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Russian Hacktivists Continue Claiming DDoS Disruptions
Russian hacktivist groups' attacks have minimal impact and are more psychological than kinetic, aiming to degrade confidence in governments and rally support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Report: 69% of Organizations Infected by Ransomware in 2023
Per a Proofpoint report, over two-thirds of organizations experienced a successful ransomware incident in the past year, with close to 60% reporting four or more separate ransomware incidents.
Lazarus Exploits Typos to Sneak PyPI Malware into Dev Systems
The notorious North Korean state-backed hacking group Lazarus uploaded four packages to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository with the goal of infecting developer systems with malware. The packages, now taken down, are pycryptoenv, pycryptoconf, quasarlib,...
New Backdoor Targeting European Officials Linked to Indian Diplomatic Events
A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed SPIKEDWINE has been observed targeting officials in European countries with Indian diplomatic missions using a new backdoor called WINELOADER. The adversary, according to a report from Zscaler ThreatLabz, used a PDF file...
Biden Executive Order Seeks to Cut China off From Americans’ Sensitive Data
The new executive order targets the unregulated data broker industry and prohibits the sale of genomic, biometric, health, geolocation, and financial data to the identified countries.
Report: Business Logic Abuse Dominates as API Attacks Surge
According to Imperva's State of API Security Report, attacks on the business logic of APIs, including credential stuffing and data scraping, account for the largest share (27%) of API attacks.
Chinese Hackers Exploiting Ivanti VPN Flaws to Deploy New Malware
At least two different suspected China-linked cyber espionage clusters, tracked as UNC5325 and UNC3886, have been attributed to the exploitation of security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN appliances. UNC5325 abused CVE-2024-21893 to deliver a wide range of new...
President Biden Blocks Mass Transfer of Personal Data to High-Risk Nations
U.S. President Joe Biden has issued an Executive Order that prohibits the mass transfer of citizens' personal data to countries of concern. The Executive Order also "provides safeguards around other activities that can give those countries access to Americans'...
Update: Black Basta, Bl00dy Ransomware Gangs Join ScreenConnect Attacks
The Black Basta and Bl00dy ransomware gangs are exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2024-1709) in unpatched ScreenConnect servers to gain admin access and deploy ransomware.
Update: Black Basta, Bl00dy Ransomware Gangs Join ScreenConnect Attacks
The Black Basta and Bl00dy ransomware gangs are exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2024-1709) in unpatched ScreenConnect servers to gain admin access and deploy ransomware.
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