‘Earth Estries’ Cyberespionage Group Targets Government, Tech Sectors
A cyberespionage group possibly linked to China has targeted government-related organizations and technology companies in various parts of the world. Trend Micro, which tracks it…
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Healthcare Organizations Hit by Cyberattacks Last Year Reported Big Impact, Costs
Roughly 78% of the healthcare organizations in North America, South America, the APAC region, and Europe experienced a cyberattack over the past year, according to…
Recent Juniper Flaws Chained in Attacks Following PoC Exploit Publication
Threat actors have started exploiting four recently patched vulnerabilities in the J-Web component of Juniper Networks’ Junos OS after proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code was published…
High-Severity Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities Patched in Firefox, Chrome
Mozilla and Google on Tuesday announced the release of stable updates for Firefox and Chrome to address several high-severity vulnerabilities, including memory corruption issues. Mozilla…
GitHub Enterprise Server Gets New Security Capabilities
GitHub on Tuesday announced the general availability of Enterprise Server 3.10 with new security capabilities, including support for custom deployment rules. With the new release,…
BGP Flaw Can Be Exploited for Prolonged Internet Outages
A serious flaw affecting several major Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) implementations can be exploited to cause prolonged internet outages, but some vendors are not patching…
How Quantum Computing Will Impact Cybersecurity
Quantum computers live in research universities, government offices, and leading scientific companies and, except in rare circumstances, find themselves out of reach of bad actors.…
DreamBus Botnet Exploiting RocketMQ Vulnerability to Delivery Cryptocurrency Miner
The DreamBus botnet has resurfaced after a two-year break and it has been seen exploiting a recently patched Apache RocketMQ vulnerability in attacks whose goal…
Fianu Labs Emerges From Stealth With $2 Million in Seed Funding
Fianu Labs on Wednesday emerged from stealth mode and announced that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from startup foundry DataTribe for its…
Operation ‘Duck Hunt’: Qakbot Malware Disrupted, $8.6 Million in Cryptocurrency Seized
Law enforcement authorities on Tuesday announced the cross-border dismantling of the notorious Qakbot cybercrime operation that hit more than 700,000 computers globally with ransomware and…
VMware Patches Major Security Flaws in Network Monitoring Product
Virtualization technology giant VMware on Tuesday shipped a major security update to correct at least two critical vulnerabilities in its Aria Operations for Networks product…
OpenAI Turns to Security to Sell ChatGPT Enterprise
Looking to cash in on the gold rush for generative-AI computing, OpenAI has rolled out a business edition of its popular ChatGPT app promising “enterprise-grade…