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πŸ“” Columbus Ransomware Attack Exposes Data of 500,000 Residents πŸ“”

The City of Columbus, Ohio, informed the Maine Attorney Generals Office that approximately 55 of its residents were affected by the breach.

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πŸ“” Cybercriminals Exploit DocuSign APIs to Send Fake Invoices πŸ“”

Cybercriminals are exploiting DocuSign APIs to send fake invoices, bypassing security filters and mimicking wellknown brands.

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πŸ“” Nigerian Handed 26-Year Sentence for Real Estate Phishing Scam πŸ“”

A US district court sentenced a Nigerian man for an elaborate maninthemiddle phishing campaign, which resulted in 12m in losses from realestate transactions.

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πŸ“” Google Researchers Claim First Vulnerability Found Using AI πŸ“”

The flaw, an exploitable stack buffer underflow in SQLite, was found by Googles Big Sleep team using a large language model LLM.

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πŸ“” US Says Russia Behind Fake Haitian Voters Video πŸ“”

US government agencies said the video, widely shared on social media, is part of Russias broader strategy of undermining the integrity of the Presidential Election.

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πