The UK’s NCSC and major insurance associations have partnered to help reduce the profitability of ransomware attacks by providing better support and guidance to victims, encouraging resilience, and promoting alternatives to paying ransoms.
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Several campaigns are leveraging the evasive tactic to provide useful insights into victims’ online activities and find new ways to compromise organizations.
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The attack chain required user interaction to execute the malicious email attachment, which then initiated a network callout to the Phorpiex botnet infrastructure to download and detonate the LockBit Black ransomware.
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Last 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’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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The 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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Ron 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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Cyber Insurers Pledge to Help Reduce Ransom Payments
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Millions of Messages Distribute LockBit Black Ransomware
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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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/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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