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  • June 26, 2024

Exploit Attempts Recorded Against New MOVEit Transfer Vulnerability – Patch ASAP!

A newly disclosed critical security flaw impacting Progress Software MOVEit Transfer is already seeing exploitation attempts in the wild shortly after details of the bug were publicly disclosed. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5806 (CVSS score: 9.1), concerns an authentication bypass that impacts the following versions – From 2023.0.0 before 2023.0.11 From 2023.1.0 before 2023.1.6, and […]

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  • June 26, 2024

The US Is Banning Kaspersky

This move has been coming for a long time. The Biden administration on Thursday said it’s banning the company from selling its products to new US-based customers starting on July 20, with the company only allowed to provide software updates to existing customers through September 29. The ban—­the first such action under authorities given to […]

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  • June 26, 2024

Chinese and N. Korean Hackers Target Global Infrastructure with Ransomware

Threat actors with suspected ties to China and North Korea have been linked to ransomware and data encryption attacks targeting government and critical infrastructure sectors across the world between 2021 and 2023. While one cluster of activity has been associated with the ChamelGang (aka CamoFei), the second cluster overlaps with activity previously attributed to Chinese […]

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  • June 26, 2024

Practical Guidance For Securing Your Software Supply Chain

The heightened regulatory and legal pressure on software-producing organizations to secure their supply chains and ensure the integrity of their software should come as no surprise. In the last several years, the software supply chain has become an increasingly attractive target for attackers who see opportunities to force-multiply their attacks by orders of magnitude. For […]

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  • June 26, 2024

Apple Patches AirPods Bluetooth Vulnerability That Could Allow Eavesdropping

Apple has released a firmware update for AirPods that could allow a malicious actor to gain access to the headphones in an unauthorized manner. Tracked as CVE-2024-27867, the authentication issue affects AirPods (2nd generation and later), AirPods Pro (all models), AirPods Max, Powerbeats Pro, and Beats Fit Pro. “When your headphones are seeking a connection […]

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  • June 26, 2024

New Credit Card Skimmer Targets WordPress, Magento, and OpenCart Sites

Multiple content management system (CMS) platforms like WordPress, Magento, and OpenCart have been targeted by a new credit card web skimmer called Caesar Cipher Skimmer. A web skimmer refers to malware that is injected into e-commerce sites with the goal of stealing financial and payment information. According to Sucuri, the latest campaign entails making malicious […]

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  • June 26, 2024

New Medusa Android Trojan Targets Banking Users Across 7 Countries

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated version of an Android banking trojan called Medusa that has been used to target users in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, the U.K., and the U.S. The new fraud campaigns, observed in May 2024 and active since July 2023, manifested through five different botnets operated by various affiliates, cybersecurity […]

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  • June 26, 2024

Over 110,000 Websites Affected by Hijacked Polyfill Supply Chain Attack

Google has taken steps to block ads for e-commerce sites that use the Polyfill.io service after a Chinese company acquired the domain and modified the JavaScript library (“polyfill.js”) to redirect users to malicious and scam sites. “Protecting our users is our top priority. We detected a security issue recently that may affect websites using certain […]

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Federal Reserve Under Siege: Data Breach Extortion Threatens Chaos

Federal Reserve Under Siege: Data Breach Extortion Threatens Chaos Cyber Gang Demands Payment or Promises to Unleash Financial Turmoil Brace yourselves, folks, this one’s a doozy! A notorious Russian-linked cyber gang, LockBit, has thrown down the gauntlet, claiming a daring breach of the U.S. Federal Reserve. They’re threatening to spill 33 terabytes of America’s financial […]

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