 2024 fixed hundreds of issues

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Cybersecurity in the Evolving Threat Landscape

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Over 91,000 LG smart TVs running webOS are vulnerable to hacking

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ScrubCrypt used to drop VenomRAT along with many malicious plugins

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Google announces V8 Sandbox to protect Chrome users

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China is using generative AI to carry out influence operations

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Greylock McKinnon Associates data breach exposed DOJ data of 341650 people

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Crowdfense is offering a larger 30M USD exploit acquisition program

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U.S. Department of Health warns of attacks against IT help desks

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 466 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Over 92,000 Internet-facing D-Link NAS devices can be easily hacked

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More than 16,000 Ivanti VPN gateways still vulnerable to RCE CVE-2024-21894

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Cisco warns of XSS flaw in end-of-life small business routers

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Magento flaw exploited to deploy persistent backdoor hidden in XML

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Cyberattack disrupted services at Omni Hotels & Resorts

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HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood technique can be exploited in DoS attacks

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US cancer center City of Hope: data breach impacted 827149 individuals

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Ivanti fixed for 4 new issues in Connect Secure and Policy Secure

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Jackson County, Missouri, discloses a ransomware attack

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Google addressed another Chrome zero-day exploited at Pwn2Own in March

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The New Version of JsOutProx is Attacking Financial Institutions in APAC and MENA via Gitlab Abuse

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Google fixed two actively exploited Pixel vulnerabilities

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Highly sensitive files mysteriously disappeared from EUROPOL headquarters

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XSS flaw in WordPress WP-Members Plugin can lead to script injection

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Binarly released the free online scanner to detect the CVE-2024-3094 Backdoor

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Google agreed to erase billions of browser records to settle a class action lawsuit

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PandaBuy data breach allegedly impacted over 1.3 million customers

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OWASP discloses a data breach

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New Vultur malware version includes enhanced remote control and evasion capabilities

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Pentagon established the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy

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Info stealer attacks target macOS users

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 465 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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DinodasRAT Linux variant targets users worldwide

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AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million customers

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Expert found a backdoor in XZ tools used many Linux distributions

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German BSI warns of 17,000 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers

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Cisco warns of password-spraying attacks targeting Secure Firewall devices

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American fast-fashion firm Hot Topic hit by credential stuffing attacks

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Cisco addressed high-severity flaws in IOS and IOS XE software

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Google: China dominates government exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023

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Google addressed 2 Chrome zero-days demonstrated at Pwn2Own 2024

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CISA adds Microsoft SharePoint bug disclosed at Pwn2Own to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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The DDR Advantage: Real-Time Data Defense

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Finnish police linked APT31 to the 2021 parliament attack

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TheMoon bot infected 40,000 devices in January and February

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UK, New Zealand against China-linked cyber operations

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US Treasury Dep announced sanctions against members of China-linked APT31

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CISA adds FortiClient EMS, Ivanti EPM CSA, Nice Linear eMerge E3-Series bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Iran-Linked APT TA450 embeds malicious links in PDF attachments

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StrelaStealer targeted over 100 organizations across the EU and US

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GoFetch side-channel attack against Apple systems allows secret keys extraction

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 464 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Cybercriminals Accelerate Online Scams During Ramadan and Eid Fitr

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Russia-linked APT29 targeted German political parties with WINELOADER backdoor

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Mozilla fixed Firefox zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024

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Large-scale Sign1 malware campaign already infected 39,000+ WordPress sites

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German police seized the darknet marketplace Nemesis Market

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Unsaflok flaws allow to open millions of doors using Dormakaba Saflok electronic locks

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Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024: participants earned $1,132,500 for 29 unique 0-days

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Critical Fortinet's FortiClient EMS flaw actively exploited in the wild

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Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 Day 1 - team Synacktiv hacked a Tesla

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New Loop DoS attack may target 300,000 vulnerable hosts

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Critical flaw in Atlassian Bamboo Data Center and Server must be fixed immediately

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Threat actors actively exploit JetBrains TeamCity flaws to deliver malware

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BunnyLoader 3.0 surfaces in the threat landscape

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Pokemon Company resets some users' passwords

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Ukraine cyber police arrested crooks selling 100 million compromised accounts

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New AcidPour wiper targets Linux x86 devices. Is it a Russia's weapon?

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Players hacked during the matches of Apex Legends Global Series. Tournament suspended

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Earth Krahang APT breached tens of government organizations worldwide

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PoC exploit for critical RCE flaw in Fortra FileCatalyst transfer tool released

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Fujitsu suffered a malware attack and probably a data breach

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Remove WordPress miniOrange plugins, a critical flaw can allow site takeover

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The Aviation and Aerospace Sectors Face Skyrocketing Cyber Threats

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Email accounts of the International Monetary Fund compromised

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Threat actors leaked 70,000,000+ records allegedly stolen from AT&T

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“gitgub” malware campaign targets Github users with RisePro info-stealer

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 463 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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France Travail data breach impacted 43 Million people

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Scranton School District in Pennsylvania suffered a ransomware attack

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Lazarus APT group returned to Tornado Cash to launder stolen funds

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Moldovan citizen sentenced in connection with the E-Root cybercrime marketplace case

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UK Defence Secretary jet hit by an electronic warfare attack in Poland

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Cisco fixed high-severity elevation of privilege and DoS bugs

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Recent DarkGate campaign exploited Microsoft Windows zero-day

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Nissan Oceania data breach impacted roughly 100,000 people

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Researchers found multiple flaws in ChatGPT plugins

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Fortinet fixes critical bugs in FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiClientEMS

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Acer Philippines disclosed a data breach after a third-party vendor hack

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Stanford University announced that 27,000 individuals were impacted in the 2023 ransomware attack

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2024 fixed 59 flaws

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Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) alleges US is plotting to interfere in presidential election

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First-ever South Korean national detained for espionage in Russia

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Insurance scams via QR codes: how to recognise and defend yourself

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Massive cyberattacks hit French government agencies

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BianLian group exploits JetBrains TeamCity bugs in ransomware attacks

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Experts released PoC exploit for critical Progress Software OpenEdge bug

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Magnet Goblin group used a new Linux variant of NerbianRAT malware

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Hackers exploited WordPress Popup Builder plugin flaw to compromise 3,300 sites

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Lithuania security services warn of China's espionage against the country

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 462 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Threat actors breached two crucial systems of the US CISA

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CISA adds JetBrains TeamCity bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Critical Fortinet FortiOS bug CVE-2024-21762 potentially impacts 150,000 internet-facing devices

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QNAP fixed three flaws in its NAS devices, including an authentication bypass

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Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard breached Microsoft systems again

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Cisco addressed severe flaws in its Secure Client

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Play ransomware attack on Xplain exposed 65,000 files containing data relevant to the Swiss Federal Administration.

