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Mastermind Behind Biden AI Deepfake Indicted for Robocall Scheme
/in General NewsThe political consultant who wrote the script and paid for the deepfake audio used in robocalls was fined $6 million by the FCC.
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Exploit for Fortinet Critical RCE Bug Allows SIEM Root Access
/in General NewsCorporate admins should patch the max-severity CVE-2024-23108 immediately, which allows unauthenticated command injection.
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Cybercriminals Abuse StackOverflow to Promote Malicious Python Package
/in General NewsCybersecurity researchers have warned of a new malicious Python package that has been discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository to facilitate cryptocurrency theft as part of a broader campaign.
The package in question is pytoileur, which has been downloaded 316 times as of writing. Interestingly, the package author, who goes by the name PhilipsPY, has uploaded a new version of the
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Surge in Discord Malware Attacks as 50,000 Malicious Links Uncovered
/in General NewsBy Waqas
Cybersecurity researchers at Bitdefender have found a surge in malware and phishing attacks on Discord, noting 50,000 malicious…
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Check Point Warns of Zero-Day Attacks on its VPN Gateway Products
/in General NewsCheck Point is warning of a zero-day vulnerability in its Network Security gateway products that threat actors have exploited in the wild.
Tracked as CVE-2024-24919, the issue impacts CloudGuard Network, Quantum Maestro, Quantum Scalable Chassis, Quantum Security Gateways, and Quantum Spark appliances.
“The vulnerability potentially allows an attacker to read certain information on
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BlackSuit Claims Dozens of Victims With Carefully Curated Ransomware
/in General NewsResearchers went in-depth on an attack by the threat group, which mainly targets US companies in the education and industrial goods sectors, specifically to maximize financial gain.
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Transcend Raises $40 Million for Data Privacy Platform
/in General NewsSan Francisco data privacy startup Transcend secures 40 million in a Series B funding round that brings the total raised to $90 million.
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Brazilian Banks Targeted by New AllaKore RAT Variant Called AllaSenha
/in General NewsBrazilian banking institutions are the target of a new campaign that distributes a custom variant of the Windows-based AllaKore remote access trojan (RAT) called AllaSenha.
The malware is “specifically aimed at stealing credentials that are required to access Brazilian bank accounts, [and] leverages Azure cloud as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure,” French cybersecurity company HarfangLab
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Vulnerabilities in Eclipse ThreadX Could Lead to Code Execution
/in General NewsVulnerabilities in the real-time IoT operating system Eclipse ThreadX before version 6.4 could lead to denial-of-service and code execution.
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US Sanctions Three Chinese Men for Operating 911 S5 Botnet
/in General NewsThe US government has announced sanctions against three Chinese nationals accused of creating and operating the 911 S5 proxy botnet.
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