Category: Viral
A “simplified Chinese-speaking actor” has been linked to a new campaign that has targeted multiple countries in Asia and Europe with the end goal of performing search engine optimization (SEO) rank manipulation. The black hat SEO cluster has been codenamed DragonRank by Cisco Talos, with victimology footprint scattered across Thailand, India, Korea, Belgium, the Netherlands,…
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AWS is injecting $10.5 billion over the next five years into the U.K. to expand its data centers in the region with the goal of enabling AI solutions for British businesses. Amazon Web Services continues to spread its massive cloud infrastructure footprint across the globe by unveiling a $10.5 billion investment in its U.K. data…
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Sep 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Crime / Hacking The Singapore Police Force (SPF) has announced the arrest of five Chinese nationals and one Singaporean man for their alleged involvement in illicit cyber activities in the country. The development comes after a group of about 160 law enforcement officials conducted a series of raids on September 9,…
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Imagine a world where you never have to remember another password. Seems like a dream come true for both end users and IT teams, right? But as the old saying goes, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” If your organization is like many, you may be contemplating a move to…
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Sep 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Software Development Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new set of malicious Python packages that target software developers under the guise of coding assessments. “The new samples were tracked to GitHub projects that have been linked to previous, targeted attacks in which developers are lured using fake job interviews,” ReversingLabs researcher…
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ESET researchers have mapped the recent activities of the CosmicBeetle threat actor, documenting its new ScRansom ransomware and highlighting connections to other well-established ransomware gangs. CosmicBeetle actively deploys ScRansom to SMBs in various parts of the world. While not being top notch, the threat actor is able to compromise interesting targets. CosmicBeetle replaced its previously…
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Sep 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Vulnerability Ivanti has released software updates to address multiple security flaws impacting Endpoint Manager (EPM), including 10 critical vulnerabilities that could result in remote code execution. A brief description of the issues is as follows – CVE-2024-29847 (CVSS score: 10.0) – A deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability that allows…
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Sep 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananWindows Security / Vulnerability Microsoft on Tuesday disclosed that three new security flaws impacting the Windows platform have come under active exploitation as part of its Patch Tuesday update for September 2024. The monthly security release addresses a total of 79 vulnerabilities, of which seven are rated Critical, 71 are rated Important,…
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In an Oracle CloudWorld keynote, the Oracle founder and CTO also held up the company’s new alliance with Amazon Web Services as the start of the “open multi-cloud era.” Oracle’s next-generation network security technology, which leverages AI and biometric authentication to thwart cyber threats, is now available in the Oracle Cloud, Oracle founder, chairman and…
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Microsoft Corp. today released updates to fix at least 79 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software, including multiple flaws that are already showing up in active attacks. Microsoft also corrected a critical bug that has caused some Windows 10 PCs to remain dangerously unpatched against actively exploited vulnerabilities for several months…
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