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2023 FBI Internet Crime Report reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 billion in 2023

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National intelligence agency of Moldova warns of Russia attacks ahead of the presidential election

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CISA adds Apple iOS and iPadOS memory corruption bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

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Linux Malware targets misconfigured misconfigured Apache Hadoop, Confluence, Docker, and Redis servers

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CISA ADDS ANDROID PIXEL AND SUNHILLO SURELINE BUGS TO ITS KNOWN EXPLOITED VULNERABILITIES CATALOG

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Watch out, GhostSec and Stourmous groups jointly conducting ransomware attacks

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LockBit 3.0’s Bungled Comeback Highlights the Undying Risk of Torrent-Based (P2P) Data Leakage

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Apple emergency security updates fix two new iOS zero-days

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VMware urgent updates addressed Critical ESXi Sandbox Escape bugs

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US Gov sanctioned Intellexa Consortium individuals and entities behind Predator spyware attacks

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CISA ADDS MICROSOFT WINDOWS KERNEL BUG USED BY LAZARUS APT TO ITS KNOWN EXPLOITED VULNERABILITIES CATALOG

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Experts disclosed two severe flaws in JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises software

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Ukraine's GUR hacked the Russian Ministry of Defense

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Some American Express customers' data exposed in a third-party data breach

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META hit with privacy complaints by EU consumer groups

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New GTPDOOR backdoor is designed to target telecom carrier networks

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Threat actors hacked Taiwan-based Chunghwa Telecom

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New Linux variant of BIFROSE RAT uses deceptive domain strategies

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Eken camera doorbells allow ill-intentioned individuals to spy on you

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 461 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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U.S. Judge ordered NSO Group to hand over the Pegasus spyware code to WhatsApp

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U.S. authorities charged an Iranian national for long-running hacking campaign

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US cyber and law enforcement agencies warn of Phobos ransomware attacks

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Police seized Crimemarket, the largest German-speaking cybercrime marketplace

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Five Eyes alliance warns of attacks exploiting known Ivanti Gateway flaws

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Crooks stole €15 Million from European retail company Pepco

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CISA adds Microsoft Streaming Service bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Researchers found a zero-click Facebook account takeover

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New SPIKEDWINE APT group is targeting officials in Europe

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Is the LockBit gang resuming its operation?

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Lazarus APT exploited zero-day in Windows driver to gain kernel privileges

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Pharmaceutical giant Cencora discloses a data breach

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Unmasking 2024's Email Security Landscape

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FBI, CISA, HHS warn of targeted ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware attacks against the healthcare sector

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Russia-linked APT28 compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to facilitate cyber operations

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Black Basta and Bl00dy ransomware gangs exploit recent ConnectWise ScreenConnect bugs

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XSS flaw in LiteSpeed Cache plugin exposes millions of WordPress sites at risk

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 460 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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US GOV OFFERS A REWARD OF UP TO $15M FOR INFO ON LOCKBIT GANG MEMBERS AND AFFILIATES

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New Redis miner Migo uses novel system weakening techniques

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Critical flaw found in deprecated VMware EAP. Uninstall it immediately

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Microsoft Exchange flaw CVE-2024-21410 could impact up to 97,000 servers

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ConnectWise fixed critical flaws in ScreenConnect remote access tool

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More details about Operation Cronos that disrupted Lockbit operation

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Cactus ransomware gang claims the theft of 1.5TB of data from Energy management and industrial automation firm Schneider Electric

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Operation Cronos: law enforcement disrupted the LockBit operation

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A Ukrainian Raccoon Infostealer operator is awaiting trial in the US

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Russia-linked APT TAG-70 targets European government and military mail servers exploiting Roundcube XSS

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How BRICS Got "Rug Pulled" – Cryptocurrency Counterfeiting is on the Rise

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SolarWinds addressed critical RCEs in Access Rights Manager (ARM)

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ESET fixed high-severity local privilege escalation bug in Windows products

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 459 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Ukrainian national faces up to 20 years in prison for his role in Zeus, IcedID malware schemes

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CISA: Cisco ASA/FTD bug CVE-2020-3259 exploited in ransomware attacks

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CISA adds Microsoft Exchange and Cisco ASA and FTD bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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US gov offers a reward of up to $10M for info on ALPHV/Blackcat gang leaders

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U.S. CISA: hackers breached a state government organization

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Russia-linked Turla APT uses new TinyTurla-NG backdoor to spy on Polish NGOs

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US Gov dismantled the Moobot botnet controlled by Russia-linked APT28

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A cyberattack halted operations at Varta production plants

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North Korea-linked actors breached the emails of a Presidential Office member

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CISA adds Microsoft Windows bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Nation-state actors are using AI services and LLMs for cyberattacks

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Abusing the Ubuntu 'command-not-found' utility to install malicious packages

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Zoom fixed critical flaw CVE-2024-24691 in Windows software

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Adobe Patch Tuesday fixed critical vulnerabilities in Magento, Acrobat and Reader

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2024 fixed 2 actively exploited 0-days

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A ransomware attack took 100 Romanian hospitals down

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Bank of America customer data compromised after a third-party services provider data breach

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Ransomfeed - Third Quarter Report 2023 is out!

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Global Malicious Activity Targeting Elections is Skyrocketing

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Researchers released a free decryption tool for the Rhysida Ransomware

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Residential Proxies vs. Datacenter Proxies: Choosing the Right Option

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CISA adds Roundcube Webmail Persistent XSS bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Canada Gov plans to ban the Flipper Zero to curb car thefts

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9 Possible Ways Hackers Can Use Public Wi-Fi to Steal Your Sensitive Data

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US Feds arrested two men involved in the Warzone RAT operation

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Raspberry Robin spotted using two new 1-day LPE exploits

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 458 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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CISA adds Fortinet FortiOS bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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macOS Backdoor RustDoor likely linked to Alphv/BlackCat ransomware operations

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Exploiting a vulnerable Minifilter Driver to create a process killer

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Black Basta ransomware gang hacked Hyundai Motor Europe

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Fortinet warns of a new actively exploited RCE flaw in FortiOS SSL VPN

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Ivanti warns of a new auth bypass flaw in its Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA gateway devices

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26 Cyber Security Stats Every User Should Be Aware Of in 2024

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US offers $10 million reward for info on Hive ransomware group leaders

