Month: October 2024
Casio now confirms it suffered a ransomware attack earlier this month, warning that the personal and confidential data of employees, job candidates, and some customers was also stolen. The attack was disclosed Monday when Casio warned that it was facing system disruption and service outages due to unauthorized access to its networks during the weekend.…
Read MoreA new TD Synnex report illustrates how the technology landscape is shifting and ‘validates the need for partnership,’ says Calhoun McKinney, senior director of advanced solutions, go-to-market strategy and enablement, at the distributor’s Insipire 2024 conference. IT distribution giant TD Synnex Wednesday published a new report it said shows channel partners how the technology landscape…
Read MoreMore security teams are incorporating AI to uplevel their defense strategies and boost productivity. With so much AI buzz, it may be overwhelming to decipher which tools to acquire and how they fit in a modern security strategy. Read on to explore how AI-enabled tools can help enhance your security program in this special edition…
Read MoreThreat actors constantly change tactics to bypass cybersecurity measures, developing innovative methods to steal user credentials. Hybrid password attacks merge multiple cracking techniques to amplify their effectiveness. These combined approaches exploit the strengths of various methods, accelerating the password-cracking process. In this post, we’ll explore hybrid attacks — what they are and the most common…
Read MoreOct 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that it has observed threat actors leveraging unencrypted persistent cookies managed by the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) module to conduct reconnaissance of target networks. It said the module is being used to enumerate other non-internet-facing devices…
Read MoreOct 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananDevOps / Vulnerability GitLab has released security updates for Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) to address eight security flaws, including a critical bug that could allow running Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines on arbitrary branches. Tracked as CVE-2024-9164, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.6 out of…
Read MoreOct 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Dark Web The Dutch police have announced the takedown of Bohemia and Cannabia, which has been described as the world’s largest and longest-running dark web market for illegal goods, drugs, and cybercrime services. The takedown is the result of a collaborative investigation with Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United…
Read MoreThe growing popularity of online marketplaces has attracted fraudsters preying on unsuspecting buyers and sellers, looking to score payment card information rather than to strike a bargain. ESET researchers have found that one such organized scammer network – which uses Telekopye, a toolkit discovered by ESET Research in 2023 – has expanded its operations to…
Read MoreUkraine’s cyber police have arrested a 28-year-old man who operated a massive virtual private network (VPN) service, allowing people from within the country to access the Russian internet (Runet). Runet is the portion of the internet that includes Russian sites on the “.ru” and “.su” top-level domains, including government sites, social media platforms, search engines, and…
Read MoreRansomware gangs now exploit a critical security vulnerability that lets attackers gain remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) servers. Code White security researcher Florian Hauser found that the security flaw, now tracked as CVE-2024-40711, is caused by a deserialization of untrusted data weakness that unauthenticated threat actors can exploit in…
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