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  • May 26, 2023

Barracuda Warns of Zero-Day Exploited to Breach Email Security Gateway Appliances

Email protection and network security services provider Barracuda is warning users about a zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited to breach the company’s Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances. The zero-day is being tracked as CVE-2023-2868 and has been described as a remote code injection vulnerability affecting versions 5.1.3.001 through 9.2.0.006. The California-headquartered firm 

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  • May 26, 2023

New COSMICENERGY Malware Exploits ICS Protocol to Sabotage Power Grids

A new strain of malicious software that’s engineered to penetrate and disrupt critical systems in industrial environments has been unearthed. Google-owned threat intelligence firm Mandiant dubbed the malware COSMICENERGY, adding it was uploaded to a public malware scanning utility in December 2021 by a submitter in Russia. There is no evidence that it has been put […]

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Why Are Some Countries Banning TikTok?

Waiting in the checkout line. Waiting to fall asleep. Waiting for your boring work call to finally end.  When you find yourself in these situations, do you usually have your phone in hand? And does it usually include scrolling through videos on TikTok? You’re far from alone! The app has 150 million users in the […]

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  • May 25, 2023

GUAC 0.1 Beta: Google’s Breakthrough Framework for Secure Software Supply Chains

Google on Wednesday announced the 0.1 Beta version of GUAC (short for Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition) for organizations to secure their software supply chains. To that end, the search giant is making available the open source framework as an API for developers to integrate their own tools and policy engines. GUAC aims to aggregate software security metadata from different sources

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  • May 25, 2023

Iranian Agrius Hackers Targeting Israeli Organizations with Moneybird Ransomware

The Iranian threat actor known as Agrius is leveraging a new ransomware strain called Moneybird in its attacks targeting Israeli organizations. Agrius, also known as Pink Sandstorm (formerly Americium), has a track record of staging destructive data-wiping attacks aimed at Israel under the guise of ransomware infections. Microsoft has attributed the threat actor to Iran’s Ministry of

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EY survey: Tech leaders to invest in AI, 5G, cybersecurity, big data, metaverse

Generative AI is of particular interest to leaders for the benefits of cost savings, efficiency and effectiveness. The post EY survey: Tech leaders to invest in AI, 5G, cybersecurity, big data, metaverse appeared first on TechRepublic.

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  • May 24, 2023

SuperMailer Abuse Bypasses Email Security for Super-Sized Credential Theft

Secure email gateways and end users alike are being fooled by a cyberattack campaign that’s enjoying skyrocketing volumes against businesses in every industry, globally.

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  • May 24, 2023

Google Adds Guardrails to Keep AI in Check

Companies are starting to address AI misuse. At Google I/O, for example, executives promised its AI has safety measures.

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  • May 24, 2023

Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan and lessons learned from the infamous 2016 Uber breach

Like most CSOs, Joe Sullivan was drawn to the role to help prevent cybercrimes. His role as CSO of Uber was something of a shift from his previous job prosecuting cybercriminals as an assistant US attorney, but closer to the tip of the cybersecurity spear. As a top-level professional in the business of defending against […]

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