Category: Viral
A cyberattack that shut down two of the top casinos in Las Vegas last year quickly became one of the most riveting security stories of 2023: It was the first known case of native English-speaking hackers in the United States and Britain teaming up with ransomware gangs based in Russia. But that made-for-Hollywood narrative has…
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Sep 13, 2024Ravie LakshmananFinancial Fraud / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new variant of an Android banking trojan called TrickMo that comes packed with new capabilities to evade analysis and display fake login screens to capture victims’ banking credentials. “The mechanisms include using malformed ZIP files in combination with JSONPacker,” Cleafy security researchers…
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Sep 13, 2024Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new malware campaign targeting Linux environments to conduct illicit cryptocurrency mining. The activity, which specifically singles out the Oracle Weblogic server, is designed to deliver malware dubbed Hadooken, according to cloud security firm Aqua. “When Hadooken is executed, it drops a Tsunami malware…
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The credit card firm is getting into the threat intelligence business with the $2.65 billion acquisition. Credit card firm Mastercard announced Thursday it is getting into the threat intelligence business with the planned acquisition of Recorded Future. The acquisition price for the 15-year-old company is $2.65 billion, Mastercard disclosed. [Related: 5 Major Security Vendors That…
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A threat actor accessed ‘a limited number of files stored on Fortinet’s instance of a third-party cloud-based shared file drive,’ the security vendor says. Fortinet confirmed Thursday that it suffered a breach of its cloud storage environment that impacted customer data. The cybersecurity vendor characterized the incident as having minimal impact, however, saying the number…
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Sep 12, 2024Ravie LakshmananDevSecOps / Vulnerability GitLab on Wednesday released security updates to address 17 security vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw that allows an attacker to run pipeline jobs as an arbitrary user. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-6678, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10.0 “An issue was discovered in…
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Sep 12, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Financial Fraud Bank customers in the Central Asia region have been targeted by a new strain of Android malware codenamed Ajina.Banker since at least November 2024 with the goal of harvesting financial information and intercepting two-factor authentication (2FA) messages. Singapore-headquartered Group-IB, which discovered the threat in May 2024, said…
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‘At every turn, we’re putting partners first because we cannot succeed without you,’ ServiceNow Channel Chief Erica Volini said. Major changes to who qualifies as an Elite partner, growing the percentage of partner-sourced net-new annual contract value for ServiceNow Now Assist artificial intelligence tools, and a leadership team that is all in on partners are…
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CRN breaks down six significant recent executive departures and hires at Google Cloud, including the exit of Google’s Kubernetes leader and the hiring of Microsoft’s former corporate vice president. From the departure of Google Cloud’s Kubernetes and serverless general manager to the hiring of Microsoft’s former corporate vice president, Google Cloud’s top executive lineup continues…
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‘We’re investigating an issue where users may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services,’ the tech giant said. Microsoft reported an outage that prevented some users from accessing Azure and Microsoft 365 services starting Thursday morning, EDT. The Microsoft 365 X account disclosed the outage at 8:38 a.m., EDT, on Thursday. “We’re investigating an…
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