Email Defenses Under Siege: Phishing Attacks Dramatically Improve
About 1 in 5 phishing email messages reach workers’ inboxes, as attackers get better at dodging Microsoft’s platform defenses and defenders run into processing limitations.
Cyber NewsHackers Exploiting Unpatched RCE Flaw in Zimbra Collaboration Suite
A severe remote code execution vulnerability in Zimbra’s enterprise collaboration software and email platform is being actively exploited, with no patch currently available to remediate the issue. The shortcoming, assigned CVE-2022-41352, carries a critical-severity rating of CVSS 9.8, providing a pathway for attackers to upload arbitrary files and carry out malicious actions on affected
Cyber NewsMicrosoft Issues Improved Mitigations for Unpatched Exchange Server Vulnerabilities
Microsoft on Friday disclosed it has made more improvements to the mitigation method offered as a means to prevent exploitation attempts against the newly disclosed unpatched security flaws in Exchange Server. To that end, the tech giant has revised the blocking rule in IIS Manager from “.*autodiscover.json.*Powershell.*” to “(?=.*autodiscover.json)(?=.*powershell).” The list of
Cyber NewsCredential Harvesting Is Retail Industry’s Top Threat
Why bother with new tactics and exploits when the old tricks are still effective?
Cyber News2022 State of the Threat: Ransomware is still hitting companies hard
SecureWorks found that business email compromise still generates huge revenues for cybercriminals, while cyberespionage activities tend not to change so much. The post 2022 State of the Threat: Ransomware is still hitting companies hard appeared first on TechRepublic.
Cyber NewsFriday Squid Blogging: Emotional Support Squid
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a video—”2 Hours Of Squid To Relax/Study/Work To“—with 2.4 million views. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.
Cyber NewsFortinet Warns of New Auth Bypass Flaw Affecting FortiGate and FortiProxy
Fortinet has privately warned its customers of a security flaw affecting FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies that could potentially allow an attacker to perform unauthorized actions on susceptible devices. Tracked as CVE-2022-40684, the high-severity flaw relates to an authentication bypass vulnerability that could permit an unauthenticated adversary to perform arbitrary operations on
Cyber NewsCybersecurity Will Account for Nearly One-Quarter of AI Software Market Through 2025
A boom in artificial intelligence-powered detection and remediation tools pushes security spending to the top of the AI market, according to Forrester.
Cyber NewsMeta Flags Malicious Android, iOS Apps Affecting 1M Facebook Users
Some 400 mobile apps have posed as legitimate software on Google Play and the Apple App Store over the past year, and were designed to steal Facebook user credentials.
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