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Month: November 2024

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  • November 11, 2024

200,000 SelectBlinds customers have their card details skimmed in malware attack

Graham CLULEY November 11, 2024 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial SelectBlinds, a popular online retailer of blinds and shades, has disclosed a security breach that has impacted 206,238 of its customers. Hackers successfully managed to embed malware onto the company’s website, capable of stealing sensitive information, including credit […]

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  • November 11, 2024

THN Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools, and Practices (Nov 04 – Nov 10)

⚠️ Imagine this: the very tools you trust to protect you online—your two-factor authentication, your car’s tech system, even your security software—turned into silent allies for hackers. Sounds like a scene from a thriller, right? Yet, in 2024, this isn’t fiction; it’s the new cyber reality. Today’s attackers have become so sophisticated that they’re using […]

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  • November 11, 2024

New GootLoader Campaign Targets Users Searching for Bengal Cat Laws in Australia

In an unusually specific campaign, users searching about the legality of Bengal Cats in Australia are being targeted with the GootLoader malware. “In this case, we found the GootLoader actors using search results for information about a particular cat and a particular geography being used to deliver the payload: ‘Are Bengal Cats legal in Australia?,’” […]

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  • November 11, 2024

The ROI of Security Investments: How Cybersecurity Leaders Prove It

Cyber threats are intensifying, and cybersecurity has become critical to business operations. As security budgets grow, CEOs and boardrooms are demanding concrete evidence that cybersecurity initiatives deliver value beyond regulation compliance. Just like you wouldn’t buy a car without knowing it was first put through a crash test, security systems must also be validated to […]

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  • November 11, 2024

Security Flaws in Popular ML Toolkits Enable Server Hijacks, Privilege Escalation

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered nearly two dozen security flaws spanning 15 different machine learning (ML) related open-source projects. These comprise vulnerabilities discovered both on the server- and client-side, software supply chain security firm JFrog said in an analysis published last week. The server-side weaknesses “allow attackers to hijack important servers in the organization such as […]

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  • November 11, 2024

HPE Issues Critical Security Patches for Aruba Access Point Vulnerabilities

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Aruba Networking Access Point products, including two critical bugs that could result in unauthenticated command execution. The flaws affect Access Points running Instant AOS-8 and AOS-10 – AOS-10.4.x.x: 10.4.1.4 and below Instant AOS-8.12.x.x: 8.12.0.2 and below Instant AOS-8.10.x.x: 8.10.0.13 and below The […]

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  • November 11, 2024

Cybercriminals Use Excel Exploit to Spread Fileless Remcos RAT Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new phishing campaign that spreads a new fileless variant of known commercial malware called Remcos RAT. Remcos RAT “provides purchases with a wide range of advanced features to remotely control computers belonging to the buyer,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Xiaopeng Zhang said in an analysis published last week. “However, threat […]

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  • November 9, 2024

FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is urging police departments and governments worldwide to beef up security around their email systems, citing a recent increase in cybercriminal services that use hacked police email accounts to send unauthorized subpoenas and customer data requests to U.S.-based technology companies. In an alert (PDF) published this week, the FBI […]

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  • November 9, 2024

Palo Alto Advises Securing PAN-OS Interface Amid Potential RCE Threat Concerns

Palo Alto Networks on Friday issued an informational advisory urging customers to ensure that access to the PAN-OS management interface is secured because of a potential remote code execution vulnerability. “Palo Alto Networks is aware of a claim of a remote code execution vulnerability via the PAN-OS management interface,” the company said. “At this time, […]

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