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Unraveling the truth behind the DDoS attack from electric toothbrushes

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China-linked APT Volt Typhoon remained undetected for years in US infrastructure

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Cisco fixes critical Expressway Series CSRF vulnerabilities

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CISA adds Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Fortinet addressed two critical FortiSIEM vulnerabilities

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Experts warn of a critical bug in JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises

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Critical shim bug impacts every Linux boot loader signed in the past decade

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China-linked APT deployed malware in a network of the Dutch Ministry of Defence

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Commercial spyware vendors are behind most zero-day exploits discovered by Google TAG

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Google fixed an Android critical remote code execution flaw

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A man faces up to 25 years in prison for his role in operating unlicensed crypto exchange BTC-e

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U.S. Gov imposes visa restrictions on individuals misusing Commercial Spyware

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HPE is investigating claims of a new security breach

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Experts warn of a surge of attacks targeting Ivanti SSRF flaw

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How to hack the Airbus NAVBLUE Flysmart+ Manager

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Crooks stole $25.5 million from a multinational firm using a 'deepfake' video call

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Software firm AnyDesk disclosed a security breach

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The 'Mother of all Breaches': Navigating the Aftermath and Fortifying Your Data with DSPM

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US government imposed sanctions on six Iranian intel officials

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A cyberattack impacted operations at Lurie Children's Hospital

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AnyDesk Incident: Customer Credentials Leaked and Published for Sale on the Dark Web

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 457 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Clorox estimates the costs of the August cyberattack will exceed $49 Million

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Mastodon fixed a flaw that can allow the takeover of any account

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Iranian hackers breached Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)

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Operation Synergia led to the arrest of 31 individuals

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Ex CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte sentenced to 40 years in prison

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Cloudflare breached on Thanksgiving Day, but the attack was promptly contained

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PurpleFox malware infected at least 2,000 computers in Ukraine

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Man sentenced to six years in prison for stealing millions in cryptocurrency via SIM swapping

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CISA orders federal agencies to disconnect Ivanti VPN instances by February 2

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Multiple malware used in attacks exploiting Ivanti VPN flaws

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Police seized 50,000 Bitcoin from operator of the now-defunct piracy site movie2k

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Crooks stole around $112 million worth of XRP from Ripple’s co-founder

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CISA adds Apple improper authentication bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Ivanti warns of a new actively exploited zero-day

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Threat actors exploit Ivanti VPN bugs to deploy KrustyLoader Malware

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Data leak at fintech giant Direct Trading Technologies

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Root access vulnerability in GNU Library C (glibc) impacts many Linux distros

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Italian data protection authority said that ChatGPT violated EU privacy laws

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750 million Indian mobile subscribers' data offered for sale on dark web

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Juniper Networks released out-of-band updates to fix high-severity flaws

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Hundreds of network operators’ credentials found circulating in Dark Web

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Cactus ransomware gang claims the Schneider Electric hack

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Mercedes-Benz accidentally exposed sensitive data, including source code

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Experts detailed Microsoft Outlook flaw that can leak NTLM v2 hashed passwords

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NSA buys internet browsing records from data brokers without a warrant

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Ukraine’s SBU arrested a member of Pro-Russia hackers group 'Cyber Army of Russia'

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Multiple PoC exploits released for Jenkins flaw CVE-2024-23897

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Medusa ransomware attack hit Kansas City Area Transportation Authority

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 456 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Pro-Ukraine hackers wiped 2 petabytes of data from Russian research center

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Participants earned more than $1.3M at the Pwn2Own Automotive competition

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A TrickBot malware developer sentenced to 64 months in prison

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Russian Midnight Blizzard APT is targeting orgs worldwide, Microsoft warns

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Watch out, experts warn of a critical flaw in Jenkins

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Pwn2Own Automotive 2024 Day 2 - Tesla hacked again

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Yearly Intel Trend Review: The 2023 RedSense report

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Cisco warns of a critical bug in Unified Communications products, patch it now!

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Russia-linked APT group Midnight Blizzard hacked Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

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CISA adds Atlassian Confluence Data Center bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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5379 GitLab servers vulnerable to zero-click account takeover attacks

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Experts released PoC exploit for Fortra GoAnywhere MFT flaw CVE-2024-0204

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Splunk fixed high-severity flaw impacting Windows versions

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Watch out, a new critical flaw affects Fortra GoAnywhere MFT

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Australian government announced sanctions for Medibank hacker

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LoanDepot data breach impacted roughly 16.6 individuals

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Black Basta gang claims the hack of the UK water utility Southern Water

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CISA adds VMware vCenter Server bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Mother of all breaches - a historic data leak reveals 26 billion records: check what's exposed

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Apple fixed actively exploited zero-day CVE-2024-23222

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“My Slice”, an Italian adaptive phishing campaign

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Threat actors exploit Apache ActiveMQ flaw to deliver the Godzilla Web Shell

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Cybercriminals leaked massive volumes of stolen PII data from Thailand in Dark Web

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Backdoored pirated applications targets Apple macOS users

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LockBit ransomware gang claims the attack on the sandwich chain Subway

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 455 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Admin of the BreachForums hacking forum sentenced to 20 years supervised release

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VF Corp December data breach impacts 35 million customers

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China-linked APT UNC3886 exploits VMware zero-day since 2021

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Ransomware attacks break records in 2023: the number of victims rose by 128%

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U.S. CISA warns of actively exploited Ivanti EPMM flaw CVE-2023-35082

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The Quantum Computing Cryptopocalypse – I’ll Know It When I See It

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Kansas State University suffered a serious cybersecurity incident

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CISA adds Chrome and Citrix NetScaler to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Google TAG warns that Russian COLDRIVER APT is using a custom backdoor

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PixieFail: Nine flaws in UEFI open-source reference implementation could have severe impacts

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iShutdown lightweight method allows to discover spyware infections on iPhones

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Pro-Russia group hit Swiss govt sites after Zelensky visit in Davos

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Github rotated credentials after the discovery of a vulnerability

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FBI, CISA warn of AndroxGh0st botnet for victim identification and exploitation

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Citrix warns admins to immediately patch NetScaler for actively exploited zero-days

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Google fixed the first actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2024

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Atlassian fixed critical RCE in older Confluence versions

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VMware fixed a critical flaw in Aria Automation. Patch it now!

