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Ransomware attacks doubled year on year. Are organizations equipped to handle the evolution of Ransomware in 2023?

Ransomware attacks have only increased in sophistication and capabilities over the past year. From new evasion and anti-analysis techniques to stealthier varia…

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Ransomware Attacks Double: Are Companies Prepared for 2024's Cyber Threats?

Ransomware attacks have only increased in sophistication and capabilities over the past year. From new evasion and anti-analysis techniques to stealthier varia…

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FBI, CISA Warn of Rising AvosLocker Ransomware Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure

The AvosLocker ransomware gang has been linked to attacks against critical infrastructure sectors in the U.S., with some of them detected as recently as May 20…

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Microsoft Defender Thwarts Large-Scale Akira Ransomware Attack

Microsoft on Wednesday said that a user containment feature in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint helped thwart a "large-scale remote encryption attempt" made byA…

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Researchers Uncover Malware Posing as WordPress Caching Plugin

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new sophisticated strain of malware that masquerades as a WordPress plugin to stealthily create administrator ac…

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Take an Offensive Approach to Password Security by Continuously Monitoring for Breached Passwords

Passwords are at the core of securing access to an organization's data. However, they also come with security vulnerabilities that stem from their inconvenienc…

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High-Severity Flaws in ConnectedIO's 3G/4G Routers Raise Concerns for IoT Security

Multiple high-severity security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in ConnectedIO's ER2000 edge routers and the cloud-based management platform that could be …

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Guyana Governmental Entity Hit by DinodasRAT in Cyber Espionage Attack

A governmental entity in Guyana has been targeted as part of a cyber espionage campaign dubbedOperation Jacana.Theactivity, which was detected by ESET in Febru…

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TeamCity RCE Flaw Actively Exploited To Deploy Ransomware

The recently patched TeamCity RCE flaw is now under active attack by numerous ransomware gangs.…TeamCity RCE Flaw Actively Exploited To Deploy Ransomware on La…

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Microsoft Warns of Cyber Attacks Attempting to Breach Cloud via SQL Server Instance

Microsoft has detailed a new campaign in which attackers unsuccessfully attempted to move laterally to a cloud environmentthrough an SQL Server instance."The a…

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Over 3 Dozen Data-Stealing Malicious npm Packages Found Targeting Developers

Nearly three dozen counterfeit packages have been discovered in the npm package repository that are designed to exfiltrate sensitive data from developer system…

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LUCR-3: Scattered Spider Getting SaaS-y in the Cloud

LUCR-3 overlaps with groups such as Scattered Spider, Oktapus, UNC3944, and STORM-0875 and is a financially motivated attacker that leverages the Identity Prov…

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FBI Warns of Rising Trend of Dual Ransomware Attacks Targeting U.S. Companies

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning of a new trend of dual ransomware attacks targeting the same victims, at least since July 2023."Durin…

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Researchers Uncover New GPU Side-Channel Vulnerability Leaking Sensitive Data

A novel side-channel attack calledGPU.ziprenders virtually all modern graphics processing units (GPU) vulnerable to information leakage."This channel exploits …

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New Survey Uncovers How Companies Are Confronting Data Security Challenges Head-On

Data security is in the headlines often, and it’s almost never for a positive reason. Major breaches, new ways to hack into an organization’s supposedly secure…

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ShadowSyndicate: A New Cybercrime Group Linked to 7 Ransomware Families

Cybersecurity experts have shed light on a new cybercrime group known asShadowSyndicate(formerly Infra Storm) that may have leveraged as many as seven differen…

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China Accuses U.S. of Decade-Long Cyber Espionage Campaign Against Huawei Servers

China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) has accused the U.S. of breaking into Huawei's servers, stealing critical data, and implanting backdoors since 2009, a…

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Cyber Group 'Gold Melody' Selling Compromised Access to Ransomware Attackers

A financially motivated threat actor has been outed as an initial access broker (IAB) that sells access to compromised organizations for other adversaries to c…

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Ukrainian Hacker Suspected to be Behind "Free Download Manager" Malware Attack

The maintainers of Free Download Manager (FDM) have acknowledged a security incident dating back to 2020 that led to its website being used to distribute malic…

Linux

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Fresh Wave of Malicious npm Packages Threaten Kubernetes Configs and SSH Keys

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fresh batch of malicious packages in the npm package registry that are designed to exfiltrate Kubernetes configurat…

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Operation Rusty Flag: Azerbaijan Targeted in New Rust-Based Malware Campaign

Targets located in Azerbaijan have been singled out as part of a new campaign that's designed to deploy Rust-based malware on compromised systems.Cybersecurity…

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Retool Falls Victim to SMS-Based Phishing Attack Affecting 27 Cloud Clients

Software development company Retool has disclosed that the accounts of 27 of its cloud customers were compromised following a targeted and SMS-based social eng…

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Financially Motivated UNC3944 Threat Actor Shifts Focus to Ransomware Attacks

The financially motivated threat actor known asUNC3944is pivoting to ransomware deployment as part of an expansion to its monetization strategies, Mandiant has…

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Cybercriminals Combine Phishing and EV Certificates to Deliver Ransomware Payloads

The threat actors behind RedLine and Vidar information stealers have been observed pivoting to ransomware through phishing campaigns that spread initial payloa…