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CISA and the FBI said today that Black Basta ransomware affiliates breached over 500 organizations between April 2022 and May 2024. In a joint report published in collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), the two federal agencies added that the gang also…
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Does your organization currently have a cyber insurance policy? Without it, you are missing a critical piece of a holistic security strategy. With increased cyberattacks and expansion in cloud and digital operational technology (OT) assets, organizations face significant costs during and after breaches. This has led to expensive claim payouts by cyber insurance providers, and,…
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Threat actors are using Domain Name System (DNS) tunneling to track when their targets open phishing emails and click on malicious links, and to scan networks for potential vulnerabilities. DNS tunneling is the encoding of data or commands that are sent and retrieved via DNS queries, essentially turning DNS, a fundamental network communication component, into a covert communications channel. The threat actors encode…
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Have I Been Pwned has added the information for 26,818,266 people whose data was leaked in a recent hack of The Post Millennial conservative news website. The Post Millennial is a conservative Canadian online news magazine belonging to the Human Events Media Group, which also operates the American ‘Human Events’ news platform. Earlier this month, both news platforms were hacked,…
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Taking his place is Kevin O’Buckley, a veteran of IBM, GlobalFoundries and Marvell Technologies who will now lead the semiconductor giant’s contract chip manufacturing division, which is a key part of CEO Pat Gelsinger’s comeback plan. Intel said on Monday that the head of the company’s contract chip manufacturing division is retiring and handing the…
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A Korean cybersecurity expert has been sentenced to prison for illegally accessing and distributing private videos from vulnerable “wallpad” cameras in 400,000 private households. The 41-year-old man, who has not been officially named, succeeded in remotely accessing 638 apartment complexes in South Korea. He exploited over 400,000 smart home devices used by residents to operate…
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Firstmac Limited is warning customers that it suffered a data breach a day after the new Embargo cyber-extortion group leaked over 500GB of data allegedly stolen from the firm. Firstmac is a significant player in Australia’s financial services industry, focusing primarily on mortgage lending, investment management, and securitization services. Headquartered in Brisbane, Queensland, and employing 460 people,…
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‘The market is still kind of slowing down [but] the number of deals is still better than before the pandemic, so it’s not the end of the world,’ says John Holland, managing director of Corporate Finance Associates. Due in large part to high interest rates, IT services M&A transactions and the aggregate value of those…
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The City of Helsinki is investigating a data breach in its education division, which it discovered in late April 2024, impacting tens of thousands of students, guardians, and personnel. Though information about the attack was circulated on May 2, 2024, the city’s authorities shared more details in a press conference earlier today. According to the details disclosed…
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‘The message that I want everyone to come away with is Avaya is roaring back … the uniqueness of the strategy: Innovation without disruption, so, prem[ise] gives way to cloud over time, or voice gives way to digital, and you can happily move those interactions intra-Avaya without ever having disruption, the UC behemoth’s CEO Alan…
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