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Experts warn of mass exploitation of Ivanti Connect Secure VPN flaws

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Experts warn of a vulnerability affecting Bosch BCC100 Thermostat

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Over 178,000 SonicWall next-generation firewalls (NGFW) online exposed to hack

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Phemedrone info stealer campaign exploits Windows smartScreen bypass

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Balada Injector continues to infect thousands of WordPress sites

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Attackers target Apache Hadoop and Flink to deliver cryptominers

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Apple fixed a bug in Magic Keyboard that allows to monitor Bluetooth traffic

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 454 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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GitLab fixed a critical zero-click account hijacking flaw

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Juniper Networks fixed a critical RCE bug in its firewalls and switches

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Vast Voter Data Leaks Cast Shadow Over Indonesia ’s 2024 Presidential Election

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Researchers created a PoC for Apache OFBiz flaw CVE-2023-51467

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Team Liquid’s wiki leak exposes 118K users

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CISA adds Ivanti and Microsoft SharePoint bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Two zero-day bugs in Ivanti Connect Secure actively exploited

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X Account of leading cybersecurity firm Mandiant was hacked because not adequately protected

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Cisco fixed critical Unity Connection vulnerability CVE-2024-20272

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ShinyHunters member sentenced to three years in prison

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HMG Healthcare disclosed a data breach

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Threat actors hacked the X account of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and announced fake Bitcoin ETF approval

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Decryptor for Tortilla variant of Babuk ransomware released

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2024 fixed 2 critical flaws

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CISA adds Apache Superset bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Syrian group Anonymous Arabic distributes stealthy malware Silver RAT

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Swiss Air Force sensitive files stolen in the hack of Ultra Intelligence & Communications

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DoJ charged 19 individuals in a transnational cybercrime investigation xDedic Marketplace

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Long-existing Bandook RAT targets Windows machines

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A cyber attack hit the Beirut International Airport

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Iranian crypto exchange Bit24.cash leaks user passports and IDs

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 453 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Turkish Sea Turtle APT targets Dutch IT and Telecom firms

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Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea

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Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4 billion claim over NotPetya damages

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The source code of Zeppelin Ransomware sold on a hacking forum

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Russia-linked APT Sandworm was inside Ukraine telecoms giant Kyivstar for months

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Ivanti fixed a critical EPM flaw that can result in remote code execution

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MyEstatePoint Property Search Android app leaks user passwords

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Hacker hijacked Orange Spain RIPE account causing internet outage to company customers

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HealthEC data breach impacted more than 4.5 Million people

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Experts found 3 malicious packages hiding crypto miners in PyPi repository

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Crooks hacked Mandiant X account to push cryptocurrency scam

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Cybercriminals Implemented Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Invoice Fraud

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CISA ADDS CHROME AND PERL LIBRARY FLAWS TO ITS KNOWN EXPLOITED VULNERABILITIES CATALOG

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Don’t trust links with known domains: BMW affected by redirect vulnerability

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Hackers stole more than $81 million worth of crypto assets from Orbit Chain

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Ukraine’s SBU said that Russia's intelligence hacked surveillance cameras to direct a missile strike on Kyiv

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Experts warn of JinxLoader loader used to spread Formbook and XLoader

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Terrapin attack allows to downgrade SSH protocol security

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Multiple organizations in Iran were breached by a mysterious hacker

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Top 2023 Security Affairs cybersecurity stories

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Malware exploits undocumented Google OAuth endpoint to regenerate Google cookies

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Cactus RANSOMWARE gang hit the Swedish retail and grocery provider Coop

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Google agreed to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 452 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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INC RANSOM ransomware gang claims to have breached Xerox Corp

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Spotify music converter TuneFab puts users at risk

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Cyber attacks hit the Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania

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Russia-linked APT28 used new malware in a recent phishing campaign

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Clash of Clans gamers at risk while using third-party app

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New Version of Meduza Stealer Released in Dark Web

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Operation Triangulation attacks relied on an undocumented hardware feature

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Cybercriminals launched “Leaksmas” event in the Dark Web exposing massive volumes of leaked PII and compromised data

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Lockbit ransomware attack interrupted medical emergencies gang at a German hospital network

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Experts warn of critical Zero-Day in Apache OfBiz

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Xamalicious Android malware distributed through the Play Store

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Barracuda fixed a new ESG zero-day exploited by Chinese group UNC4841

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Elections 2024, artificial intelligence could upset world balances

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Experts analyzed attacks against poorly managed Linux SSH servers

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A cyberattack hit Australian healthcare provider St Vincent’s Health Australia

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Rhysida ransomware group hacked Abdali Hospital in Jordan

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Carbanak malware returned in ransomware attacks

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Resecurity Released a 2024 Cyber Threat Landscape Forecast

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APT group UAC-0099 targets Ukraine exploiting a WinRAR flaw

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Iran-linked APT33 targets Defense Industrial Base sector with FalseFont backdoor

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 451 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Europol and ENISA spotted 443 e-stores compromised with digital skimming

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Video game giant Ubisoft investigates reports of a data breach

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LockBit ransomware gang claims to have breached accountancy firm Xeinadin

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Mobile virtual network operator Mint Mobile discloses a data breach

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Akira ransomware gang claims the theft of sensitive data from Nissan Australia

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Member of Lapsus$ gang sentenced to an indefinite hospital order

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Real estate agency exposes details of 690k customers

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ESET fixed a high-severity bug in the Secure Traffic Scanning Feature of several products

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Phishing attacks use an old Microsoft Office flaw to spread Agent Tesla malware

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Data leak exposes users of car-sharing service Blink Mobility

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Google addressed a new actively exploited Chrome zero-day

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German police seized the dark web marketplace Kingdom Market

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Law enforcement Operation HAECHI IV led to the seizure of $300 Million

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Sophisticated JaskaGO info stealer targets macOS and Windows

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BMW dealer at risk of takeover by cybercriminals

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Comcast’s Xfinity customer data exposed after CitrixBleed attack

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FBI claims to have dismantled AlphV/Blackcat ransomware operation, but the group denies it

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Smishing Triad: Cybercriminals Impersonate UAE Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship on the Peak of Holidays Season

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The ransomware attack on Westpole is disrupting digital services for Italian public administration

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Info stealers and how to protect against them

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Pro-Israel Predatory Sparrow hacker group disrupted services at around 70% of Iran’s fuel stations

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Qakbot is back and targets the Hospitality industry

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A supply chain attack on crypto hardware wallet Ledger led to the theft of $600K

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MongoDB investigates a cyberattack, customer data exposed

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InfectedSlurs botnet targets QNAP VioStor NVR vulnerability

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 450 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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New NKAbuse malware abuses NKN decentralized P2P network protocol

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Snatch ransomware gang claims the hack of the food giant Kraft Heinz

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Multiple flaws in pfSense firewall can lead to arbitrary code execution

