Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an ongoing malvertising campaign that abuses Meta’s advertising platform and hijacked Facebook accounts to distribute information known as SYS01stealer. “The hackers behind the campaign use trusted brands to expand their reach,” Bitdefender Labs said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “The malvertising campaign leverages nearly a hundred malicious domains,…
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CRN staff compiled the top partner-friendly products that launched or were significantly updated over the last year. Now it’s up to solution providers to choose the winners. Application Performance and Observability As more applications run in hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments, maintaining application performance has becoming a more complex task. Application performance management and observability tools…
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Oct 30, 2024Ravie Lakshmanan Browser Security / Vulnerability A now-patched security flaw in the Opera web browser could have enabled a malicious extension to gain unauthorized, full access to private APIs. The attack, codenamed CrossBarking, could have made it possible to conduct actions such as capturing screenshots, modifying browser settings, and account hijacking, Guardio Labs…
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A large-scale malicious operation named “EmeraldWhale” scanned for exposed Git configuration files to steal over 15,000 cloud account credentials from thousands of private repositories. According to Sysdig, who discovered the campaign, the operation involves using automated tools that scan IP ranges for exposed Git configuration files, which may include authentication tokens. These tokens are then used to…
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Change Healthcare says it has notified approximately 100 million Americans that their personal, financial and healthcare records may have been stolen in a February 2024 ransomware attack that caused the largest ever known data breach of protected health information. Image: Tamer Tuncay, Shutterstock.com. A ransomware attack at Change Healthcare in the third week of February…
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning of multiple schemes taking advantage of the upcoming U.S. general election to scam people out of their money or personal data. The fraudsters exploit the elevated legitimate activity surrounding the elections to scam people by impersonating real candidates and political movements. In most cases, the goal of…
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Third-quarter revenue for Google Cloud climbed 35 percent from a year ago and ‘the overall opportunity is increasing as customers embrace GenAI,’ Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during the company’s quarterly call Tuesday. Google Cloud’s aggressive investments into enabling the adoption of AI infrastructure and GenAI capabilities are paying off as the tech giant is…
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In today’s digital landscape, businesses that handle sensitive data or provide critical services to other organizations face increasing scrutiny regarding their security and operational practices. A SOC audit is one of the most important ways to demonstrate the robustness of these practices. But what exactly is a SOC audit, and how can your organization prepare…
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Oct 30, 2024The Hacker NewsVulnerability / Compliance Navigating the complexities of compliance frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC 2, or GDPR can be daunting. Luckily, Intruder simplifies the process by helping you address the key vulnerability management criteria these frameworks demand, making your compliance journey much smoother. Read on to understand how to meet the requirements…
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Oct 30, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrim / Cryptocurrency Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious Python package that masquerades as a cryptocurrency trading tool but harbors functionality designed to steal sensitive data and drain assets from victims’ crypto wallets. The package, named “CryptoAITools,” is said to have been distributed via both Python Package Index (PyPI) and bogus…
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