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  • October 6, 2023

Stealthy, Thieving Python Packages Slither Onto Windows Systems

A campaign that’s been active since April has already racked up nearly 75,000 downloads, stealing data and cryptocurrency in the process.

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  • October 6, 2023

Madagascar Drops Predator Spyware on Citizens in Watering Hole Attack

The Predator spyware was distributed by dropping malicious links inside typosquatted facsimiles of news websites.

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  • October 6, 2023

10 Routine Security Gaffes the Feds Are Begging You to Fix

Here are the most common misconfigurations plaguing large organizations, according to a new joint cybersecurity advisory.

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  • October 6, 2023

Cisco fixes serious flaws in emergency responder and other products

Cisco patched authentication, privilege escalation, and denial-of-service vulnerabilities this week in several of its products, including one that’s used for identifying the location of 9-1-1 emergency callers. The flaw in Cisco Emergency Responder is caused by the presence of default static credentials for the root account that were used during development but were never removed. […]

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  • October 6, 2023

Legions of Critical Infrastructure Devices Subject to Cyber Targeting

Nearly 100,000 ICS devices have been found open to the public Internet, potentially threatening physical safety globally. Here’s how to quantify the risk.

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  • October 6, 2023

Quash EDR/XDR Exploits With These Countermeasures

With tools and hacker groups constantly evading defenses, expanding cybersecurity beyond endpoint security becomes crucial.

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  • October 6, 2023

Qakbot malware’s creators ride again, despite FBI takedown

While the Qakbot banking Trojan was eradicated in August by a large-scale law enforcement operation, the people behind it are still active and pose a threat to users, researchers said today. According to a report from Cisco’s Talos threat intelligence group, its experts can say with “moderate confidence” that the creators and operators of Qakbot […]

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  • October 6, 2023

‘Operation Jacana’ Reveals DinodasRAT Custom Backdoor

The previously undocumented data exfiltration malware was part of a successful cyber-espionage campaign against the Guyanese government, likely by the Chinese.

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  • October 6, 2023

Troubleshooting the MFA in Lambda— Local Testing and Lambda Do Not Match

ACM.327 Resolved some issues, others could not due to misleading error messages and mismatched environments Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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