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  • April 9, 2023

Iran-Based Hackers Caught Carrying Out Destructive Attacks Under Ransomware Guise

The Iranian nation-state group known as MuddyWater has been observed carrying out destructive attacks on hybrid environments under the guise of a ransomware operation. That’s according to new findings from the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team, which discovered the threat actor targeting both on-premises and cloud infrastructures in partnership with another emerging activity cluster dubbed 

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Taiwanese PC Company MSI Falls Victim to Ransomware Attack

Taiwanese PC company MSI (short for Micro-Star International) officially confirmed it was the victim of a cyber attack on its systems. The company said it “promptly” initiated incident response and recovery measures after detecting “network anomalies.” It also said it alerted law enforcement agencies of the matter. That said, MSI did not disclose any specifics […]

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  • April 9, 2023

Popular server-side JavaScript security sandbox “vm2” patches remote execution hole

The security error was in the error handling system that was supposed to catch potential security errors…

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Food Poisoning

University of Connecticut basketball player Jordan Hawkins claims to have suffered food poisoning from calamari the night before his NCAA finals game. The restaurant disagrees: On Sunday, a Mastro’s employee politely cast doubt on the idea that the restaurant might have caused the illness, citing its intense safety protocols. The staffer, who spoke on condition […]

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DDoS attacks rise as pro-Russia groups attack Finland, Israel

Two Russia-associated groups hit Israel and Finland with DDoS attacks, this week. Cybersecurity experts say the actions represent a marked increase in exploits and a harbinger of cyberattacks to come. The post DDoS attacks rise as pro-Russia groups attack Finland, Israel appeared first on TechRepublic.

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  • April 7, 2023

Fight AI With AI

By developing new tools to defend against adversarial AI, companies can help ensure that artificial intelligence is developed and used in a responsible and safe manner.

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  • April 7, 2023

Testing DNS records for errors

Validating DKIM, DMARC and SPF records with external sites Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • April 7, 2023

CISA Warns of Critical ICS Flaws in Hitachi, mySCADA, ICL, and Nexx Products

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published eight Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories warning of critical flaws affecting products from Hitachi Energy, mySCADA Technologies, Industrial Control Links, and Nexx. Topping the list is CVE-2022-3682 (CVSS score: 9.9), impacting Hitachi Energy’s MicroSCADA System Data Manager SDM600 that could allow an

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  • April 7, 2023

Are Source Code Leaks the New Threat Software vendors Should Care About?

Less than a month ago, Twitter indirectly acknowledged that some of its source code had been leaked on the code-sharing platform GitHub by sending a copyright infringement notice to take down the incriminated repository. The latter is now inaccessible, but according to the media, it was accessible to the public for several months. A user […]

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