This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. The banking and financial sector is known for its dependence on third-party vendors that help provide customers with quality financial products and services. It is one of the most interconnected sectors, making it one of the most vulnerable to cyberattacks. And because third parties operate through […]
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For many years, attackers have used and abused various ways to get on our systems. From phishing to tricking us to click on websites, if an attacker can get their code on our systems they are no longer our systems. Attackers will even invest the time, energy, and expense to get their malicious drivers approved […]
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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.
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsSonicWall figures show overall attacks trending down
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsUnspecified number of customers impacted over 2.5 years
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsUK privacy regulator says vulnerable people may be at risk
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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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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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“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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