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Apr 11, 2024The Hacker NewsSoftware Security / Programming GitGuardian is famous for its annual State of Secrets Sprawl report. In their 2023 report, they found over 10 million exposed passwords, API keys, and other credentials exposed in public GitHub commits. The takeaways in their 2024 report did not just highlight 12.8 million new exposed secrets…
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is urging organizations to change any credentials they might have shared or stored with Sisense, a data analytics software and services provider, due to a compromise that’s still being investigated. Sisense’s platform allows companies to connect various data sources including databases, spreadsheets, cloud services and web applications…
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Ouch. On 7 March 2024, the UK’s Leicester City Council had its systems disrupted by a devastating cyber attack, forcing it to shut down its IT systems and phone lines. Among those affected were care home workers and the homeless. Sign up to our free newsletter.Security news, advice, and tips. By the end of March,…
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What’s going on? A relatively new strain of ransomware called DragonForce has making the headlines after a series of high-profile attacks. Like many other ransomware groups, DragonForce attempts to extort money from its victims in two ways – locking companies out of their computers and data through encryption, and exfiltrating data from compromised systems with…
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The East Central University (ECU) of Ada, Oklahoma, has revealed that a ransomware gang launched an attack against its systems that left some computers and servers encrypted and may have also seen sensitive information stolen. In an advisory posted on its website, ECU claims that the BlackSuit ransomware gang was unsuccessful in taking down the…
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ARC Labs and Binary Defense are actively monitoring a compromise of data associated with Sisense, a company that provides data analytic product and services. At this point, it is unknown if the Sisense’s network was compromised but independent researchers and government organizations indicate that data impacting Sisense has been discovered outside of an authorized space.…
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Apr 11, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Ransomware A threat actor tracked as TA547 has targeted dozens of German organizations with an information stealer called Rhadamanthys as part of an invoice-themed phishing campaign. “This is the first time researchers observed TA547 use Rhadamanthys, an information stealer that is used by multiple cybercriminal threat actors,” Proofpoint said. “Additionally,…
Read MoreBackdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened Last week, the internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. It’s a catastrophe that didn’t happen, so it won’t get much attention—but it should. There’s an important moral to the story of the attack and its discovery: The security of the…
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Businesses are increasingly moving their data to the cloud, making cloud security a top priority. To address this growing need, Google Cloud has introduced Security Command Center Enterprise (SCC Enterprise), a new solution that combines Google’s security fabric with threat intelligence from Mandiant. SCC Enterprise provides businesses with a more comprehensive view of their cloud…
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Apr 11, 2024NewsroomSpyware / Cyber Espionage Apple on Wednesday revised its documentation pertaining to its mercenary spyware threat notification system to mention that it alerts users when they may have been individually targeted by such attacks. It also specifically called out companies like NSO Group for developing commercial surveillance tools such as Pegasus that are…
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