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WooCommerce Bug Exploited in Targeted WordPress Attacks

Wordfence claims over 157,000 sites have been hit so far

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AWS Cloud Credential Stealing Campaign Spreads to Azure, Google Cloud

The TeamTNT threat actor appears to be setting the stage for broader cloud worm attacks, researchers say.

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Ways to Avoid Being Scammed

I heard about multiple scams this week end. How to say safe. Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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5 Major Takeaways From Microsoft’s July Patch Tuesday

July’s updates contained 100+ patches and security policy notes, leaving vulnerability management teams stressed and scrambling to…

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How AI-Augmented Threat Intelligence Solves Security Shortfalls

Researchers explore how overburdened cyber analysts can improve their threat intelligence jobs by using ChatGPT-like large language models…

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Microsoft ‘Logging Tax’ Hinders Incident Response, Experts Warn

A recent email compromise by Chinese APT group Storm-0558 highlights a lack of access to security logging by many Microsoft 365 license…

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Automatically Displaying the Reason A CloudFormation Stack Failed Using AWS CLI

ACM.251 Develop CloudFormation faster by getting information you need to resolve errors more quickly Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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JumpCloud Blames ‘Sophisticated Nation-State’ Actor for Security Breach

A little over a week after JumpCloud reset API keys of customers impacted by a security incident, the company said the intrusion was the…

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Startup Spotlight: Binarly Hardens Firmware Security

The company, one of four finalists in this year’s Black Hat USA Startup Spotlight competition, uses AI/ML to find firmware vulnerabilities.

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Cybercriminals Exploiting WooCommerce Payments Plugin Flaw to Hijack Websites

Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in the WooCommerce Payments WordPress plugin as part of a…

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Owner of BreachForums Pleads Guilty to Cybercrime and Child Pornography Charges

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the owner of the now-defunct BreachForums website, has pleaded guilty to charges related to his operation of the…

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UAE and South African Hospitals Fail on DMARC Implementation

Only a quarter of hospitals have implemented the strongest level of DMARC, with a third running any version of the email validation…

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Using Snapshots to Improve Data Security

How snapshots — point-in-time copies of data — can improve data security.

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Hiding in plain sight: The risks posed by OT systems and how to secure them

When we consider what security means for an organization, most think of needing to secure systems and devices like cloud computing…

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BreachForums Admin Pleads Guilty to Hacking Charges

The guilty plea also covered a separate count of possession of child pornography

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Ukraine’s CERT-UA Exposes Gamaredon’s Rapid Data Theft Methods

The group utilize malware like GAMMASTEEL to rapidly exfiltrate files within 30-50 minutes

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EU urged to prepare for quantum cyberattacks with coordinated action plan

The European Union (EU) must prepare for quantum cyberattacks and adopt a new coordinated action plan to ensure a harmonized transition to…

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Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records

Interesting forensics in connection with a serial killer arrest: Investigators went through phone records collected from both midtown…

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What C-Suite Leaders Need to Know About XDR

Considering adopting extended detection and response (XDR) in your cybersecurity defense program?

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Microsoft Bug Allowed Hackers to Breach Over Two Dozen Organizations via Forged Azure AD Tokens

Microsoft on Friday said a validation error in its source code allowed for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tokens to be forged by a…

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10 Tips to Keep Your Data Private Online

The moment you hop online, you lose a little privacy. How much depends on what you’re doing and what steps you’ve put in place to protect…

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Invalid request: Expected exactly one of [AliasTarget, all of [TTL, and ResourceRecords], or…

but found none in Change with [Action=DELETE, Name=x., Type=CNAME, SetIdentifier=null] Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

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WormGPT: New AI Tool Allows Cybercriminals to Launch Sophisticated Cyber Attacks

With generative artificial intelligence (AI) becoming all the rage these days, it’s perhaps not surprising that the technology has been…

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Scarleteel Threat Targets AWS Fargate, Launches DDoS and Cryptojacking Campaigns

The Scarleteel threat targets AWS Fargate environments for data theft and more malicious types of attacks such as cryptojacking and DDoS.

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