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  • December 5, 2022

Russian Courts Targeted by New CryWiper Data Wiper Malware Posing as Ransomware

A new data wiper malware called CryWiper has been found targeting Russian government agencies, including mayor’s offices and courts. “Although it disguises itself as a ransomware and extorts money from the victim for ‘decrypting’ data, [it] does not actually encrypt, but purposefully destroys data in the affected system,” Kaspersky researchers Fedor Sinitsyn and Janis Zinchenko said in a

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Rolling Up Our Sleeves: Employee Volunteers Empowered to Give Back

For these Cisconians, hands-on is the way to go when it comes to giving back. Using Cisco’s Time2Give benefit that provides 10 paid days to volunteer each year, team members rolled up their sleeves to build homes, cuddle and care for animals, distribute food and more. If you also value giving back, check out our […]

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Microsoft: Beware Russian Winter Cyber-Offensive

Ukraine’s allies may be in the firing line for destructive attacks

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  • December 5, 2022

When blaming the user for a security breach is unfair – or just wrong

In his career in IT security leadership, Aaron de Montmorency has seen a lot — an employee phished on their first day by someone impersonating the CEO, an HR department head asked to change the company’s direct deposit information by a bogus CFO, not to mention multichannel criminal engagement with threat actors attacking from social […]

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Digital Giant ABB to Pay $315m in Bribery Case

Firm pleads guilty in major South Africa conspiracy

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  • December 5, 2022

North Korean Hackers Spread AppleJeus Malware Disguised as Cryptocurrency Apps

The Lazarus Group threat actor has been observed leveraging fake cryptocurrency apps as a lure to deliver a previously undocumented version of the AppleJeus malware, according to new findings from Volexity. “This activity notably involves a campaign likely targeting cryptocurrency users and organizations with a variant of the AppleJeus malware by way of malicious Microsoft […]

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  • December 5, 2022

SiriusXM Vulnerability Lets Hackers Remotely Unlock and Start Connected Cars

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a security vulnerability that exposes cars from Honda, Nissan, Infiniti, and Acura to remote attacks through a connected vehicle service provided by SiriusXM. The issue could be exploited to unlock, start, locate, and honk any car in an unauthorized manner just by knowing the vehicle’s vehicle identification number (VIN), researcher Sam […]

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French Hospital Halts Operations After Cyber-Attack

André-Mignot hospital shuts down computer systems

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  • December 5, 2022

Critical Ping Vulnerability Allows Remote Attackers to Take Over FreeBSD Systems

The maintainers of the FreeBSD operating system have released updates to remediate a security vulnerability impacting the ping module that could be potentially exploited to crash the program or trigger remote code execution. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2022-23093, impacts all supported versions of FreeBSD and concerns a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the ping service. “

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