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The U.S. Department of Justice has unsealed the indictment against two suspected Snowflake hackers, who breached more than 165 organizations using the services of the Snowflake cloud storage company. Connor Riley Moucka and John Erin Binns are accused of using credentials, obtained with the help of info-stealing malware, to hijack Snowflake accounts that were not…
Read MoreAttackers now target a critical severity vulnerability with publicly available exploit code that affects multiple models of end-of-life D-Link network-attached storage (NAS) devices. […] Source link lol
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Today is Microsoft’s November 2024 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 89 flaws, including four zero-days, two of which are actively exploited. This Patch Tuesday fixed four critical vulnerabilities, which include two remote code execution and two elevation of privileges flaws. The number of bugs in each vulnerability category is listed below: 26 Elevation…
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Google is adding a new AI-powered scam protection feature that monitors phone call conversations on Google Pixel devices to detect patterns that warn when the caller may be a scammer. Google has also added a new real-time protection feature to Google Play Protect that detects when unsafe apps are found on Google Play. The features…
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‘As a part of aligning our resources with our largest growth opportunities, we are taking a number of targeted steps that will unfortunately result in reducing our global workforce by approximately 4 percent,’ an AMD spokesperson says in a statement to CRN. AMD said it’s laying off roughly 4 percent of its global workforce to…
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Silverfort, a leader in identity security, announced its acquisition of Rezonate, a pioneering firm in identity-first security for cloud environments. This acquisition combines Silverfort’s robust on-premise identity security solutions with Rezonate’s innovative cloud-focused identity security capabilities, creating the industry’s most comprehensive platform for protecting enterprise identities. The new unified platform is set to launch mid-2025…
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‘MinIO embraced the S3 API as the standard. And today, MinIO’s adoption is larger than Amazon S3’s. Customers are in the cloud, across the cloud, in private clouds, all the way to edge. Our user application ecosystem is much larger than Amazon’s. We are the single largest player. We made the S3 API an industry…
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Bitdefender has released a decryptor for the ‘ShrinkLocker’ ransomware strain, which uses Windows’ built-in BitLocker drive encryption tool to lock victim’s files. Discovered in May 2024 by researchers at cybersecurity company Kaspersky, ShrinkLocker lacks the sophistication of other ransomware families but integrates features that can maximize the damage of an attack. According to Bitdefender’s analysis, the malware appears…
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As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform business operations, it’s also changing the face of cybercrime. One area particularly vulnerable to AI-powered attacks is Business Email Compromise (BEC), a form of fraud that targets companies by manipulating employees into transferring money or sensitive information. With AI in the mix, BEC has become more sophisticated, presenting…
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Data theft has become an undeniable geopolitical weapon, and no player has mastered this art quite like North Korea. Rather than relying solely on traditional hacking methods, the regime has adopted a far more insidious approach — exploiting the vulnerabilities of the job market. This might be why fake job ad scams saw a 28%…
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