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CISA emergency directive: Mitigate Ivanti zero-days immediately

CISA issued this year's first emergency directive ordering Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to immediately mitigate two Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure zero-day flaws in response to widespread and active exploitation by multiple threat actors. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-emergency-directive-mitigate-ivanti-zero-days-immediately/
BreachForums hacking forum admin sentenced to 20 years supervised release

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick was sentenced to 20 years of supervised release today in the Eastern District of Virginia for operating the notorious BreachForums hacking forum, known for the sale and leaking of personal data for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/breachforums-hacking-forum-admin-sentenced-to-20-years-supervised-release/
Meta won't remove fake Instagram profiles that are clearly catfishing

Meta seems to be falling short of effectively tackling fake Instagram profiles even when there are sufficient signs to indicate that a profile is misusing someone else's photos and identity. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/meta-wont-remove-fake-instagram-profiles-that-are-clearly-catfishing/
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Researchers link 3AM ransomware to Conti, Royal cybercrime gangs

Security researchers analyzing the activity of the recently emerged 3AM ransomware operation uncovered close connections with infamous groups, such as the Conti syndicate and the Royal ransomware gang. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-link-3am-ransomware-to-conti-royal-cybercrime-gangs/
Court charges dev with hacking after cybersecurity issue disclosure

A German court has charged a programmer investigating an IT problem with hacking and fined them €3,000 ($3,265) for what it deemed was unauthorized access to external computer systems and spying on data. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/court-charges-dev-with-hacking-after-cybersecurity-issue-disclosure/
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Tietoevry ransomware attack causes outages for Swedish firms, cities

Finnish IT services and enterprise cloud hosting provider Tietoevry has suffered a ransomware attack impacting cloud hosting customers in one of its data centers in Sweden, with the attack reportedly conducted by the Akira ransomware gang. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tietoevry-ransomware-attack-causes-outages-for-swedish-firms-cities/
Ivanti: VPN appliances vulnerable if pushing configs after mitigation

Ivanti warned admins to stop pushing new device configurations to appliances after applying mitigations because this will leave them vulnerable to ongoing attacks exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ivanti-vpn-appliances-vulnerable-if-pushing-configs-after-mitigation/
Malicious web redirect scripts stealth up to hide on hacked sites

Security researchers looking at more than 10,000 scripts used by the Parrot traffic direction system (TDS) noticed an evolution marked by optimizations that make malicious code stealthier against security mechanisms. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-web-redirect-scripts-stealth-up-to-hide-on-hacked-sites/
SEC confirms X account was hacked in SIM swapping attack

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission confirmed today that its X account was hacked through a SIM-swapping attack on the cell phone number associated with the account. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sec-confirms-x-account-was-hacked-in-sim-swapping-attack/
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Australia sanctions REvil hacker behind Medibank data breach

The Australian government has announced sanctions for Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov, a Russian national considered responsible for the 2022 Medibank hack and a member of the REvil ransomware group. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/australia-sanctions-revil-hacker-behind-medibank-data-breach/
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