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BlackCat Spinoff ‘Cicada3301’ Uses Stolen Creds on the Fly, Skirts EDR
/in General NewsMalware authors have iterated on one of the premier encryptors on the market, building something even bigger and better.
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Trio Admits Running “OTP Agency” Enabling Bank Fraud, and 2FA Bypass
/in General NewsThree men plead guilty to running OTP Agency, a website that enabled criminals to bypass banking security and…
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New Rust-Based Ransomware Cicada3301 Targets Windows and Linux Systems
/in General NewsCybersecurity researchers have unpacked the inner workings of a new ransomware variant called Cicada3301 that shares similarities with the now-defunct BlackCat (aka ALPHV) operation.
“It appears that Cicada3301 ransomware primarily targets small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), likely through opportunistic attacks that exploit vulnerabilities as the initial access vector,” cybersecurity
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Clearview AI Fined $33.7 Million by Dutch Data Protection Watchdog Over ‘Illegal Database’ of Faces
/in General NewsDutch agency said a database with billions of photos of faces amounted to serious violations of GDPR.
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CISO Conversations: Jaya Baloo From Rapid7 and Jonathan Trull From Qualys
/in General NewsCSOs Jaya Baloo and Jonathan Trull discuss the route, role, and requirements in becoming and being a successful CISO.
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Hacktivists Exploits WinRAR Vulnerability in Attacks Against Russia and Belarus
/in General NewsA hacktivist group known as Head Mare has been linked to cyber attacks that exclusively target organizations located in Russia and Belarus.
“Head Mare uses more up-to-date methods for obtaining initial access,” Kaspersky said in a Monday analysis of the group’s tactics and tools.
“For instance, the attackers took advantage of the relatively recent CVE-2023-38831 vulnerability in WinRAR, which
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Canonical Addresses Critical Linux Kernel AWS Vulnerabilities with New Patches
/in General NewsSecurity researchers have identified six vulnerabilities, including a race condition in the Bluetooth RFCOMM protocol driver that can crash the system, a race condition in the Bluetooth subsystem, and a double-free error in the net/mlx5e module.
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Improved Software Supply Chain Resilience Equals Increased Security
/in General NewsUnderstanding through visibility, managing through governance, and anticipating through continuous deployment will better prepare organizations for the next supply chain attack.
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Researchers Link ManticoraLoader Malware to Ares Malware Developer
/in General NewsResearchers have traced the new ManticoraLoader malware-as-a-service (MaaS) to the cybercriminal group ‘DarkBLUP,’ previously associated with distributing AresLoader and AiDLocker ransomware from the DeadXInject group.
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Verkada to Pay $2.95 Million Over FTC Probe Into Security Camera Hacking
/in General NewsThe FTC complaint alleges that Verkada’s failures allowed a hacker to access customers’ security cameras.
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