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BianLian, White Rabbit, and Mario Ransomware Gangs Spotted in a Joint Campaign

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Data of over a million users of the crypto exchange GokuMarket exposed

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Idaho National Laboratory data breach impacted 45,047 individuals

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Ubiquiti users claim to have access to other people’s devices

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Russia-linked APT29 spotted targeting JetBrains TeamCity servers

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Microsoft seized the US infrastructure of the Storm-1152 cybercrime group

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French authorities arrested a Russian national for his role in the Hive ransomware operation

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China-linked APT Volt Typhoon linked to KV-Botnet

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UK Home Office is ignoring the risk of 'catastrophic ransomware attacks,' report warns

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OAuth apps used in cryptocurrency mining, phishing campaigns, and BEC attacks

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Sophos backports fix for CVE-2022-3236 for EOL firewall firmware versions due to ongoing attacks

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December 2023 Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixed 4 critical flaws

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Ukrainian military intelligence service hacked the Russian Federal Taxation Service

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Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile carrier brought down by a cyber attack

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Dubai’s largest taxi app exposes 220K+ users

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Operation Blacksmith: Lazarus exploits Log4j flaws to deploy DLang malware

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Apple released iOS 17.2 to address a dozen of security flaws

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Toyota Financial Services discloses a data breach

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Apache fixed Critical RCE flaw CVE-2023-50164 in Struts 2

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CISA adds Qlik Sense flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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CISA and ENISA signed a Working Arrangement to enhance cooperation

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Researcher discovered a new lock screen bypass bug for Android 14 and 13

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WordPress 6.4.2 fixed a Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 449 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Hacktivists hacked an Irish water utility and interrupted the water supply

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5Ghoul flaws impact hundreds of 5G devices with Qualcomm, MediaTek chips

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Norton Healthcare disclosed a data breach after a ransomware attack

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Bypassing major EDRs using Pool Party process injection techniques

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Founder of Bitzlato exchange has pleaded for unlicensed money transmitting

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Android barcode scanner app exposes user passwords

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UK and US expose Russia Callisto Group's activity and sanction members

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A cyber attack hit Nissan Oceania

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New Krasue Linux RAT targets telecom companies in Thailand

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Atlassian addressed four new RCE flaws in its products

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CISA adds Qualcomm flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Experts demonstrate a post-exploitation tampering technique to display Fake Lockdown mode

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GST Invoice Billing Inventory exposes sensitive data to threat actors

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Threat actors breached US govt systems by exploiting Adobe ColdFusion flaw

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ENISA published the ENISA Threat Landscape for DoS Attacks Report

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Russia-linked APT28 group spotted exploiting Outlook flaw to hijack MS Exchange accounts

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Google fixed critical zero-click RCE in Android

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New P2PInfect bot targets routers and IoT devices

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Malvertising attacks rely on DanaBot Trojan to spread CACTUS Ransomware

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LockBit on a Roll - ICBC Ransomware Attack Strikes at the Heart of the Global Financial Order

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Zyxel fixed tens of flaws in Firewalls, Access Points, and NAS devices

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New Agent Raccoon malware targets the Middle East, Africa and the US

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 448 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Researchers devised an attack technique to extract ChatGPT training data

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Fortune-telling website WeMystic exposes 13M+ user records

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Expert warns of Turtle macOS ransomware

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Black Basta Ransomware gang accumulated at least $107 million in Bitcoin ransom payments since early 2022

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CISA adds ownCloud and Google Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Apple addressed 2 new iOS zero-day vulnerabilities

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Critical Zoom Room bug allowed to gain access to Zoom Tenants

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Rhysida ransomware group hacked King Edward VII’s Hospital in London

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Google addressed the sixth Chrome Zero-Day vulnerability in 2023

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Okta reveals additional attackers' activities in October 2023 Breach

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Thousands of secrets lurk in app images on Docker Hub

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Threat actors started exploiting critical ownCloud flaw CVE-2023-49103

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International police operation dismantled a prominent Ukraine-based Ransomware group

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Daixin Team group claimed the hack of North Texas Municipal Water District

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Healthcare provider Ardent Health Services disclosed a ransomware attack

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Ukraine's intelligence service hacked Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia

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Iranian hacker group Cyber Av3ngers hacked the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa in Pennsylvania

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The hack of MSP provider CTS potentially impacted hundreds of UK law firms

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 447 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Rhysida ransomware gang claimed China Energy hack

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North Korea-linked APT Lazarus is using a MagicLine4NX zero-day flaw in supply chain attack

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Hamas-linked APT uses Rust-based SysJoker backdoor against Israel

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App used by hundreds of schools leaking children's data

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Microsoft launched its new Microsoft Defender Bounty Program

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Exposed Kubernetes configuration secrets can fuel supply chain attacks

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North Korea-linked Konni APT uses Russian-language weaponized documents

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ClearFake campaign spreads macOS AMOS information stealer

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Welltok data breach impacted 8.5 million patients in the U.S.

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North Korea-linked APT Diamond Sleet supply chain attack relies on CyberLink software

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Automotive parts giant AutoZone disclosed data breach after MOVEit hack

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New InfectedSlurs Mirai-based botnet exploits two zero-days

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SiegedSec hacktivist group hacked Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

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CISA adds Looney Tunables Linux bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Citrix provides additional measures to address Citrix Bleed

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Tor Project removed several relays associated with a suspicious cryptocurrency scheme

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Experts warn of a surge in NetSupport RAT attacks against education and government sectors

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The Top 5 Reasons to Use an API Management Platform

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Canadian government impacted by data breaches of two of its contractors

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Rhysida ransomware gang is auctioning data stolen from the British Library

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Russia-linked APT29 group exploited WinRAR 0day in attacks against embassies

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DarkCasino joins the list of APT groups exploiting WinRAR zero-day

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US teenager pleads guilty to his role in credential stuffing attack on a betting site

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 446 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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8Base ransomware operators use a new variant of the Phobos ransomware

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Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine

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The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman

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Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services

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CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Zimbra zero-day exploited to steal government emails by four groups

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Vietnam Post exposes 1.2TB of data, including email addresses

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Samsung suffered a new data breach

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FBI and CISA warn of attacks by Rhysida ransomware gang

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Critical flaw fixed in SAP Business One product

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Law enforcement agencies dismantled the illegal botnet proxy service IPStorm

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Gamblers’ data compromised after casino giant Strendus fails to set password

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VMware disclosed a critical and unpatched authentication bypass flaw in VMware Cloud Director Appliance

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Danish critical infrastructure hit by the largest cyber attack in Denmark's history

