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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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commercial spyware

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2024

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

The U.S. Department of State imposed visa restrictions on 13 individuals allegedly linked to the commercial spyware business. The US Department of State is imposing visa restrictions on 13 individuals involved in the development and sale of commercial spyware or their immediate family members. The measure aims to counter the misuse of surveillance technology targeting […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2024

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

The U.S. government sanctioned two individuals and five entities linked to the development and distribution of the Predator spyware used to target Americans. Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced actions on two individuals and five entities associated with the Intellexa Consortium for their role in the development and […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 06, 2024

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

The U.S. government imposes visa restrictions on individuals who are involved in the illegal use of commercial spyware. The U.S. State Department announced it is implementing a new policy to impose visa restrictions on individuals involved in the misuse of commercial spyware. The policy underscores the U.S. government’s commitment to addressing the misuse of surveillance software, […]