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Cyberattacks Against Ukraine
20
Jan
2023

Gamaredon Group Launches Cyberattacks Against Ukraine Using Telegram

Jan 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber War / Cyber Attack The Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group known as Gamaredon has continued its…

Data Protection Laws
20
Jan
2023

WhatsApp Hit with €5.5 Million Fine for Violating Data Protection Laws

Jan 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Protection / Privacy The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Thursday imposed fresh fines of €5.5…

Fortinet Firewall Vulnerability
20
Jan
2023

New Chinese Malware Spotted Exploiting Recent Fortinet Firewall Vulnerability

Jan 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananFirewall / Network Security A suspected China-nexus threat actor exploited a recently patched vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS…

Bitzlato Crypto Exchange
19
Jan
2023

Bitzlato Crypto Exchange Founder Arrested for Aiding Cybercriminals

Jan 19, 2023Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Money Laundering The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the arrest of Anatoly…

Microsoft Azure Vulnerability
19
Jan
2023

New Microsoft Azure Vulnerability Uncovered — Experts Warn of RCE Attacks

Jan 19, 2023Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Data Security A new critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw discovered impacting multiple services…

Hook Malware
19
Jan
2023

New Hook Malware with RAT Capabilities Emerges

Jan 19, 2023Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Android The threat actor behind the BlackRock and ERMAC Android banking trojans has unleashed…

Malicious LNK Files
19
Jan
2023

New Research Delves into the World of Malicious LNK Files and Hackers Behind Them

Jan 19, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Malware Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging malicious LNK files as an initial access method to…

Risk Assessment Methodologies
19
Jan
2023

6 Types of Risk Assessment Methodologies + How to Choose

An organization’s sensitive information is under constant threat. Identifying those security risks is critical to protecting that information. But some…

Mailchimp
19
Jan
2023

Mailchimp Suffers Another Security Breach Compromising Some Customers’ Information

Jan 19, 2023Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Security Breach Popular email marketing and newsletter service Mailchimp has disclosed yet another security…

NjRAT Trojan
18
Jan
2023

Earth Bogle Campaign Unleashes NjRAT Trojan on Middle East and North Africa

Jan 18, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Malware An ongoing campaign dubbed Earth Bogle is leveraging geopolitical-themed lures to deliver the…

Remote Code Execution Attacks
18
Jan
2023

Git Users Urged to Update Software to Prevent Remote Code Execution Attacks

Jan 18, 2023Ravie LakshmananDevOpsSec / Software Security The maintainers of the Git source code version control system have released updates…

Netcomm and TP-Link Routers
18
Jan
2023

Critical Security Vulnerabilities Discovered in Netcomm and TP-Link Routers

Jan 18, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security Security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Netcomm and TP-Link routers, some of which could be…