Morocco-based Cybercriminals Cashing in on Bold Gift Card Scams

“Rather than scam or phish everyday people directly for gift card-based payments, Storm-0539 infiltrates large retailers and fraudulently issues gift card codes to themselves, virtually printing their own money,” Microsoft’s Vasu Jakkal explained.

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Bugcrowd Buys Informer to Enhance Attack Surface Management

Bugcrowd CEO Dave Gerry said their acquisition of Brighton, England-based Informer will fuel the adoption of Bugcrowd’s penetration testing technology and prompt clients to expand the scope of their bug bounty programs.

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Three-Year-Old Apache Flink Flaw Now Under Active Attack

An improper access control bug in Apache Flink that was fixed in January 2021 has been added to the US government’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, meaning criminals are right now abusing the flaw in the wild to compromise targets.

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CISOs in Australia Urged to Take a Closer Look at Data Breach Risks

A leading cyber lawyer in Australia has warned CISOs and other IT leaders their organisations and careers could be at stake if they do not understand data risk and data governance practices.

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Fake Antivirus Websites Deliver Malware to Android and Windows Devices

Threat actors have been observed making use of fake websites masquerading as legitimate antivirus solutions from Avast, Bitdefender, and Malwarebytes to propagate malware capable of stealing sensitive information from Android and Windows devices.
“Hosting malicious software through sites which look legitimate is predatory to general consumers, especially those who look to protect their devices

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The SEC’s SolarWinds Case: What CISOs Should Do Now

The SEC’s lawsuit may take years to resolve through litigation, but here are five things CISOs should do now to protect both themselves as individuals as well as their organizations.

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Google Fixes Eighth Actively Exploited Chrome Zero-Day This Year

The security issue was discovered internally by Google’s Clément Lecigne and is tracked as CVE-2024-5274. It is a high-severity ‘type confusion’ in V8, Chrome’s JavaScript engine responsible for executing JS code.

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Machine Identities Lack Essential Security Controls, Pose Major Threat

Siloed approaches to securing human and machine identities are driving identity-based attacks across enterprises and their ecosystems, according to a new report by CyberArk.

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Cyber Force Provision Gets House Committee’s Approval

A requirement for the Pentagon to commission an independent study on the creation of a U.S. Cyber Force was added late Wednesday to the House version of the defense policy bill.

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When ‘No’ & ‘Good Enough’ Challenge Cybersecurity

As the digital landscape evolves, these words must become an impetus for innovation and dialogue, not insurmountable barriers.

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