Category: Kamban
Two Russian nations have pleaded guilty to involvement in many LockBit ransomware attacks, which targeted victims worldwide and across the United States. According to a Justice Department press release on Thursday, Russian national Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov and Canadian/Russian national Mikhail Vasiliev were both affiliates of LockBit’s ransomware-as-a-service operation. LockBit affiliates like Vasiliev and Astamirov would…
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Microsoft says an Azure configuration change caused a major Microsoft 365 outage on Thursday, affecting customers across the Central US region. This massive outage started around 6:00 PM EST and prevented users from accessing various Microsoft 365 apps and services. The list of services impacted by the outage includes Microsoft Defender, Intune, Teams, PowerBI, Fabric,…
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A cybercriminal gang that researchers track as Revolver Rabbit has registered more than 500,000 domain names for infostealer campaigns that target Windows and macOS systems. To operate at such scale, the threat actor relies on registered domain generation algorithms (RDGAs), an automated method that allows registering multiple domain names in an instant. RDGAs are similar…
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SolarWinds has fixed eight critical vulnerabilities in its Access Rights Manager (ARM) software, six of which allowed attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable devices. Access Rights Manager is a critical tool in enterprise environments that helps admins manage and audit access rights across their organization’s IT infrastructure to minimize threat impact. The…
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‘Cork 2.0 is about making further investments for the MSP to help all of our collective SMB clients be more successful,’ says Dan Candee, Cork’s new CEO. ‘We’re taking an MSP-first approach to adding value, helping them make sense of their stack and their risk profile to provide the right integrations, insight and introductions around…
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Microsoft has fixed a known issue preventing the Microsoft Photos app from starting on some Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2 systems. The bug only appears after updating to Microsoft Photos app version 2024.11050.29009.0 and above via the Windows Store (on or after June 4, 2024). “On launching the app, it might display a spinning circle,…
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Cisco has fixed a critical severity vulnerability that lets attackers add new users with root privileges and permanently crash Security Email Gateway (SEG) appliances using emails with malicious attachments. Tracked as CVE-2024-20401, this arbitrary file write security flaw in the SEG content scanning and message filtering features is caused by an absolute path traversal weakness…
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‘After a four-year adventure at AWS and about eight years at some of the big companies, I needed to get back to my roots,’ says Dan Candee, new CEO of Cork. ‘I needed to be back in the startup and entrepreneurial mindset. I needed to be working with partners day in day out. I needed…
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Microsoft says the Windows 11 2023 Update has entered the broad deployment phase and is now available to all seekers on eligible systems. Also known as Windows 11 23H2, this latest release will now be offered to all Windows devices not configured to defer feature updates and unaffected by compatibility holds. “Windows 11, version 23H2,…
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We’re now more than halfway through 2024, and it’s clear that the year is already shaping up to set new records for ransomware, with a wide range of high-profile organizations coming under attack. Therefore, it’s more important than ever for businesses to ensure they have the right tools in place to protect against these threats.…
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