Google Patches Second Chrome Zero-Day in One Week

Google has patched CVE-2024-4761, the second exploited vulnerability addressed by the company within one week.

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6 Mistakes Organizations Make When Deploying Advanced Authentication

Deploying advanced authentication measures is key to helping organizations address their weakest cybersecurity link: their human users. Having some form of 2-factor authentication in place is a great start, but many organizations may not yet be in that spot or have the needed level of authentication sophistication to adequately safeguard organizational data. When deploying

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Ongoing Campaign Bombarded Enterprises with Spam Emails and Phone Calls

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an ongoing social engineering campaign that bombards enterprises with spam emails with the goal of obtaining initial access to their environments for follow-on exploitation.
“The incident involves a threat actor overwhelming a user’s email with junk and calling the user, offering assistance,” Rapid7 researchers Tyler McGraw, Thomas Elkins, and

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Mallox Ransomware Deployed via MS-SQL Honeypot Attack

Upon analyzing Mallox samples, researchers identified two distinct affiliates using different approaches. One focused on exploiting vulnerable assets, while the other aimed at broader compromises of information systems on a larger scale.

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Google is planning on a fix to prevent accidental password deletion in Chrome

A default Google Chrome setting in Android could delete credentials saved in the Password Manager. But a potential fix is on the way.

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Student, Personnel Information Stolen in City of Helsinki Cyberattack

The City of Helsinki says usernames, email addresses, and personal information was stolen in a recent cyberattack.

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FCC Reveals Royal Tiger, its First Tagged Robocall Threat Actor

The FCC’s new robocall bad actor classification system, called Consumer Communications Information Services Threat (C-CIST), aims to help authorities identify and track threat actors abusing telecommunications infrastructure.

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Researchers Identify New Campaigns from Scattered Spider

The Scattered Spider, a group of hackers, has been actively attacking the finance and insurance industries worldwide, using tactics like domain impersonation, SIM swapping, and partnering with the BlackCat ransomware group to breach high-value firms.

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AI’s Rapid Growth Puts Pressure on CISOs to Adapt to New Security Risks

The increased use of AI further complicates CISO role as industries begin to realize the full potential of GenAI and its impact on cybersecurity, according to a report by Trellix.

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MITRE EMB3D Threat Model Officially Released

MITRE announced the public availability of the EMB3D threat model for embedded devices used in critical infrastructure.

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