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Major Australian ports blocked after a cyber attack on DP World

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Nuclear and Oil & Gas are Major Targets of Ransomware Groups in 2024

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CISA adds five vulnerabilities in Juniper devices to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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LockBit ransomware gang leaked data stolen from Boeing

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North Korea-linked APT Sapphire Sleet targets IT job seekers with bogus skills assessment portals

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The Lorenz ransomware group hit Texas-based Cogdell Memorial Hospital

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The State of Maine disclosed a data breach that impacted 1.3M people

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 445 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Police seized BulletProftLink phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform

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Serbian pleads guilty to running ‘Monopoly’ dark web drug market

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McLaren Health Care revealed that a data breach impacted 2.2 million people

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After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website

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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) suffered a ransomware attack

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SysAid zero-day exploited by Clop ransomware group

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Dolly.com pays ransom, attackers release data anyway

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DDoS attack leads to significant disruption in ChatGPT services

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Russian Sandworm disrupts power in Ukraine with a new OT attack

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Veeam fixed multiple flaws in Veeam ONE, including critical issues

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Pro-Palestinian hackers group 'Soldiers of Solomon' disrupted the production cycle of the biggest flour production plant in Israel

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Iranian Agonizing Serpens APT is targeting Israeli entities with destructive cyber attacks

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Critical Confluence flaw exploited in ransomware attacks

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QNAP fixed two critical vulnerabilities in QTS OS and apps

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Attackers use Google Calendar RAT to abuse Calendar service as C2 infrastructure

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Socks5Systemz proxy service delivered via PrivateLoader and Amadey

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US govt sanctioned a Russian woman for laundering virtual currency on behalf of threat actors

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 444 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Lazarus targets blockchain engineers with new KandyKorn macOS Malware

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Kinsing threat actors probed the Looney Tunables flaws in recent attacks

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ZDI discloses four zero-day flaws in Microsoft Exchange

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Okta customer support system breach impacted 134 customers

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Multiple WhatsApp mods spotted containing the CanesSpy Spyware

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Russian FSB arrested Russian hackers who supported Ukrainian cyber operations

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MuddyWater has been spotted targeting two Israeli entities

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Clop group obtained access to the email addresses of about 632,000 US federal employees

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Okta discloses a new data breach after a third-party vendor was hacked

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Suspected exploitation of Apache ActiveMQ flaw CVE-2023-46604 to install HelloKitty ransomware

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Boeing confirmed its services division suffered a cyberattack

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Resecurity: Insecurity of 3rd-parties leads to Aadhaar data leaks in India

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Who is behind the Mozi Botnet kill switch?

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CISA adds two F5 BIG-IP flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Threat actors actively exploit F5 BIG-IP flaws CVE-2023-46747 and CVE-2023-46748

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Pro-Hamas hacktivist group targets Israel with BiBi-Linux wiper

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British Library suffers major outage due to cyberattack

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Critical Atlassian Confluence flaw can lead to significant data loss

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WiHD leak exposes details of all torrent users

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Experts released PoC exploit code for Cisco IOS XE flaw CVE-2023-20198

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Canada bans WeChat and Kaspersky apps on government-issued mobile devices

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Florida man sentenced to prison for SIM Swapping conspiracy that led to theft of $1M in cryptocurrency

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Wiki-Slack attack allows redirecting business professionals to malicious websites

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HackerOne awarded over $300 million bug hunters

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StripedFly, a complex malware that infected one million devices without being noticed

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IT Army of Ukraine disrupted internet providers in territories occupied by Russia

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 443 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Bug hunters earned $1,038,250 for 58 unique 0-days at Pwn2Own Toronto 2023

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Lockbit ransomware gang claims to have stolen data from Boeing

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How to Collect Market Intelligence with Residential Proxies?

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F5 urges to address a critical flaw in BIG-IP

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Hello Alfred app exposes user data

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iLeakage attack exploits Safari to steal data from Apple devices

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Cloudflare mitigated 89 hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed DDoS attacks exceeding 100 million rps

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Seiko confirmed a data breach after BlackCat attack

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Winter Vivern APT exploited zero-day in Roundcube webmail software in recent attacks

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Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 Day 1 - organizers awarded $438,750 in prizes

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VMware addressed critical vCenter flaw also for End-of-Life products

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Citrix warns admins to patch NetScaler CVE-2023-4966 bug immediately

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New England Biolabs leak sensitive data

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Former NSA employee pleads guilty to attempted selling classified documents to Russia

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Experts released PoC exploit code for VMware Aria Operations for Logs flaw. Patch it now!

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How did the Okta Support breach impact 1Password?

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PII Belonging to Indian Citizens, Including their Aadhaar IDs, Offered for Sale on the Dark Web

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Spain police dismantled a cybercriminal group who stole the data of 4 million individuals

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CISA adds second Cisco IOS XE flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Cisco warns of a second IOS XE zero-day used to infect devices worldwide

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City of Philadelphia suffers a data breach

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SolarWinds fixed three critical RCE flaws in its Access Rights Manager product

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Don't use AI-based apps, Philippine defense ordered its personnel

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Vietnamese threat actors linked to DarkGate malware campaign

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MI5 chief warns of Chinese cyber espionage reached an unprecedented scale

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The attack on the International Criminal Court was targeted and sophisticated

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 442 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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A threat actor is selling access to Facebook and Instagram's Police Portal

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Threat actors breached Okta support system and stole customers' data

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US DoJ seized domains used by North Korean IT workers to defraud businesses worldwide

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Alleged developer of the Ragnar Locker ransomware was arrested

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CISA adds Cisco IOS XE flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Tens of thousands Cisco IOS XE devices were hacked by exploiting CVE-2023-20198

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Law enforcement operation seized Ragnar Locker group's infrastructure

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THE 11TH EDITION OF THE ENISA THREAT LANDSCAPE REPORT IS OUT!

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North Korea-linked APT groups actively exploit JetBrains TeamCity flaw

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Multiple APT groups exploited WinRAR flaw CVE-2023-38831

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Californian IT company DNA Micro leaks private mobile phone data

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Threat actors have been exploiting CVE-2023-4966 in Citrix NetScaler ADC/Gateway devices since August

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A flaw in Synology DiskStation Manager allows admin account takeover

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D-Link confirms data breach, but downplayed the impact

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CVE-2023-20198 zero-day widely exploited to install implants on Cisco IOS XE systems

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Russia-linked Sandworm APT compromised 11 Ukrainian telecommunications providers

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Ransomware realities in 2023: one employee mistake can cost a company millions

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Malware-laced 'RedAlert - Rocket Alerts' app targets Israeli users

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Cisco warns of active exploitation of IOS XE zero-day

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Signal denies claims of an alleged zero-day flaw in its platform

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Microsoft Defender thwarted Akira ransomware attack on an industrial engineering firm

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DarkGate malware campaign abuses Skype and Teams

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The Alphv ransomware gang stole 5TB of data from the Morrison Community Hospital

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 441 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Lockbit ransomware gang demanded an 80 million ransom to CDW

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CISA warns of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations exploited in ransomware attacks

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Stayin' Alive campaign targets high-profile Asian government and telecom entities. Is it linked to ToddyCat APT?

