Category: Viral
Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and National Security Agency (NSA) assess that cyber actors affiliated with the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 161st Specialist Training Center (Unit 29155) are responsible for computer network operations against global targets for the purposes of espionage, sabotage, and reputational…
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[‘Frontier] will build on Verizon’s two decades of leadership at the forefront of fiber and is an opportunity to become more competitive in more markets throughout the United States, enhancing our ability to deliver premium offerings to millions more customers across a combined fiber network,’ says Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg. Verizon is acquiring Frontier Communications…
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of 32 internet domains used by a pro-Russian propaganda operation called Doppelganger as part of a sweeping set of actions. Accusing the Russian government-directed foreign malign influence campaign of violating U.S. money laundering and criminal trademark laws, the agency called out companies Social Design…
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“It’s a perfect fit for our platform,” Kiteworks SVP Amit Toren told CRN in an interview. Kiteworks has purchased 123FormBuilder in a move that promises to boost the data privacy and compliance tools vendor’s secure data collection capabilities – and the vendor is still hunting for more acquisitions following a $456 million growth equity investment.…
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‘Customers are exploring new ways to use AI, adding to our already robust pipeline and creating even more runway for our broad AI offerings,’ said HPE CEO Antonio Neri as the company released fiscal third quarter financial results. ‘Enterprise interest in generative AI is high, and while adoption is still in the initial stages, it…
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Sep 05, 2024The Hacker NewsThreat Detection / Vulnerability Management It’s been a decade since the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) introduced its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 1.0. Created following a 2013 Executive Order, NIST was tasked with designing a voluntary cybersecurity framework that would help organizations manage cyber risk, providing guidance based on established…
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Threat actors are likely employing a tool designated for red teaming exercises to serve malware, according to new findings from Cisco Talos. The program in question is a payload generation framework called MacroPack, which is used to generate Office documents, Visual Basic scripts, Windows shortcuts, and other formats for penetration testing and social engineering assessments.…
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Sep 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Malware The Chinese-speaking threat actor known as Earth Lusca has been observed using a new backdoor dubbed KTLVdoor as part of a cyber attack targeting an unnamed trading company based in China. The previously unreported malware is written in Golang, and thus is a cross-platform weapon capable of targeting…
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Sep 05, 2024Ravie Lakshmanan Cisco has released security updates for two critical security flaws impacting its Smart Licensing Utility that could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to elevate their privileges or access sensitive information. A brief description of the two vulnerabilities is below – CVE-2024-20439 (CVSS score: 9.8) – The presence of an undocumented static user…
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Business Security Would a more robust cybersecurity posture impact premium costs? Does the policy offer legal cover? These are some of the questions organizations should consider when reviewing their cyber insurance options 04 Sep 2024 • , 3 min. read There must be a consideration of the ethical question of contributing to the payment of…
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