The EU Commission is offering over €210m ($227.3m) in funding for cybersecurity and digital skills programs through the Digital Europe Programme (DEP). About $38m will go towards projects protecting critical infrastructures.
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Events like the recent massive CDK ransomware attack – which shuttered car dealerships across the U.S. in late June 2024 – barely raise public eyebrows anymore.
Yet businesses, and the people that lead them, are justifiably jittery. Every CISO knows that cybersecurity is an increasingly hot topic for executives and board members alike. And when the inevitable CISO/Board briefing rolls
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A new variation of WordFence evasion malware has been discovered, concealing backdoors in infected WordPress environments. A suspicious plugin named “wp-engine-fast-action” was found tampering with the popular WordFence security plugin.
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Financial institutions in Latin America are being threatened by a banking trojan called Mekotio (aka Melcoz).
That’s according to findings from Trend Micro, which said it recently observed a surge in cyber attacks distributing the Windows malware.
Mekotio, known to be actively put to use since 2015, is known to target Latin American countries like Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Peru, and Portugal
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Vulnerability in Ghostscript (CVE-2024-29510) allows attackers to bypass sandbox for remote code execution.
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With Living Off the Cloud (LOTC) attacks, hackers abuse APIs of trusted cloud services to remotely control botnets but also to make malicious traffic appear as trusted cloud traffic.
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Europol is proposing solutions to address challenges posed by privacy-enhancing technologies in Home Routing that impede law enforcement’s ability to intercept communications in criminal investigations.
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Exploiting these flaws could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands, read source code, and gain unauthorized access. The vulnerabilities require authentication, with one flaw specifically requiring the built-in SSH server to be enabled.
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Vinted, a prominent online platform for second-hand sales, has been fined €2,385,276 ($2,582,730) for violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by not properly handling personal data deletion requests.
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The expanding attack surface, with over 15 billion connected devices worldwide, raises concerns about privacy breaches for users. The average home now has 21 connected devices, facing more than 10 daily cyberattacks.
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