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2022-02-06 00:37:16 |
Massachusetts Lawmakers Weighing Online Data Privacy Bill (lien direct) |
A bill that would grant Massachusetts residents what supporters describe as fundamental internet privacy rights - including greater control over their personal information - is making its way through the Statehouse.
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2022-02-04 21:24:15 |
Microsoft, Symantec Share Notes on Russian Hacks Hitting Ukraine (lien direct) |
Threat hunters at Microsoft and Symantec are sharing notes on a barrage of new cyberespionage attacks from Russia's spy agency hitting organizations in Ukraine.
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2022-02-04 16:01:08 |
Business Services Firm Morley Discloses Data Breach Affecting 500,000 People (lien direct) |
Business services company Morley this week announced being targeted in a ransomware attack that may have resulted in the information of more than 500,000 individuals getting stolen.
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Data Breach
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2022-02-04 14:55:54 |
Media Giant News Corp Targeted in China-Linked Cyberattack (lien direct) |
Global multimedia giant News Corp on Friday revealed it fell victim to a targeted cyberattack that appears to have been conducted by a “foreign government.”
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2022-02-04 12:26:10 |
DHS Connects Government, Private Sector in New Cyber Safety Review Board (lien direct) |
Long-awaited public-private initiative established to evaluate nation's cybersecurity and improve resilience
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2022-02-04 11:42:27 |
Target Open Sources Web Skimmer Detection Tool (lien direct) |
Retail giant Target this week announced the open source availability of an internal tool designed for the detection of web skimming attacks.
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Tool
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2022-02-04 09:35:19 |
Chinese Hackers Target Financial Institutions in Taiwan With Custom Backdoor (lien direct) |
Between 2020 and 2021, a China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) actor ran an espionage campaign targeting financial institutions in Taiwan, Symantec reports.
Tracked as Antlion, the hacking group is believed to have been active since at least 2011, and is likely backed by the Chinese government.
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2022-02-03 22:31:47 |
Volexity Warns of \'Active Exploitation\' of Zimbra Zero-Day (lien direct) |
Malware hunters at Volexity are raising the alarm for a Chinese threat actor seen exploiting a zero-day flaw in the Zimbra email platform to infect media and government targets in Europe.
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2022-02-03 20:07:10 |
Bridging the Gap Between Training and Behavior (lien direct) |
While employees want to do the right thing when it comes to protecting their organization from cyber threats, we cannot expect them to be perfect
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2022-02-03 19:56:43 |
Intel Patched 226 Vulnerabilities in 2021 (lien direct) |
Intel patched 226 vulnerabilities in its products last year, according to data from the 2021 Product Security Report released by the chip giant on Thursday.
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2022-02-03 14:27:31 |
Over $300 Million in Cryptocurrency Stolen in Wormhole Hack (lien direct) |
Blockchain bridge Wormhole has confirmed that roughly $320 million worth of cryptocurrency has been stolen following a hack discovered on Wednesday.
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2022-02-03 12:50:54 |
Ransomware Attack Disrupts Manufacturing at KP Snacks (lien direct) |
British snacks producer Kenyon Produce (KP) Snacks has fallen victim to a ransomware attack that caused some disruptions to its manufacturing and distribution operations.
The German-owned company says it became aware of the attack on January 28, and that it immediately took the necessary steps to contain the incident.
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2022-02-03 12:07:21 |
Critical Vulnerabilities Found in Sealevel Device Used in ICS Environments (lien direct) |
Cisco's Talos security researchers have published details on a series of critical vulnerabilities that Sealevel has addressed in the SeaConnect 370W WiFi-connected edge device.
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2022-02-03 11:56:41 |
Cisco Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Small Business RV Routers (lien direct) |
Cisco this week announced patches for multiple vulnerabilities in its Small Business RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 series routers, including critical bugs that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.
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2022-02-03 11:36:53 |
European Oil Port Terminals Hit by Cyberattack (lien direct) |
Major oil terminals in some of Western Europe's biggest ports have fallen victim to a cyberattack, sources confirmed on Thursday.
Belgian prosecutors have launched an investigation into the hacking of oil facilities in the country's ports, including Antwerp, Europe's second biggest port after Rotterdam.
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2022-02-03 11:09:58 |
Ransomware Often Hits Industrial Systems, With Significant Impact: Survey (lien direct) |
Ransomware attacks in many cases hit industrial control systems (ICS) or operational technology (OT) environments, and impact is often significant, according to a report published on Thursday by IoT and industrial cybersecurity company Claroty.
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2022-02-03 09:35:51 |
Financially Motivated Hackers Use Leaked Conti Ransomware Techniques in Attacks (lien direct) |
A series of financially motivated attacks are employing techniques observed in Conti ransomware playbooks that were leaked online in August 2021, Mandiant reports.
