Threat actors created a website to impersonate UsenetClub, a subscription service for “uncensored” access to images and videos downloaded from Usenet. They claimed to provide free access to the site after the installation of a “CryptVPN” software.
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The MITRE Corporation revealed that it was the target of a nation-state cyber attack that exploited two zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure appliances starting in January 2024.
The intrusion led to the compromise of its Networked Experimentation, Research, and Virtualization Environment (NERVE), an unclassified research and prototyping network.
The unknown adversary “performed reconnaissance
Over the past two years, a shocking 51% of organizations surveyed in a leading industry report have been compromised by a cyberattack. Yes, over half.
And this, in a world where enterprises deploy an average of 53 different security solutions to safeguard their digital domain.
Alarming? Absolutely.
A recent survey of CISOs and CIOs, commissioned by Pentera and
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The hire marks another coup for the British public sector in poaching talent from the technology industry, particularly at the executive level, following the recruitment of Ollie Whitehouse as the NCSC’s chief technology officer earlier this year.
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IT professionals are under attack! This article exposes a malicious malvertising campaign targeting IT teams with a novel backdoor named MadMxShell. Learn how attackers use typosquatting and DNS techniques to compromise systems.
The agency is attributing the surge to a group tracked as UAC-0184, which was spotted in February targeting an unnamed Ukrainian entity in Finland. CERT-UA does not attribute UAC-0184’s activity to any specific foreign cyber threat group.
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Research Shows How Attackers Can Abuse EDR Security Products
/in General NewsVulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR allowed a security researcher to turn it into a malicious offensive tool.
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Malware Developer Lures Child Exploiters Into Honeytrap to Extort Them
/in General NewsThreat actors created a website to impersonate UsenetClub, a subscription service for “uncensored” access to images and videos downloaded from Usenet. They claimed to provide free access to the site after the installation of a “CryptVPN” software.
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CrushFTP Patches Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability
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MITRE Corporation Breached by Nation-State Hackers Exploiting Ivanti Flaws
/in General NewsThe MITRE Corporation revealed that it was the target of a nation-state cyber attack that exploited two zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure appliances starting in January 2024.
The intrusion led to the compromise of its Networked Experimentation, Research, and Virtualization Environment (NERVE), an unclassified research and prototyping network.
The unknown adversary “performed reconnaissance
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Pentera’s 2024 Report Reveals Hundreds of Security Events per Week, Highlighting the Criticality of Continuous Validation
/in General NewsOver the past two years, a shocking 51% of organizations surveyed in a leading industry report have been compromised by a cyberattack. Yes, over half.
And this, in a world where enterprises deploy an average of 53 different security solutions to safeguard their digital domain.
Alarming? Absolutely.
A recent survey of CISOs and CIOs, commissioned by Pentera and
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UK Cyber Agency NCSC Announces Richard Horne as its Next Chief Executive
/in General NewsThe hire marks another coup for the British public sector in poaching talent from the technology industry, particularly at the executive level, following the recruitment of Ollie Whitehouse as the NCSC’s chief technology officer earlier this year.
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Malvertising: Fake Popular Software Ads Deliver New MadMxShell Backdoor
/in General NewsBy Deeba Ahmed
IT professionals are under attack! This article exposes a malicious malvertising campaign targeting IT teams with a novel backdoor named MadMxShell. Learn how attackers use typosquatting and DNS techniques to compromise systems.
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Thousands of Palo Alto Firewalls Potentially Impacted by Exploited Vulnerability
/in General NewsShadowserver has identified roughly 6,000 internet-accessible Palo Alto Networks firewalls potentially vulnerable to CVE-2024-3400.
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Ukrainian Soldiers’ Apps Increasingly Targeted for Spying, Cyber Agency Warns
/in General NewsThe agency is attributing the surge to a group tracked as UAC-0184, which was spotted in February targeting an unnamed Ukrainian entity in Finland. CERT-UA does not attribute UAC-0184’s activity to any specific foreign cyber threat group.
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Deciphering the Economics of Software Development: An In-Depth Exploration
/in General NewsBy Uzair Amir
The depth of activities within software development ranges from ideation and design to coding, testing, and deployment. The…
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