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Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos

Miklos Daniel Brody, a cloud engineer, was sentenced to two years in prison and a restitution of $529,000 for wiping the code repositories of his former employer in retaliation for being fired by the company.  [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloud-engineer-gets-2-years-for-wiping-ex-employers-code-repos/
Ukraine's largest mobile carrier Kyivstar down following cyberattack

Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest telecommunications service provider serving over 25 million mobile and home internet subscribers, has suffered a cyberattack impacting mobile and data services. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ukraines-largest-mobile-carrier-kyivstar-down-following-cyberattack/
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Hackers are exploiting critical Apache Struts flaw using public PoC

Hackers are attempting to leverage a recently fixed critical vulnerability (CVE-2023-50164) in Apache Struts that leads to remote code execution, in attacks that rely on publicly available proof-of-concept exploit code. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-are-exploiting-critical-apache-struts-flaw-using-public-poc/
CISA: Russian hackers target TeamCity servers since September

CISA and partner cybersecurity agencies and intelligence services warned that the APT29 hacking group linked to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has been targeting unpatched TeamCity servers in widespread attacks since September 2023. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-russian-hackers-target-teamcity-servers-since-september/
Stealthy KV-botnet hijacks SOHO routers and VPN devices

The Chinese state-sponsored APT hacking group known as Volt Typhoon (Bronze Silhouette) has been linked to a sophisticated botnet named 'KV-botnet' since at least 2022 to attack SOHO routers in high-value targets. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/stealthy-kv-botnet-hijacks-soho-routers-and-vpn-devices/
Microsoft seizes domains used to sell fraudulent Outlook accounts

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit seized multiple domains used by a Vietnam-based cybercrime group (Storm-1152) that registered over 750 million fraudulent accounts and raked in millions of dollars by selling them online to other cybercriminals. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-seizes-domains-used-to-sell-fraudulent-outlook-accounts/
Protect your Active Directory from these Password-based Vulnerabilities

To safeguard against potential cyberattacks and outages, it is essential to be vigilant against common Active Directory attacks, Learn more from Specops Software about these attacks and how harden your defenses. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/protect-your-active-directory-from-these-password-based-vulnerabilities/
Ledger dApp supply chain attack steals $600K from crypto wallets

Ledger is warnings users not to use web3 dApps after a supply chain attack on the 'Ledger dApp Connect Kit' library was found pushing a JavaScript wallet drainer that stole $600,000 in crypto and NFTs. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ledger-dapp-supply-chain-attack-steals-600k-from-crypto-wallets/
U.S. nuclear research lab data breach impacts 45,000 people

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) confirmed that attackers stole the personal information of more than 45,000 individuals after breaching its cloud-based Oracle HCM HR management platform last month. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-nuclear-research-lab-data-breach-impacts-45-000-people/
Discord adds Security Key support for all users to enhance security

Discord has made security key multi-factor authentication (MFA) available for all accounts on the platform, bringing significant security and anti-phishing benefits to its 500+ million registered users. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/discord-adds-security-key-support-for-all-users-to-enhance-security/