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2022-02-03 02:58:35 |
FBI Confirms It Bought Spyware From Israel\'s NSO Group (lien direct) |
The FBI has confirmed purchasing NSO Group's powerful spyware tool Pegasus, whose chronic abuse to surveil journalists, dissidents and human rights activists has long been established. It suggested its motivation was to “stay abreast of emerging technologies and tradecraft.”
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2022-02-02 20:03:13 |
Purple Teaming Security Management Firm PlexTrac Raises $70 Million (lien direct) |
Boise, Idaho-based PlexTrac has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners with participation from existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Noro-Moseley Partners and StageDotO Ventures.
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2022-02-02 16:09:01 |
Trend Micro Patches Vulnerabilities in Hybrid Cloud Security Products (lien direct) |
Trend Micro recently patched two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting some of its hybrid cloud security products. Details and proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits have been released by the researchers who found the flaws.
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2022-02-02 15:45:48 |
1,300 Malicious Packages Found in Popular npm JavaScript Package Manager (lien direct) |
Malicious actors are using the npm registry as the start point for open source software (OSS) supply chain attacks.
Open source software offers huge potential for criminals and nation states to deliver widespread supply chain attacks. OSS registries provide a major feeding ground with easy access.
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2022-02-02 15:00:03 |
Tennessee Community College Suffers Ransomware Attack (lien direct) |
A Tennessee community college suffered a data security attack that may have resulted in unauthorized access to personal information of former and current students, faculty and staff, officials said.
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2022-02-02 14:33:19 |
Walmart Dissects New \'Sugar\' Ransomware (lien direct) |
The cyber threat team at retail giant Walmart has dissected a new ransomware family dubbed Sugar, which is available to cybercriminals as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS).
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2022-02-02 12:57:58 |
Passage Emerges From Stealth With Biometric User Authentication Platform (lien direct) |
Austin, Texas-based Passage this week announced that it has emerged from stealth mode with $4 million in funding and a public beta version of its biometric user authentication platform for developers.
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2022-02-02 12:06:33 |
(Déjà vu) Cloudflare Launches Public Bug Bounty Program (lien direct) |
Web performance and security services provider Cloudflare this week announced that its bug bounty program is now open to all vulnerability hunters on HackerOne.
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2022-02-02 11:51:03 |
FBI Warns of Potential Cyberattacks Targeting 2022 Winter Olympics (lien direct) |
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Tuesday announced the release of a Private Industry Notification (PIN) to warn entities associated with the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic games of potential cyberattacks targeting them.
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2022-02-02 11:39:18 |
Samba Patches Critical Flaws That Earned Researchers Big Rewards (lien direct) |
The latest updates for Samba, the widely used interoperability suite that provides file and print sharing capabilities between Windows and Unix computers, patch critical vulnerabilities that earned researchers tens of thousands of dollars at a recent hacking contest.
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2022-02-02 11:03:14 |
ESET Patches High-Severity Vulnerability in Windows Applications (lien direct) |
Antivirus firm ESET on Monday announced patches for a local privilege escalation vulnerability impacting its Windows clients.
Tracked as CVE-2021-37852 and reported to ESET by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), the vulnerability is considered “high severity,” as it could allow an attacker to misuse the AMSI scanning feature.
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2022-02-02 09:50:47 |
(Déjà vu) Google Patches 27 Vulnerabilities With Release of Chrome 98 (lien direct) |
Google on Tuesday announced the release of Chrome 98 in the stable channel with a total of 27 security fixes inside, including 19 for vulnerabilities reported by external researchers.
The most severe of these security defects could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the same privileges as the Chrome browser has on the target system.
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2022-02-02 03:45:55 |
Forescout Acquires Healthcare Cybersecurity Firm CyberMDX (lien direct) |
Device security firm Forescout Technologies announced on Tuesday that is has acquired healthcare cybersecurity firm CyberMDX, which provides solutions to protect medical devices and clinical networks.
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2022-02-02 02:29:50 |
RIPTA Data Breach Affected About 22,000 People (lien direct) |
A data breach at the state agency that operates Rhode Island's public bus service compromised the personal information of about 22,000 people, agency officials said at a legislative hearing.
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2022-02-01 21:26:53 |
Newly Detected "StrifeWater" RAT Linked to Iranian APT (lien direct) |
The Iranian threat group known as Moses Staff was first spotted in October 2021. It claims its purpose is to harm Israeli companies by leaking sensitive stolen data, but it has also been seen targeting a variety of industries in countries such as Italy, India, Germany, Chile, Turkey, UAE and the U.S.
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2022-02-01 19:46:41 |
Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast: Applying Lessons From The Mayo Clinic to Cybersecurity (lien direct) |
I have previously written about how much the Mayo Clinic impacted my life through my experience and time there. In that article I discussed their approach to multi-disciplinary patient triaging and how looking at patients as a whole, rather than a system of discrete systems, helps them to make the right decisions.
