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Russian Hackers Suspected of Sweden Cyberattack AFP
Swedish government agencies and shops were disrupted by a ransomware attack believed to have been carried out by Russian hackers. The post Russian Hackers Suspected of Sweden Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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From Megabits to Terabits: Gcore Radar Warns of a New Era of DDoS Attacks [email protected] (The Hacker News)
As we enter 2024, Gcore has released its latest Gcore Radar report, a twice-annual publication in which the company releases internal analytics to track DDoS attacks. Gcore’s broad, internationally distributed network of scrubbing centers allows them to follow attack trends over time. Read on to learn about DDoS attack trends for Q3–Q4 of 2023, and…
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F5 Names Samir Sherif as New CISO SecurityWeek News
F5 names Samir Sherif as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), taking over the role from Gail Coury who will retire March 1st. The post F5 Names Samir Sherif as New CISO appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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Subway Sandwich Chain Investigating Ransomware Group’s Claims Eduard Kovacs
The LockBit ransomware group claims to have stolen hundreds of gigabytes of data from US sandwich chain Subway. The post Subway Sandwich Chain Investigating Ransomware Group’s Claims appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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BreachForums Founder Sentenced to 20 Years of Supervised Release, No Jail Time [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick has been sentenced to time served and 20 years of supervised release for his role as the creator and administrator of BreachForums. Fitzpatrick, who went by the online alias “pompompurin,” was arrested in March 2023 in New York and was subsequently charged with conspiracy to commit access device fraud and possession of…
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A Sanction Has Been Imposed on a Hacker Who Released Australian Health Insurer Client Data Associated Press
Russian national sanctioned by the Australian government for his role in the Medibank attack impacting more than 10 million Australians. The post A Sanction Has Been Imposed on a Hacker Who Released Australian Health Insurer Client Data appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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~40,000 Attacks in 3 Days: Critical Confluence RCE Under Active Exploitation [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Malicious actors have begun to actively exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server, within three days of public disclosure. Tracked as CVE-2023-22527 (CVSS score: 10.0), the vulnerability impacts out-of-date versions of the software, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution on susceptibleRead More
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Apple Issues Patch for Critical Zero-Day in iPhones, Macs – Update Now [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Apple on Monday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and Safari web browser to address a zero-day flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-23222, is a type confusion bug that could be exploited by a threat actor to achieve arbitrary code execution when processing maliciously…
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Apple Ships iOS 17.3, Warns of WebKit Zero-Day Exploitation Ryan Naraine
Apple pushes out fresh versions of its iOS and macOS platforms to fix WebKit vulnerabilities being exploited as zero-day in the wild. The post Apple Ships iOS 17.3, Warns of WebKit Zero-Day Exploitation appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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North Korean Hackers Weaponize Fake Research to Deliver RokRAT Backdoor [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Media organizations and high-profile experts in North Korean affairs have been at the receiving end of a new campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as ScarCruft in December 2023. “ScarCruft has been experimenting with new infection chains, including the use of a technical threat research report as a decoy, likely targeting consumers of threat intelligence like…