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Year: 2024

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  • July 30, 2024

OneDrive Phishing Scam Tricks Users into Running Malicious PowerShell Script

Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a new phishing campaign that targets Microsoft OneDrive users with the aim of executing a malicious PowerShell script. “This campaign heavily relies on social engineering tactics to deceive users into executing a PowerShell script, thereby compromising their systems,” Trellix security researcher Rafael Pena said in a Monday analysis. The cybersecurity […]

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  • July 30, 2024

VMware ESXi Flaw Exploited by Ransomware Groups for Admin Access

A recently patched security flaw impacting VMware ESXi hypervisors has been actively exploited by “several” ransomware groups to gain elevated permissions and deploy file-encrypting malware. The attacks involve the exploitation of CVE-2024-37085 (CVSS score: 6.8), an Active Directory integration authentication bypass that allows an attacker to obtain administrative access to the host. “A malicious actor […]

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The CrowdStrike Meltdown Has Rocked Fortune 500s to the Tune of $5.4 Billion

The CrowdStrike Meltdown Has Rocked Fortune 500s to the Tune of $5.4 Billion Strategic Takeaways for IT & Cybersecurity Leaders In an unprecedented blow to the corporate world, the recent CrowdStrike outage we’ve been covering for you has sent shockwaves through Fortune 500 companies, causing financial losses estimated at $5.4 billion, as revealed by cloud […]

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  • July 29, 2024

Hacking gang leaks documents stolen from Pentagon IT provider

Graham CLULEY July 29, 2024 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial Hackers have released internal documents stolen from one of America’s largest IT services providers, which counts various US government agencies, including the Department of Defense, amongst its customers. Bloomberg reports that the leaked data, which belonged to Virginia-based […]

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  • July 29, 2024

Critical Flaw in Acronis Cyber Infrastructure Exploited in the Wild

Cybersecurity company Acronis is warning that a now-patched critical security flaw impacting its Cyber Infrastructure (ACI) product has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-45249 (CVSS score: 9.8), concerns a case of remote code execution that stems from the use of default passwords. The flaw impacts the following versions of Acronis Cyber […]

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  • July 29, 2024

Proofpoint Email Routing Flaw Exploited to Send Millions of Spoofed Phishing Emails

An unknown threat actor has been linked to a massive scam campaign that exploited an email routing misconfiguration in email security vendor Proofpoint’s defenses to send millions of messages spoofing various popular companies like Best Buy, IBM, Nike, and Walt Disney, among others. “These emails echoed from official Proofpoint email relays with authenticated SPF and […]

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  • July 29, 2024

New Research in Detecting AI-Generated Videos

The latest in what will be a continuing arms race between creating and detecting videos: The new tool the research project is unleashing on deepfakes, called “MISLnet”, evolved from years of data derived from detecting fake images and video with tools that spot changes made to digital video or images. These may include the addition […]

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  • July 29, 2024

How Searchable Encryption Changes the Data Security Game

Searchable Encryption has long been a mystery. An oxymoron. An unattainable dream of cybersecurity professionals everywhere. Organizations know they must encrypt their most valuable, sensitive data to prevent data theft and breaches. They also understand that organizational data exists to be used. To be searched, viewed, and modified to keep businesses running. Unfortunately, our Network […]

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  • July 29, 2024

‘Stargazer Goblin’ Creates 3,000 Fake GitHub Accounts for Malware Spread

A threat actor known as Stargazer Goblin has set up a network of inauthentic GitHub accounts to fuel a Distribution-as-a-Service (DaaS) that propagates a variety of information-stealing malware and netting them $100,000 in illicit profits over the past year. The network, which comprises over 3,000 accounts on the cloud-based code hosting platform, spans thousands of […]

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