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Outlook Hack: Microsoft Reveals How a Crash Dump Led to a Major Security Breach

Microsoft on Wednesday revealed that a China-based threat actor known asStorm-0558acquired the inactive consumer signing key to forge tokens and access Outlook…

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Key Cybersecurity Tools That Can Mitigate the Cost of a Breach

IBM's 2023 installment of their annual "Cost of a Breach" report has thrown up some interesting trends. Of course, breaches being costly is no longer news at t…

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Hackers Exploit MinIO Storage System Vulnerabilities to Compromise Servers

An unknown threat actor has been observed weaponizing high-severity security flaws in the MinIO high-performance object storage system to achieve unauthorized …

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Threat Actors Targeting Microsoft SQL Servers to Deploy FreeWorld Ransomware

Threat actors are exploiting poorly secured Microsoft SQL (MS SQL) servers to deliver Cobalt Strike and a ransomware strain called FreeWorld.Cybersecurity firm…

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Russian State-Backed 'Infamous Chisel' Android Malware Targets Ukrainian Military

Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S. on Thursday disclosed details of a mobile malware strain ta…

Android

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New SuperBear Trojan Emerges in Targeted Phishing Attack on South Korean Activists

A new phishing attack likely targeting civil society groups in South Korea has led to the discovery of a novel remote access trojan calledSuperBear.The intrusi…

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It's a Zero-day? It's Malware? No! It's Username and Password

As cyber threats continue to evolve, adversaries are deploying a range of tools to breach security defenses and compromise sensitive data. Surprisingly, one of…

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SapphireStealer Malware: A Gateway to Espionage and Ransomware Operations

An open-source .NET-based information stealer malware dubbedSapphireStealeris being used by multiple entities to enhance its capabilities and spawn their own b…

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Numbers Don't Lie: Exposing the Harsh Truths of Cyberattacks in New Report

How often do cyberattacks happen? How frequently do threat actors target businesses and governments around the world? The BlackBerry® Threat Research and Intel…

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FBI Dismantles QakBot Malware, Frees 700,000 Computers, Seizes $8.6 Million

A coordinated law enforcement effort codenamedOperation Duck Hunthas felledQakBot, a notorious Windows malware family that's estimated to have compromised over…

Windows

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Chinese Hacking Group Exploits Barracuda Zero-Day to Target Government, Military, and Telecom

A suspected Chinese-nexus hacking group exploited arecently disclosed zero-day flawin Barracuda Networks Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances to breach gove…

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Citrix NetScaler Alert: Ransomware Hackers Exploiting Critical Vulnerability

Unpatched Citrix NetScaler systems exposed to the internet are being targeted by unknown threat actors in what's suspected to be a ransomware attack.Cybersecur…

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Leaseweb Hosting Provider Admits Security Breach Following Downtime

Cloud hosting firm Leaseweb recently disclosed a security breach after its Customer Portal suffered downtime.…Leaseweb Hosting Provider Admits Security Breach …

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Cyberattacks Targeting E-commerce Applications

Cyber attacks on e-commerce applications are a common trend in 2023 as e-commerce businesses become more omnichannel, they build and deploy increasingly more A…

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LockBit 3.0 Ransomware Builder Leak Gives Rise to Hundreds of New Variants

The leak of theLockBit 3.0 ransomwarebuilder last year has led to threat actors abusing the tool to spawn new variants.Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky …

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Kroll Suffers Data Breach: Employee Falls Victim to SIM Swapping Attack

Risk and financial advisory solutions provider Kroll on Friday disclosed that one of its employees fell victim to a "highly sophisticated" SIM swapping attack.…

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Lapsus$ Teen Hackers Convicted: Unraveling the Grand Theft Auto 6 Leak and High-Profile Cyberattacks

In recent times, the world of cybersecurity has been rocked by a series of audacious…Lapsus$ Teen Hackers Convicted: Unraveling the Grand Theft Auto 6 Leak and…

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New "Whiffy Recon" Malware Triangulates Infected Device Location via Wi-Fi Every Minute

The SmokeLoader malware is being used to deliver a new Wi-Fi scanning malware strain calledWhiffy Reconon compromised Windows machines."The new malware strain …

Windows

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Monti Ransomware Deploying New Linux Encryptor

A ransomware campaign by the recently emerged Monti ransomware group is targeting victims with a new Linux variant of its malware. The threat group is the late…

Linux

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Spacecolon Toolset Fuels Global Surge in Scarab Ransomware Attacks

A malicious toolset dubbedSpacecolonis being deployed as part of an ongoing campaign to spread variants of the Scarab ransomware across victim organizations gl…

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This Malware Turned Thousands of Hacked Windows and macOS PCs into Proxy Servers

Threat actors are leveraging access to malware-infected Windows and macOS machines to deliver a proxy server application and use them as exit nodes to reroute …

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Mozilla VPN: Security Flaw Opens Door to Multiple Integrity Breaches

A cybersecurity researcher from SUSE, a Linux distribution manufacturer, has made public a serious security flaw in the Mozilla VPN client for Linux.

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WoofLocker Toolkit Hides Malicious Codes in Images to Run Tech Support Scams

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an updated version of an advanced fingerprinting and redirection toolkit calledWoofLockerthat's engineered to conduct t…

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A Deep Dive into CL0P Ransomware

"Variants of CL0p were initially only found on Windows systems, but the gang also developed a Linux variant toward the end of 2022, reflecting the diversity of…

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