Cyber Pros Weigh an Intel-Sharing Quandary: What To Share When Attacks Hit Close to Home

Cybersecurity professionals face a dilemma: sharing information after an attack can prevent future incidents, but businesses often hesitate due to fears of litigation, customer inquiries, and reputational harm.

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SIEM Stalwart LogRhythm to Merge With Exabeam

LogRhythm, a leading SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) company, is merging with Exabeam, another prominent SIEM player, in a move that aims to create a stronger, AI-driven security operations leader in the market.

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PDF Exploitation Targets Foxit Reader Users

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a concerning trend of PDF exploitation targeting users of Foxit Reader, a popular PDF software, with sophisticated attack chains and malware families being utilized in real-world scenarios.

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Third Chrome Zero-Day Patched by Google Within One Week

Google releases Chrome 125 to the stable channel with patches for nine vulnerabilities, including a zero-day.

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FBI Seizes Criminal Site BreachForums

The FBI and the DOJ have seized control of the BreachForums hacking forum, which was a marketplace for cybercriminals to buy, sell, and trade stolen data and other illegal services, and are now investigating the forum and its admins.

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How Scammers Hijack Your Instagram

Scammers exploit Instagram’s influencer program to hijack users’ accounts by hacking into them, posting about cryptocurrencies, and then tricking victims into providing their login credentials to “vote” for the scammer’s fake influencer contest.

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Nigeria Halts Cybersecurity Tax After Public Outrage

In the midst of an economy struggling with soaring inflation, the Nigerian government paused plans to place a levy on domestic transactions that was aimed at enhancing cybersecurity.

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BreachForums Shut Down in Apparent Law Enforcement Operation

The hacking forum BreachForums is displaying a notice claiming that the website is under the control of the FBI.

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Cybercriminals Exploiting Microsoft’s Quick Assist Feature in Ransomware Attacks

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said it has observed a threat it tracks under the name Storm-1811 abusing the client management tool Quick Assist to target users in social engineering attacks.
“Storm-1811 is a financially motivated cybercriminal group known to deploy Black Basta ransomware,” the company said in a report published on May 15, 2024.
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Google Patches Yet Another Actively Exploited Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability

Google has rolled out fixes to address a set of nine security issues in its Chrome browser, including a new zero-day that has been exploited in the wild.
Assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-4947, the vulnerability relates to a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. It was reported by Kaspersky researchers Vasily Berdnikov and Boris

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