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FBI and CISA published a new advisory on AvosLocker ransomware

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More than 17,000 WordPress websites infected with the Balada Injector in September

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Ransomlooker, a new tool to track and analyze ransomware groups' activities

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Phishing, the campaigns that are targeting Italy

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A new Magecart campaign hides the malicious code in 404 error page

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CISA adds Adobe Acrobat Reader flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Mirai-based DDoS botnet IZ1H9 added 13 payloads to target routers

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Air Europa data breach exposed customers' credit cards

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#OpIsrael, #FreePalestine & #OpSaudiArabia - How Cyber Actors Capitalize On War Actions Via Psy-Ops

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for October 2023 fixed three actively exploited zero-day flaws

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New 'HTTP/2 Rapid Reset' technique behind record-breaking DDoS attacks

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Exposed security cameras in Israel and Palestine pose significant risks

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A flaw in libcue library impacts GNOME Linux systems

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Hacktivists in Palestine and Israel after SCADA and other industrial control systems

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Large-scale Citrix NetScaler Gateway credential harvesting campaign exploits CVE-2023-3519

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The source code of the 2020 variant of HelloKitty ransomware was leaked on a cybercrime forum

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Gaza-linked hackers and Pro-Russia groups are targeting Israel

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Flagstar Bank suffered a data breach once again

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Android devices shipped with backdoored firmware as part of the BADBOX network

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 440 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT laundered over $900 million through cross-chain crime

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QakBot threat actors are still operational after the August takedown

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Ransomware attack on MGM Resorts costs $110 Million

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Cybersecurity, why a hotline number could be important?

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Multiple experts released exploits for Linux local privilege escalation flaw Looney Tunables

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Cisco Emergency Responder is affected by a critical Static Credentials bug. Fix it immediately!

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Belgian intelligence service VSSE accused Alibaba of ‘possible espionage’ at European hub in Liege

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CISA adds JetBrains TeamCity and Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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NATO is investigating a new cyber attack claimed by the SiegedSec group

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Global CRM Provider Exposed Millions of Clients’ Files Online

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Sony sent data breach notifications to about 6,800 individuals

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Apple fixed the 17th zero-day flaw exploited in attacks

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Atlassian Confluence zero-day CVE-2023-22515 actively exploited in attacks

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A cyberattack disrupted Lyca Mobile services

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Chipmaker Qualcomm warns of three actively exploited zero-days

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DRM Report Q2 2023 - Ransomware threat landscape

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Phishing campaign targeted US executives exploiting a flaw in Indeed job search platform

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San Francisco’s transport agency exposes drivers’ parking permits and addresses

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BunnyLoader, a new Malware-as-a-Service advertised in cybercrime forums

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Exclusive: Lighting the Exfiltration Infrastructure of a LockBit Affiliate (and more)

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Two hacker groups are back in the news, LockBit 3.0 Black and BlackCat/AlphV

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European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) suffered a data breach

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WS_FTP flaw CVE-2023-40044 actively exploited in the wild

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National Logistics Portal (NLP) data leak: seaports in India were left vulnerable to takeover by hackers

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North Korea-linked Lazarus targeted a Spanish aerospace company

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Ransomware attack on Johnson Controls may have exposed sensitive DHS data

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BlackCat gang claims they stole data of 2.5 million patients of McLaren Health Care

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 439 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang hacked the hotel chain Motel One

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FBI warns of dual ransomware attacks

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Progress Software fixed two critical severity flaws in WS_FTP Server

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Child abuse site taken down, organized child exploitation crime suspected – exclusive

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A still unpatched zero-day RCE impacts more than 3.5M Exim servers

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Chinese threat actors stole around 60,000 emails from US State Department in Microsoft breach

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Misconfigured WBSC server leaks thousands of passports

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CISA adds JBoss RichFaces Framework flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Cisco urges to patch actively exploited IOS zero-day CVE-2023-20109

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Dark Angels Team ransomware group hit Johnson Controls

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GOOGLE FIXED THE FIFTH CHROME ZERO-DAY OF 2023

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Russian zero-day broker is willing to pay $20M for zero-day exploits for iPhones and Android devices

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China-linked APT BlackTech was spotted hiding in Cisco router firmware

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Watch out! CVE-2023-5129 in libwebp library affects millions applications

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DarkBeam leaks billions of email and password combinations

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'Ransomed.vc' in the Spotlight - What is Known About the Ransomware Group Targeting Sony and NTT Docomo

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Top 5 Problems Solved by Data Lineage

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Threat actors claim the hack of Sony, and the company investigates

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Canadian Flair Airlines left user data leaking for months

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The Rhysida ransomware group hit the Kuwait Ministry of Finance

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BORN Ontario data breach impacted 3.4 million newborns and pregnancy care patients

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Xenomorph malware is back after months of hiatus and expands the list of targets

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Smishing Triad Stretches Its Tentacles into the United Arab Emirates

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Crooks stole $200 million worth of assets from Mixin Network

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A phishing campaign targets Ukrainian military entities with drone manual lures

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Alert! Patch your TeamCity instance to avoid server hack

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Is Gelsemium APT behind a targeted attack in Southeast Asian Government?

