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Accellion FTA Zero-Day Attacks Show Ties to Clop Ransomware, FIN11
The threat actors stole data and used Clop’s leaks site to demand money in an extortion scheme, though no ransomware was deployed. Researchers have identified a set of threat actors (dubbed ...
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Lazarus Targets Job-Seeking Engineers with Malicious Documents
Notorious North Korean APT impersonates Airbus, General Motors and Rheinmetall to lure potential victims into downloading malware. The notorious Lazarus advanced persistent threat (APT) group has ...
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Exploit Fully Breaks SHA-1, Lowers the Attack Bar
Users of GnuPG, OpenSSL and Git could be in danger from an attack that’s practical for ordinary attackers to carry out. A proof-of-concept attack has been pioneered that “fully and practically ...
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Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise
Lockbit is by far this summer’s most prolific ransomware group, trailed by two offshoots of the Conti group. After a recent dip, ransomware attacks are back on the rise. According to data ...
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Phishing Attacks Skyrocket with Microsoft and Facebook as Most Abused Brands
Instances of phishing attacks leveraging the Microsoft brand increased 266 percent in Q1 compared to the year prior. The bloom is back on phishing attacks with criminals doubling down on fake ...
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Misery of Ransomware Hits Hospitals the Hardest
Ransomware attacks targeting hospitals have exacted a human cost as well as financial. Despite hospitals being on the front lines during the pandemic, bad actors have continued to target them with ...
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ThreatList: Human Error is Behind One Quarter of Data Breaches
Meanwhile, remediation times are ballooning to a year or more in the case of malicious attacks, according to Ponemon Institute. One quarter of all data breaches last ...
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Targeted With High-Risk Phish, Ransomware Attacks
SharePoint servers are being picked at with high-risk, legitimate-looking, branded phish messages and preyed on by a ransomware gang using an old bug. A phishing campaign, discovered by ...
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Grief Ransomware Targets NRA
Grief, a ransomware group with ties to Russia-based Evil Corp, claims to have stolen data from the gun-rights group and has posted files on its dark web site. A ransomware group tied to Russia ...
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Microsoft Teams Users Under Attack in ‘FakeUpdates’ Malware Campaign
Microsoft warns that cybercriminals are using Cobalt Strike to infect entire networks beyond the infection point, according to a report. Attackers are using ads for fake Microsoft Teams updates ...
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CEO ‘Deep Fake’ Swindles Company Out of $243K
Cybercrooks successfully fooled a company into a large wire transfer using an AI-powered deep fake of a chief executive’s voice, according to a report. In the first known case of successful ...
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Telnet Backdoor Opens More Than 1M IoT Radios to Hijack
Attackers can drop malware, add the device to a botnet or send their own audio streams to compromised devices. Imperial Dabman IoT radios have a weak password vulnerability that could allow a ...