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White House Issues National Security Memorandum for Critical Infrastructure
/in General NewsThe White House has published a national security memorandum focusing on critical infrastructure security and resilience.
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Lawsuits and Company Devaluations Await For Breached Firms
/in General NewsA new report from Netwrix has laid bare the significant financial and reputational costs stemming from serious cyber-attacks, including what are often unplanned expenses.
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These Dangerous Scammers Don’t Even Bother to Hide Their Crimes
/in General News“Yahoo Boy” cybercriminals are openly running dozens of scams across Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, YouTube, and more.
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Why Cloud Vulnerabilities Need CVEs
/in General NewsCloud services have introduced new challenges for vulnerability management, as organizations no longer control the underlying infrastructure and must focus on configuration management rather than just patching.
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Ransomware Rising Despite Takedowns, Says Corvus Report
/in General NewsIn its latest ransomware report, Ransomware Groups Don’t Die, They Multiply, published on April 30, the cyber insurance firm Corvus found that ransomware activity increased by 21% in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023.
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Ukrainian REvil Ransomware Affiliate Gets 13 Years in US Prison
/in General NewsYaroslav Vasinskyi was sentenced to 13 years and seven months in prison for his alleged role in the REvil ransomware operation.
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Mal.Metrica Redirects Users to Scam Sites
/in General NewsMal.Metrica is a significant malware campaign targeting vulnerabilities in popular WordPress plugins. It injects external scripts using domain names resembling legitimate services to redirect users to malicious sites.
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Google Announces Passkeys Adopted by Over 400 Million Accounts
/in General NewsGoogle on Thursday announced that passkeys are being used by over 400 million Google accounts, authenticating users more than 1 billion times over the past two years.
“Passkeys are easy to use and phishing resistant, only relying on a fingerprint, face scan or a pin making them 50% faster than passwords,” Heather Adkins, vice president of security engineering at Google, said.
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Four Critical Vulnerabilities Expose HPE Aruba Devices to RCE Attacks
/in General NewsHPE Aruba Networking (formerly Aruba Networks) has released security updates to address critical flaws impacting ArubaOS that could result in remote code execution (RCE) on affected systems.
Of the 10 security defects, four are rated critical in severity –
CVE-2024-26304 (CVSS score: 9.8) – Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in the L2/L3 Management Service Accessed via
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Billions of Android Devices Open to ‘Dirty Stream’ Attack
/in General NewsMicrosoft has uncovered a common vulnerability pattern in several apps allowing code execution; at least four of the apps have more than 500 million installations each; and one, Xiaomi’s File Manager, has at least 1 billion installations.
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