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πŸ–‹οΈ Microsoft Patches Zero-Day Flaw Exploited by North Korea’s Lazarus Group πŸ–‹οΈ

A newly patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows was exploited as a zeroday by Lazarus Group, a prolific statesponsored actor affiliated with North Korea. The security vulnerability, tracked as CVE202438193 CVSS score 7.8, has been described as a privilege escalation bug in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver AFD.sys for WinSock. "An attacker who successfully exploited this.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Researchers Uncover New Infrastructure Tied to FIN7 Cybercrime Group πŸ–‹οΈ

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered new infrastructure linked to a financially motivated threat actor known as FIN7. The two clusters of potential FIN7 activity "indicate communications inbound to FIN7 infrastructure from IP addresses assigned to Post Ltd Russia and SmartApe Estonia, respectively," Team Cymru said in a report published this week as part of a joint investigation with.

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πŸ“” NCSC Opens Cyber Resilience Audit Scheme to Applicants πŸ“”

The UKs National Cyber Security Centre wants prospective auditors to check compliance with its Cyber Assessment Framework.

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πŸ“” Unicoin Staff Locked Out of G-Suite in Mystery Attack πŸ“”

Employees at crypto firm Unicoin couldnt access Google services for four days during a recent breach.

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πŸ“’ Cyber insurance claims are declining as firms take ransomware recovery into their own hands πŸ“’

Organizations are stepping up their backup capabilities to support recover, rather than being forced to meet the demands of ransomware groups.

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πŸ–‹οΈ How to Automate the Hardest Parts of Employee Offboarding πŸ–‹οΈ

According to recent research on employee offboarding, 70 of IT professionals say theyve experienced the negative effects of incomplete IT offboarding, whether in the form of a security incident tied to an account that wasn't deprovisioned, a surprise bill for resources that arent in use anymore, or a missed handoff of a critical resource or account. This is despite an average of five.

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πŸ“” Ransomware Resilience Drives Down Cyber Insurance Claims πŸ“”

Cyber insurance claims in the UK have fallen by over a third between 2022 and 2024 as businesses refuse ransom payments.

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πŸ›  Falco 0.38.2 πŸ› 

Sysdig Falco is a behavioral activity monitoring agent that is open source and comes with native support for containers. Falco lets you define highly granular rules to check for activities involving file and network activity, process execution, IPC, and much more, using a flexible syntax. Falco will notify you when these rules are violated. You can think about Falco as a mix between snort, ossec and strace.

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β™ŸοΈ National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords β™ŸοΈ

New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data NPD, a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans' Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that another NPD data broker which shares access to the same consumer records inadvertently published the passwords to its backend database in a file that was freely available for download from its homepage until today.

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πŸ–‹οΈ New UULoader Malware Distributes Gh0st RAT and Mimikatz in East Asia πŸ–‹οΈ

A new type of malware called UULoader is being used by threat actors to deliver nextstage payloads like Gh0st RAT and Mimikatz. The Cyberint Research Team, which discovered the malware, said it's distributed in the form of malicious installers for legitimate applications targeting Korean and Chinese speakers. There is evidence pointing to UULoader being the work of a Chinese speaker due to the.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Cybercriminals Exploit Popular Software Searches to Spread FakeBat Malware πŸ–‹οΈ

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a surge in malware infections stemming from malvertising campaigns distributing a loader called FakeBat. "These attacks are opportunistic in nature, targeting users seeking popular business software," the Mandiant Managed Defense team said in a technical report. "The infection utilizes a trojanized MSIX installer, which executes a PowerShell script to.

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πŸ“” FBI and CISA Assure Public on Election Ransomware Security πŸ“”

The FBI and CISA said ransomware on local networks may cause delays but won't impact voting system integrity.

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πŸ“” New Tool Xeon Sender Enables Large-Scale SMS Spam Attacks πŸ“”

Xeon Sender features SMS spam via APIs, NexmoTwilio credentials validation and phone number generation.

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πŸ“” Microsoft Apps for macOS Exposed to Library Injection Attacks πŸ“”

Cisco Talos researchers found a flaw in eight Microsoft apps for macOS that could enable library injection attacks, putting sensitive data at risk.

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🦿 SOCI Act 2024: Thales Report Reveals Critical Infrastructure Breaches in Australia 🦿

Thales' 2024 Data Threat Report reveals key insights for Australian critical infrastructure under the SOCI Act 2024. Our exclusive interview with Erick Reyes reveals the security impacts.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Hackers Exploit PHP Vulnerability to Deploy Stealthy Msupedge Backdoor πŸ–‹οΈ

A previously undocumented backdoor named Msupedge has been put to use against a cyber attack targeting an unnamed university in Taiwan. "The most notable feature of this backdoor is that it communicates with a commandandcontrol CC server via DNS traffic," the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The origins of the backdoor are.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Anatomy of an Attack πŸ–‹οΈ

In today's rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape, organizations face increasingly sophisticated attacks targeting their applications. Understanding these threats and the technologies designed to combat them is crucial. This article delves into the mechanics of a common application attack, using the infamous Log4Shell vulnerability as an example, and demonstrates how Application Detection and.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Researchers Uncover TLS Bootstrap Attack on Azure Kubernetes Clusters πŸ–‹οΈ

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security flaw impacting Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Services that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to escalate their privileges and access credentials for services used by the cluster. "An attacker with command execution in a Pod running within an affected Azure Kubernetes Services cluster could download the configuration used to.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Iranian Cyber Group TA453 Targets Jewish Leader with New AnvilEcho Malware πŸ–‹οΈ

Iranian statesponsored threat actors have been observed orchestrating spearphishing campaigns targeting a prominent Jewish figure starting in late July 2024 with the goal of delivering a new intelligencegathering tool called AnvilEcho. Enterprise security company Proofpoint is tracking the activity under the name TA453, which overlaps with activity tracked by the broader cybersecurity.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Blind Eagle Hackers Exploit Spear-Phishing to Deploy RATs in Latin America πŸ–‹οΈ

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a threat actor known as Blind Eagle that has persistently targeted entities and individuals in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Panama, and other Latin American nations. Targets of these attacks span several sectors, including governmental institutions, financial companies, energy and oil and gas companies. "Blind Eagle has demonstrated adaptability in.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Thousands of Oracle NetSuite Sites at Risk of Exposing Customer Information πŸ–‹οΈ

Cybersecurity researchers are warning about the discovery of thousands of externallyfacing Oracle NetSuite ecommerce sites that have been found susceptible to leaking sensitive customer information. "A potential issue in NetSuite's SuiteCommerce platform could allow attackers to access sensitive data due to misconfigured access controls on custom record types CRTs," AppOmni's Aaron Costello.

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