Google Chrome’s new “IP Protection” will hide users’ IP addresses
Google is getting ready to test a new “IP Protection” feature for the Chrome browser that enhances users’ privacy by masking their IP addresses using…
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Microsoft announces Security Copilot early access program
Microsoft announced this week that its ChatGPT-like Security Copilot AI assistant is now available in early access for some customers. Security Copilot, Redmond’s AI-driven security analysis…
New TetrisPhantom hackers steal data from secure USB drives on govt systems
A new sophisticated threat tracked as ‘TetrisPhantom’ has been using compromised secure USB drives to target government systems in the Asia-Pacific region. Secure USB drives…
Number of hacked Cisco IOS XE devices plummets from 50K to hundreds
The number of Cisco IOS XE devices hacked with a malicious backdoor implant has mysteriously plummeted from over 50,000 impacted devices to only a few…
American Family Insurance confirms cyberattack is behind IT outages
Insurance giant American Family Insurance has confirmed it suffered a cyberattack and shut down portions of its IT systems after customers reported website outages all…
International Criminal Court systems breached for cyber espionage
The International Criminal Court provided additional information about the cyberattack five weeks ago, saying that it was a targeted operation for espionage purposes. The intergovernmental…
The Week in Ransomware – October 20th 2023
This was a bad week for ransomware, with the Trigona ransomware suffering a data breach and law enforcement disrupting the RagnarLocker ransomware operation. Last week,…
Cisco discloses new IOS XE zero-day exploited to deploy malware implant
Cisco disclosed a new high-severity zero-day (CVE-2023-20273) today, actively exploited to deploy malicious implants on IOS XE devices compromised using the CVE-2023-20198 zero-day unveiled earlier…
Okta says its support system was breached using stolen credentials
Okta says attackers accessed files containing cookies and session tokens uploaded by customers to its support management system after breaching it using stolen credentials. “The…
Ragnar Locker ransomware developer arrested in France
Law enforcement agencies arrested a malware developer linked with the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang and seized the group’s dark web sites in a joint international…
Critical RCE flaws found in SolarWinds access audit solution
Security researchers found three critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in the SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) product that remote attackers could use to run code with…
Kwik Trip finally confirms cyberattack was behind ongoing outage
Two weeks into an ongoing IT outage, Kwik Trip finally confirmed that it’s investigating a cyberattack impacting the convenience store chain’s internal network since October…