General Security News
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The Rise of S3 Ransomware: How to Identify and Combat It
In today's digital landscape, around 60% of corporate data now resides in the cloud, with Amazon S3 standing as the backbone of data storage for...
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Alert: PoC Exploits Released for Citrix and VMware Vulnerabilities
Virtualization services provider VMware has alerted customers to the existence of a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a recently patched security...
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Ex-NSA Employee Pleads Guilty to Leaking Classified Data to Russia
A former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has pleaded guilty to charges accusing him of attempting to transmit classified...
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34 Cybercriminals Arrested in Spain for Multi-Million Dollar Online Scams
Spanish law enforcement officials have announced the arrest of 34 members of a criminal group that carried out various online scams, netting the...
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1Password Detects Suspicious Activity Following Okta Support Breach
Popular password management solution 1Password said it detected suspicious activity on its Okta instance on September 29 following the support...
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DoNot Team's New Firebird Backdoor Hits Pakistan and Afghanistan
The threat actor known as DoNot Team has been linked to the use of a novel .NET-based backdoor called Firebird targeting a handful of victims in...
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Who's Experimenting with AI Tools in Your Organization?
With the record-setting growth of consumer-focused AI productivity tools like ChatGPT, artificial intelligence—formerly the realm of data science...
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Europol Dismantles Ragnar Locker Ransomware Infrastructure, Nabs Key Developer
Europol on Friday announced the takedown of the infrastructure associated with Ragnar Locker ransomware, alongside the arrest of a "key target" in...
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Okta's Support System Breach Exposes Customer Data to Unidentified Threat Actors
Identity services provider Okta on Friday disclosed a new security incident that allowed unidentified threat actors to leverage stolen credentials...
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Cisco Zero-Day Exploited to Implant Malicious Lua Backdoor on Thousands of Devices
Cisco has warned of a new zero-day flaw in IOS XE that has been actively exploited by an unknown threat actor to deploy a malicious Lua-based...
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Sophisticated MATA Framework Strikes Eastern European Oil and Gas Companies
An updated version of a sophisticated backdoor framework called MATA has been used in attacks aimed at over a dozen Eastern European companies in...
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Vulnerability Scanning: How Often Should I Scan?
The time between a vulnerability being discovered and hackers exploiting it is narrower than ever – just 12 days. So it makes sense that...