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Nigerian National pleads guilty to participating in a millionaire BEC scheme

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New variant of BBTok Trojan targets users of +40 banks in LATAM

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Deadglyph, a very sophisticated and unknown backdoor targets the Middle East

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Alphv group claims the hack of Clarion, a global manufacturer of audio and video equipment for cars

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 438 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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National Student Clearinghouse data breach impacted approximately 900 US schools

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Government of Bermuda blames Russian threat actors for the cyber attack

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Recently patched Apple and Chrome zero-days exploited to infect devices in Egypt with Predator spyware

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CISA adds Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Information of Air Canada employees exposed in recent cyberattack

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Sandman APT targets telcos with LuaDream backdoor

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Apple rolled out emergency updates to address 3 new actively exploited zero-day flaws

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Ukrainian hackers are behind the Free Download Manager supply chain attack

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Space and defense tech maker Exail Technologies exposes database access

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Pro-Russia hacker group NoName launched a DDoS attack on Canadian airports causing severe disruptions

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Experts found critical flaws in Nagios XI network monitoring software

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The dark web drug marketplace PIILOPUOTI was dismantled by Finnish Customs

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International Criminal Court hit with a cyber attack

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GitLab addressed critical vulnerability CVE-2023-5009

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Trend Micro addresses actively exploited zero-day in Apex One and other security Products

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ShroudedSnooper threat actors target telecom companies in the Middle East

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Recent cyber attack is causing Clorox products shortage

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Earth Lusca expands its arsenal with SprySOCKS Linux malware

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Microsoft AI research division accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive data

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German intelligence warns cyberattacks could target liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals

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Deepfake and smishing. How hackers compromised the accounts of 27 Retool customers in the crypto industry

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FBI hacker USDoD leaks highly sensitive TransUnion data

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North Korea's Lazarus APT stole almost $240 million in crypto assets since June

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Clop gang stolen data from major North Carolina hospitals

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CardX released a data leak notification impacting their customers in Thailand

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 437 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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TikTok fined €345M by Irish DPC for violating children’s privacy

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Dariy Pankov, the NLBrute malware author, pleads guilty

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Dangerous permissions detected in top Android health apps

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Caesars Entertainment paid a ransom to avoid stolen data leaks

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Free Download Manager backdoored to serve Linux malware for more than 3 years

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Lockbit ransomware gang hit the Carthage Area Hospital and the Clayton-Hepburn Medical Center in New York

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The iPhone of a Russian journalist was infected with the Pegasus spyware

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Kubernetes flaws could lead to remote code execution on Windows endpoints

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Threat actor leaks sensitive data belonging to Airbus

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A new ransomware family called 3AM appears in the threat landscape

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Redfly group infiltrated an Asian national grid as long as six months

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Mozilla fixed a critical zero-day in Firefox and Thunderbird

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Microsoft September 2023 Patch Tuesday fixed 2 actively exploited zero-day flaws

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Save the Children confirms it was hit by cyber attack

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Adobe fixed actively exploited zero-day in Acrobat and Reader

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A new Repojacking attack exposed over 4,000 GitHub repositories to hack

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MGM Resorts hit by a cyber attack

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Anonymous Sudan launched a DDoS attack against Telegram

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Iranian Charming Kitten APT targets various entities in Brazil, Israel, and the U.A.E. using a new backdoor

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GOOGLE FIXED THE FOURTH CHROME ZERO-DAY OF 2023

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CISA adds recently discovered Apple zero-days to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

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UK and US sanctioned 11 members of the Russia-based TrickBot gang

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New HijackLoader malware is rapidly growing in popularity in the cybercrime community

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Some of TOP universities wouldn’t pass cybersecurity exam: left websites vulnerable

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Evil Telegram campaign: Trojanized Telegram apps found on Google Play

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Rhysida Ransomware gang claims to have hacked three more US hospitals

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Akamai prevented the largest DDoS attack on a US financial company

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 436 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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US CISA added critical Apache RocketMQ flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Ragnar Locker gang leaks data stolen from the Israel's Mayanei Hayeshua hospital

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North Korea-linked threat actors target cybersecurity experts with a zero-day

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Zero-day in Cisco ASA and FTD is actively exploited in ransomware attacks

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Zero-days fixed by Apple were used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware

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Apple discloses 2 new actively exploited zero-day flaws in iPhones, Macs

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A malvertising campaign is delivering a new version of the macOS Atomic Stealer

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Two flaws in Apache SuperSet allow to remotely hack servers

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Chinese cyberspies obtained Microsoft signing key from Windows crash dump due to a mistake

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Google addressed an actively exploited zero-day in Android

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A zero-day in Atlas VPN Linux Client leaks users' IP address

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MITRE and CISA release Caldera for OT attack emulation

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ASUS routers are affected by three critical remote code execution flaws

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Hackers stole $41M worth of crypto assets from crypto gambling firm Stake

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Freecycle data breach impacted 7 Million users

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Meta disrupted two influence campaigns from China and Russia

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A massive DDoS attack took down the site of the German financial agency BaFin

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"Smishing Triad" Targeted USPS and US Citizens for Data Theft

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University of Sydney suffered a security breach caused by a third-party service provider

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Cybercrime will cost Germany $224 billion in 2023

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PoC exploit code released for CVE-2023-34039 bug in VMware Aria Operations for Networks

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 435 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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LockBit ransomware gang hit the Commission des services electriques de Montréal (CSEM)

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UNRAVELING EternalBlue: inside the WannaCry’s enabler

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Researchers released a free decryptor for the Key Group ransomware

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Fashion retailer Forever 21 data breach impacted +500,000 individuals

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Russia-linked hackers target Ukrainian military with Infamous Chisel Android malware

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Akira Ransomware gang targets Cisco ASA without Multi-Factor Authentication

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Paramount Global disclosed a data breach

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National Safety Council data leak: Credentials of NASA, Tesla, DoJ, Verizon, and 2K others leaked by workplace safety organization

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Abusing Windows Container Isolation Framework to avoid detection by security products

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Critical RCE flaw impacts VMware Aria Operations Networks

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UNC4841 threat actors hacked US government email servers exploiting Barracuda ESG flaw

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Hackers infiltrated Japan’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC) for months

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FIN8-linked actor targets Citrix NetScaler systems

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Japan's JPCERT warns of new 'MalDoc in PDF' attack technique

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Attackers can discover IP address by sending a link over the Skype mobile app

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Cisco fixes 3 high-severity DoS flaws in NX-OS and FXOS software

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Cloud and hosting provider Leaseweb took down critical systems after a cyber attack

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Crypto investor data exposed by a SIM swapping attack against a Kroll employee

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China-linked Flax Typhoon APT targets Taiwan

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Researchers released PoC exploit for Ivanti Sentry flaw CVE-2023-38035

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Resecurity identified a zero-day vulnerability in Schneider Electric Accutech Manager

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Brute-Force amplification

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2015

Brute-Force amplification attacks on WordPress rely on XML-RPC

Security experts at Sucuri have uncovered threat actors abusing an XML-RPC method to run Brute-Force amplification attacks on WordPress websites. According to the experts at security firm Sucuri, threat actors are exploiting the XML-RPC protocol implemented by WordPress and other popular content management systems to run brute-force amplification attacks. The XML-RPC protocol allows users to […]