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📢 CISA breached a federal agency as part of its red team program — and nobody noticed for five months 📢

A red team assessment performed by CISA on an unnamed federal agency found a series of critical security weaknesses.

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🔗 Via "ITPro"

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🕵️‍♂️ Kaspersky Is an Unacceptable Risk Threatening the Nation's Cyber Defense 🕵️‍♂️

As geopolitical tensions rise, foreign software presents a grave supply chain risk and an ideal attack vector for nationstate adversaries.

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🔗 Via "Dark Reading"

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🕵️‍♂️ Chinese Forced-Labor Ring Sponsors Football Clubs, Hides Behind Stealth Tech 🕵️‍♂️

An illegal gambling empire fueled by modernday slavery is being propped up by highprofile sponsorships and defended with sophisticated antidetection software.

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🔗 Via "Dark Reading"

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🕵️‍♂️ Fallout From Faulty Friday CrowdStrike Update Persists 🕵️‍♂️

Historic IT outage expected to spur regulatory scrutiny, soulsearching over "monoculture" of IT infrastructure and cyberattack threats.

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🔗 Via "Dark Reading"

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🕵️‍♂️ Under-Resourced Maintainers Pose Risk to Africa's Open Source Push 🕵️‍♂️

Many nations see open source software as a great equalizer, giving the Global South the tools necessary for sustainable development. But recent supply chain attacks highlight the need for security.

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🔗 Via "Dark Reading"

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🦿 CrowdStrike Outage Disrupts Microsoft Systems Worldwide 🦿

Airports and law enforcement agencies were among the organizations hit by the Blue Screen of Death. CrowdStrike said the error has been fixed.

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🔗 Via "Tech Republic"

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🦿 Get a Lifetime Subscription of FastestVPN for just $40 🦿

In the market for a new VPN? The toprated FastestVPN has been reduced to just 39.99 for a lifetime subscription at TechRepublic Academy.

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🔗 Via "Tech Republic"

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🦿 Surfshark vs CyberGhost (2024): Which VPN Is Better? 🦿

Which VPN is better, Surfshark or CyberGhost? Compare these VPNs with our guide and find out which one is best for you.

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🔗 Via "Tech Republic"

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🛠 I2P 2.6.0 🛠

I2P is an anonymizing network, offering a simple layer that identitysensitive applications can use to securely communicate. All data is wrapped with several layers of encryption, and the network is both distributed and dynamic, with no trusted parties. This is the source code release version.

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🔗 Via "Packet Storm - Tools"

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🛠 Logwatch 7.11 🛠

Logwatch analyzes and reports on unix system logs. It is a customizable and pluggable log monitoring system which will go through the logs for a given period of time and make a customizable report. It should work right out of the package on most systems.

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🔗 Via "Packet Storm - Tools"

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🖋️ Experts Uncover Chinese Cybercrime Network Behind Gambling and Human Trafficking 🖋️

The relationship between various TDSs and DNS associated with Vigorish Viper and the final landing experience for the user A Chinese organized crime syndicate with links to money laundering and human trafficking across Southeast Asia has been using an advanced "technology suite" that runs the whole cybercrime supply chain spectrum to spearhead its operations. Infoblox is tracking the proprietor.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ PINEAPPLE and FLUXROOT Hacker Groups Abuse Google Cloud for Credential Phishing 🖋️

A Latin America LATAMbased financially motivated actor codenamed FLUXROOT has been observed leveraging Google Cloud serverless projects to orchestrate credential phishing activity, highlighting the abuse of the cloud computing model for malicious purposes. "Serverless architectures are attractive to developers and enterprises for their flexibility, cost effectiveness, and ease of use," Google.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ How to Set up an Automated SMS Analysis Service with AI in Tines 🖋️

The opportunities to use AI in workflow automation are many and varied, but one of the simplest ways to use AI to save time and enhance your organizations security posture is by building an automated SMS analysis service. Workflow automation platform Tines provides a good example of how to do it. The vendor recently released their first native AI features, and security teams have already.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ MSPs & MSSPs: How to Increase Engagement with Your Cybersecurity Clients Through vCISO Reporting 🖋️

As a vCISO, you are responsible for your client's cybersecurity strategy and risk governance. This incorporates multiple disciplines, from research to execution to reporting. Recently, we published a comprehensive playbook for vCISOs, Your First 100 Days as a vCISO 5 Steps to Success, which covers all the phases entailed in launching a successful vCISO engagement, along with recommended.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ SocGholish Malware Exploits BOINC Project for Covert Cyberattacks 🖋️

The JavaScript downloader malware known as SocGholish aka FakeUpdates is being used to deliver a remote access trojan called AsyncRAT as well as a legitimate opensource project called BOINC. BOINC, short for Berkeley Open Infrastructure Network Computing Client, is an opensource "volunteer computing" platform maintained by the University of California with an aim to carry out "largescale.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ New Linux Variant of Play Ransomware Targeting VMware ESXi Systems 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Linux variant of a ransomware strain known as Play aka Balloonfly and PlayCrypt that's designed to target VMware ESXi environments. "This development suggests that the group could be broadening its attacks across the Linux platform, leading to an expanded victim pool and more successful ransom negotiations," Trend Micro researchers said in a.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🚀 How adware exposed victims to kernel-level threats – Week in Security with Tony Anscombe 🚀

A purported ad blocker marketed as a security solution hides kernellevel malware that inadvertently exposes victims to even more dangerous threats.

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🔗 Via "ESET - WeLiveSecurity"

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📔 Play Ransomware Expands to Target VMWare ESXi Environments 📔

Trend Micro also revealed a connection between the Play ransomware group and the threat actor Prolific Puma.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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📔 Ransomware Groups Fragment Amid Rising Cybercrime Threats 📔

Europol also said that multilayered extortion tactics in ransomware are becoming more common.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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📔 Cybercriminals Exploit CrowdStrike Outage Chaos 📔

Cybercriminals have launched phishing campaigns purporting to support organizations impacted by the global IT outage, caused by a CrowdStrike Falcon issue.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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📔 Two Russians Convicted for Role in LockBit Attacks 📔

Two Russian nationals have pleaded guilty to charges relating to their participation in the LockBit ransomware gang.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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