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Cybercriminals Shift Tactics to Pressure More Victims Into Paying Ransoms
/in General NewsCybercriminals’ new tactics led to a 64% increase in ransomware claims in 2023, driven by a 415% rise in “indirect” incidents and remote access vulnerabilities, pressuring more victims to pay ransoms, according to At-Bay.
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Fortinet FortiSIEM Command Injection Flaw (CVE-2023-34992) Deep-Dive
/in General NewsResearchers at Horizon3.ai discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2023-34992) in Fortinet FortiSIEM, allowing unauthenticated attackers to execute commands as root users and gain access to sensitive information.
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CyberArk Snaps up Venafi for $1.54B to Ramp up in Machine-to-Machine Security
/in General NewsThe acquisition will allow CyberArk to expand its capabilities in securing machine-to-machine communications and address the growing attack surface in the cloud-first, AI-driven, and post-quantum world.
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GitCaught Campaign Leverages GitHub Repositories and Fake Profiles for Malicious Infrastructure
/in General NewsInsikt Group uncovered a sophisticated campaign led by Russian-speaking actors who used GitHub profiles to spoof legitimate software apps and distribute various malware, including Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS) and Vidar.
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NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect Under Attack – CISA Issues Urgent Warning
/in General NewsThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a security flaw impacting NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-43208 (CVSS score: N/A), concerns a case of unauthenticated remote code execution arising from an incomplete
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“Linguistic Lumberjack” Vulnerability Discovered in Popular Logging Utility Fluent Bit
/in General NewsCybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical security flaw in a popular logging and metrics utility called Fluent Bit that could be exploited to achieve denial-of-service (DoS), information disclosure, or remote code execution.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4323, has been codenamed Linguistic Lumberjack by Tenable Research. It impacts versions from 2.0.7 through
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DoJ Shakes Up North Korea's Widespread IT Freelance Scam Operation
/in General NewsFraudsters based in the US and Europe indicted for helping North Korea’s nation-state groups establish fake freelancer identities and evade sanctions.
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Google Pitches Workspace as Microsoft Email Alternative, Citing CSRB Report
/in General NewsThe new Secure Alternative Program from Google aims to entice customers away from Exchange Online and break Microsoft’s dominance in enterprise.
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HP Catches Cybercriminals 'Cat-Phishing' Users
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Data Breach Response Provider, CyEx, Acquires Settlement Administrator, Simpluris Inc.
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