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The staggering sum of US $75 million has reportedly been paid to a ransomware gang in what is believed to be the largest known ransom payment made by a cyber attack victim since records began. Researchers at Zscaler claim in a new report that the record-breaking figure was paid by an undisclosed Fortune 50 company…
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Image: MidjourneyThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns of scammers posing as employees of cryptocurrency exchanges to steal funds from unsuspecting victims. While the FBI didn’t share what prompted today’s public service announcement, it was likely motivated by a surge of reports of fraudsters using this tactic to access victims’ accounts and siphon off their…
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Aug 01, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Threat Intelligence Over a million domains are susceptible to takeover by malicious actors by means of what has been called a Sitting Ducks attack. The powerful attack vector, which exploits weaknesses in the domain name system (DNS), is being exploited by over a dozen Russian-nexus cybercriminal actors to stealthily hijack…
Read MoreUpdate 9:00 a.m., EDT, July 31, 2024: DigiCert has provided updated information and revocation timelines which can be found by visiting: https://status.digicert.com/ CISA encourages customers to contact DigiCert if unable to reissue/rekey certificates by the updated revocation deadline: 3:30 p.m., EDT, July 31, 2024. Initial Alert (7:00 p.m., EDT, July 30, 2024): DigiCert, a certificate…
Read MoreCISA released nine Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on August 1, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisories for technical details and mitigations. Source link lol
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From AT&T to Salesforce and Microsoft, these are among the biggest cloud outages this year so far. A major AT&T outage in February. Salesforce service failures in May. And Microsoft solution providers facing down times in Azure and Microsoft 365 in July. These are just some of the biggest cloud outages the world has faced…
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‘What’s really special about this is the opportunity to work with some really great people,’ says Tim Conkle, CEO of The 20 MSP. ‘If I’ve learned anything in my career, it’s that getting smart and [having] driven people together in the same room is a recipe for magic.’ The 20 MSP has made its ninth…
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In yet another sign that threat actors are always looking out for new ways to trick users into downloading malware, it has come to light that the question-and-answer (Q&A) platform known as Stack Exchange has been abused to direct unsuspecting developers to bogus Python packages capable of draining their cryptocurrency wallets. “Upon installation, this code…
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Aug 01, 2024Ravie LakshmananBanking Trojan / Cyber Fraud Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new Android remote access trojan (RAT) called BingoMod that not only performs fraudulent money transfers from the compromised devices but also wipes them in an attempt to erase traces of the malware. Italian cybersecurity firm Cleafy, which discovered the RAT towards the…
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‘Cautious customer behavior once again elongated sales cycles, then drove prioritization of needs over wants and cost savings over expansion. Capital investment in complex solutions, particularly those tied to data center and network modernization, continued to be downsized or put on hold. And there was growing refresh activity in client devices,’ says CDW Chair and…
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