Cyberattack Disrupts Production at Varta Battery Factories

Production at five plants of German battery maker Varta has been disrupted by a cyberattack, possibly a ransomware attack.

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ESET Patches High-Severity Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

ESET has released patches for a high-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability in its Windows security products.

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New Wi-Fi Authentication Bypass Flaws Expose Home, Enterprise Networks

A couple of Wi-Fi authentication bypass vulnerabilities found in open source software can expose enterprise and home networks to attacks.

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Microsoft Warns of Exploited Exchange Server Zero-Day

Microsoft says a newly patched Exchange Server vulnerability (CVE-2024-21410) has been exploited in attacks.

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New Critical Microsoft Exchange Bug Exploited as Zero-Day

Discovered internally and tracked as CVE-2024-21410, this security flaw can let remote unauthenticated threat actors escalate privileges in NTLM relay attacks targeting vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Server versions.

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France Uncovers Russian Disinformation Campaign

The network of disinformation websites, dubbed “Portal Kombat,” reproduces content from pro-Russian social media accounts and news agencies, using automation and machine translation to disseminate the content.

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Critical Exchange Server Flaw (CVE-2024-21410) Under Active Exploitation

Microsoft on Wednesday acknowledged that a newly disclosed critical security flaw in Exchange Server has been actively exploited in the wild, a day after it released fixes for the vulnerability as part of its Patch Tuesday updates.
Tracked as CVE-2024-21410 (CVSS score: 9.8), the issue has been described as a case of privilege escalation impacting the Exchange Server.
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Cisco Announces It is Laying Off Thousands of Workers

About 5 percent of Cisco’s global workforce will be affected by layoffs, the Silicon Valley-based company said.

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Microsoft, OpenAI: Nation-States Are Weaponizing AI in Cyberattacks

It’s not theoretical anymore: the world’s major powers are working with large language models to enhance their offensive cyber operations.

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Prudential Files Voluntary Breach Notice With SEC

The finance services giant says it was hacked — and reported the incident proactively before SEC requirements mandated it. It could be an anti-extortion move, or merely a brand protection effort.

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