According to recent research on employee offboarding, 70% of IT professionals say they’ve experienced the negative effects of incomplete IT offboarding, whether in the form of a security incident tied to an account that wasn’t deprovisioned, a surprise bill for resources that aren’t in use anymore, or a missed handoff of a critical resource or account. This is despite an average of five
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A new cybercrime group named Mad Liberator has been identified by the Sophos X-Ops Incident Response team for targeting AnyDesk users. This ransomware group is using a fake Microsoft Windows update screen to hide their data exfiltration activities.
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Microsoft is implementing automatic enforcement of multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all Azure users starting October.
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While CyberGhost VPN presents an impressive amount of servers, ExpressVPN’s consistent VPN speeds and strong third-party audits give it the edge.
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Malicious actors are using a cloud attack tool named Xeon Sender to conduct SMS phishing and spam campaigns on a large scale by abusing legitimate services.
“Attackers can use Xeon to send messages through multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers using valid credentials for the service providers,” SentinelOne security researcher Alex Delamotte said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
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Cymulate’s proof-of-concept attack demonstrates how multiple on-premises domains syncing to a single Azure tenant can lead to credential mishandling, potentially allowing unauthorized access to different domains.
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A Jewish Home Lifecare data breach resulting from a BlackCat ransomware attack impacts over 100,000 individuals.
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Microsoft has patched a zero-day vulnerability, known as CVE-2024-38193, that was being exploited by the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group. This vulnerability is a privilege escalation issue in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock.
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The US Defense Department’s grand strategy for protecting Taiwan from a massive Chinese military offensive involves flooding the zone with thousands of drones.
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A newly patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows was exploited as a zero-day by Lazarus Group, a prolific state-sponsored actor affiliated with North Korea.
The security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38193 (CVSS score: 7.8), has been described as a privilege escalation bug in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver (AFD.sys) for WinSock.
“An attacker who successfully exploited this
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