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Month: July 2023

High-Severity Flaws Fixed in Firefox 115 Update

One of them, CVE-2023-37201, involved a use-after-free issue in WebRTC certificate generation

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  • July 5, 2023

C10p’s MOVEit Campaign Represents a New Era in Cyberattacks

The ransomware group shows an evolution of its tactics with MOVEit zero day — potentially ushering in a new normal when it comes to extortion supply chain cyberattacks, experts say.

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Sophisticated Email Attacks Target Cryptocurrency Wallets

Discovered by Kaspersky, the campaign delivered 85,000 scam emails during the spring of 2023

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  • July 5, 2023

China’s Mustang Panda Linked to SmugX Attacks on European Governments

Attackers use HTML smuggling to spread the PlugX RAT in the campaign, which has been ongoing since at least December.

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Sophisticated Email Attacks Target Cryptocurrency Wallets

Discovered by Kaspersky, the campaign delivered 85,000 scam emails during the spring of 2023

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Class-Action Lawsuit for Scraping Data without Permission

I have mixed feelings about this class-action lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming that it “scraped 300 billion words from the internet” without either registering as a data broker or obtaining consent. On the one hand, I want this to be a protected fair use of public data. On the other hand, I want us […]

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  • July 5, 2023

Resilience at the core of the current and future Biden administration cybersecurity plans

As the Biden administration continues to develop US cybersecurity requirements on software and supply chain security, zero trust, and incident reporting, among other initiatives, the projects have one often-unstated overarching goal: Improve the cybersecurity resilience of the nation’s critical infrastructure. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defines cybersecurity resilience as “the ability […]

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  • July 5, 2023

Botnets responsible for over 95% malicious web traffic globally: Report

Botnets are globally responsible for over 95% of malicious web traffic, according to research conducted by managed cybersecurity provider Trustwave. For the research, Trustwave implemented a network of honeypots located in multiple countries including Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the UK, China, and the United States. “By distributing honeypots in such a manner, we can gather a […]

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  • July 5, 2023

Microsoft Can Fix Ransomware Tomorrow

You can’t encrypt a file you can’t open — Microsoft could dramatically impact ransomware by slowing it down.

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