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  • October 26, 2022

Hackers Actively Exploiting Cisco AnyConnect and GIGABYTE Drivers Vulnerabilities

Cisco has warned of active exploitation attempts targeting a pair of two-year-old security flaws in the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows. Tracked as CVE-2020-3153 (CVSS score: 6.5) and CVE-2020-3433 (CVSS score: 7.8), the vulnerabilities could enable local authenticated attackers to perform DLL hijacking and copy arbitrary files to system directories with elevated privileges.

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  • October 26, 2022

Vice Society Hackers Are Behind Several Ransomware Attacks Against Education Sector

A cybercrime group known as Vice Society has been linked to multiple ransomware strains in its malicious campaigns aimed at the education, government, and retail sectors. The Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence team, which is tracking the threat cluster under the moniker DEV-0832, said the group avoids deploying ransomware in some cases and rather likely carries out extortion […]

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ICO Warns of “Immature” Biometric Tech

UK privacy regulator says vulnerable people may be at risk

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See Tickets Discloses Major Card Data Breach

Unspecified number of customers impacted over 2.5 years

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Ransomware Threat Shifts from US to EMEA and APAC

SonicWall figures show overall attacks trending down

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  • October 26, 2022

VMware Releases Patch for Critical RCE Flaw in Cloud Foundation Platform

VMware on Tuesday shipped security updates to address a critical security flaw in its VMware Cloud Foundation product. Tracked as CVE-2021-39144, the issue has been rated 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS vulnerability scoring system, and relates to a remote code execution vulnerability via XStream open source library. “Due to an unauthenticated endpoint that […]

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  • October 26, 2022

Clearview AI image-scraping face recognition service hit with €20m fine in France

“We told you to stop but you ignored us,” said the French regulator, “so now we’re coming after you again.”

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The most dangerous and destructive ransomware groups of 2022

As ransomware attacks continued this year, a few key groups inflicted some of the greatest damage to their victims. The post The most dangerous and destructive ransomware groups of 2022 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Secure corporate emails with intent-based BEC detection

Business email compromise is a severe threat that might affect any company. One promising way to improve detection on this kind of cybercrime might be intent-based detection. The post Secure corporate emails with intent-based BEC detection appeared first on TechRepublic.

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