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2022-02-01 19:04:31 |
Israeli Police: Possible Improper Surveillance by Our Own (lien direct) |
Israel's national police force on Tuesday said it had found evidence pointing to improper use of sophisticated spyware by its own investigators to snoop on Israeli citizens' phones.
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2022-02-01 18:29:29 |
OpenSSF Alpha-Omega Project Tackles Supply Chain Security (lien direct) |
Microsoft and Google are throwing their weight behind a new Linux Foundation OpenSSF initiative to address major security gaps in the open-source software ecosystem.
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2022-02-01 18:18:38 |
Two Dozen UEFI Vulnerabilities Impact Millions of Devices From Major Vendors (lien direct) |
Researchers at firmware security company Binarly have identified nearly two dozen vulnerabilities in UEFI firmware code used by the world's largest device makers.
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2022-02-01 17:53:29 |
British Council Student Data Found in Unprotected Database (lien direct) |
The information of many British Council students was recently exposed online in an unprotected repository.
A world leading education institution, British Council operates in over 100 countries worldwide. In 2019 and 2020, it connected directly with roughly 80 million people, and with over 790 million overall.
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2022-02-01 16:36:19 |
Germany: 2 Oil Storage and Supply Firms Hit by Cyberattack (lien direct) |
Two companies involved in storing and supplying oil and other materials said Tuesday they have been hit by a cyberattack that has impacted operations in Germany.
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2022-02-01 16:24:06 |
Iranian Hackers Using New PowerShell Backdoor Linked to Memento Ransomware (lien direct) |
Attacks from the Iranian Phosphorus APT (aka Charming Kitten, APT35) are well documented. Now a new set of tools incorporated into the group's arsenal, and a connection with the Memento ransomware, have been discovered.
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APT 35
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2022-02-01 13:46:18 |
Critical Flaw Impacts WordPress Plugin With 1 Million Installations (lien direct) |
Over one million WordPress websites might have been impacted by a critical vulnerability in the Essential Addons for Elementor plugin.
Essential Addons for Elementor provides WordPress site admins with more than 80 elements and extensions to help them easily design WordPress pages and posts.
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2022-02-01 12:38:22 |
Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 31 Deals Announced in January 2022 (lien direct) |
More than 30 cybersecurity-related mergers and acquisitions were announced in January 2022.
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2022-02-01 11:12:48 |
CISA Adds Recent iOS, SonicWall Vulnerabilities to \'Must Patch\' List (lien direct) |
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week announced the addition of eight more vulnerabilities to the list of security flaws known to be exploited in malicious attacks.
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2022-02-01 09:39:31 |
\'White Tur\' Hacking Group Borrows Techniques From Multiple APTs (lien direct) |
A newly detailed threat actor has been observed employing various techniques borrowed from multiple advanced persistent threat (APT) actors, PwC's cyber threat intelligence team reports.
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2022-01-31 18:37:10 |
Cyber Insights 2022: Improving Criminal Sophistication (lien direct) |
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2022-01-31 18:14:31 |
OT Data Stolen by Ransomware Gangs Can Facilitate Cyber-Physical Attacks (lien direct) |
Many of the ransomware attacks on industrial and critical infrastructure organizations result in the exposure of operational technology (OT) data that could be useful to threat actors, including to conduct cyber-physical attacks, according to Mandiant.
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2022-01-31 17:20:26 |
Cyberattacks Increasingly Hobble Pandemic-Weary US Schools (lien direct) |
For teachers at a middle school in New Mexico's largest city, the first inkling of a widespread tech problem came during an early morning staff call.
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2022-01-31 15:41:44 |
North Korean Hackers Abuse Windows Update Client in Attacks on Defense Industry (lien direct) |
The North Korean threat group Lazarus was observed abusing the Windows Update client for the execution of malicious code during a campaign this month, Malwarebytes reports.
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APT 38
APT 28
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2022-01-31 14:28:23 |
More Russian Attacks Against Ukraine Come to Light (lien direct) |
The WhisperGate attack is not the only operation believed to have been conducted by Russia-linked threat actors against Ukraine in recent months. Symantec on Monday disclosed the details of an espionage operation that it has tied to a known group.
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2022-01-31 13:03:41 |
The Third Building Block for the SOC of the Future: Balanced Automation (lien direct) |
When automation is balanced between humans and machines, we can ensure teams always have the best tool for the job
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2022-01-31 12:58:59 |
SureMDM Vulnerabilities Exposed Companies to Supply Chain Attacks (lien direct) |
A series of vulnerabilities in 42Gears' SureMDM device management products could have resulted in a supply chain compromise against any organization using the platform.
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