Category: Viral
Aug 28, 2024Ravie LakshmananPhishing Attack / Data Breach Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new QR code phishing (aka quishing) campaign that leverages Microsoft Sway infrastructure to host fake pages, once again highlighting the abuse of legitimate cloud offerings for malicious purposes. “By using legitimate cloud applications, attackers provide credibility to victims, helping them…
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Aug 28, 2024Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw affecting the Apache OFBiz open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, known as CVE-2024-38856, carries a CVSS…
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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan was a guest at VMware Explore in Las Vegas last year, but one year and $69 billion dollars later, it is his party as the newly acquired VMware By Broadcom showed off new cloud foundations, Tanzu, and AI products designed to simplify cloud deployments and deliver private, virtualized AI infrastructure. Paul…
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After the massive CrowdStrike-caused Windows outage last month, SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten says the incident revealed that cybersecurity ‘is not a winner-takes-all market.’ SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten said Tuesday that the massive Microsoft Windows outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update last month signals the dangers of consolidating too heavily on certain technology vendors. “The…
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HP will “modernize and expand our facility” with the funds, CEO Enrique Lores said in a statement. HP has inked preliminary terms for a $50 million award from the U.S. federal government that would support its microfluids semiconductor fab in Oregon. Should HP receive the funds, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer maker will “modernize and…
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Having achieved $100 million in ARR last year, the developer of data management and observability software says it now ranks among the fastest growing infrastructure software companies in the IT industry. Cribl has raised $319 million in an oversubscribed Series E funding round that boosted the valuation of the developer of IT and security data…
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A zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director has reportedly been exploited by Chinese government hackers to target internet service providers and MSPs. Internet service providers and MSPs are the main targets of a cyberattack campaign exploiting a Versa Networks SD-WAN vulnerability and linked to the Chinese government, according to security researchers and media reports. The attacks…
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Aug 27, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware Users of Chinese instant messaging apps like DingTalk and WeChat are the target of an Apple macOS version of a backdoor named HZ RAT. The artifacts “almost exactly replicate the functionality of the Windows version of the backdoor and differ only in the payload, which is received in…
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Check Point will add 170 employees with the planned acquisition of external risk management firm Cyberint. Check Point Software Technologies aims to add more than 170 employees with the planned acquisition of external risk management firm Cyberint Technologies, the company said Tuesday. Check Point said it has reached an agreement to acquire the 14-year-old company…
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Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director, a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon, a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. networks and laying the groundwork for the ability to disrupt communications between the United States…
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