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iOS and Android owners will now be alerted if an unknown tracker is moving with them
/in General NewsLast year, Apple and Google teamed up to develop a specification for alerting users if a Bluetooth tracking device is surreptitiously monitoring them. That feature just rolled out to iOS and Android users.
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Kaspersky Reveals Global Rise in APTs, Hacktivism and Targeted Attacks
/in General NewsBy Waqas
Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has released its latest quarterly report (Q1 2024) on the advanced persistent threat (APT) activity, highlighting several key trends in the threat and risk environment.
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Critical Flaws in Cacti Framework Could Let Attackers Execute Malicious Code
/in General NewsThe maintainers of the Cacti open-source network monitoring and fault management framework have addressed a dozen security flaws, including two critical issues that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
The most severe of the vulnerabilities are listed below –
CVE-2024-25641 (CVSS score: 9.1) – An arbitrary file write vulnerability in the “Package Import” feature that
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Hacker Conversations: Ron Reiter, and the Making of a Professional Hacker
/in General NewsRon Reiter was a childhood hacker in Israel. He was recruited into the IDF’s elite Unit 8200 for his military service. Now he is CTO and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Sentra.
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Attackers Use DNS Tunneling to Track Victim Activity, Scan Networks
/in General NewsThreat actors are using DNS tunneling to track victims’ interaction with spam and to scan network infrastructures.
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Google Patches Second Chrome Zero-Day in One Week
/in General NewsGoogle 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
/in General NewsDeploying 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
/in General NewsCybersecurity 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
/in General NewsUpon 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
/in General NewsA 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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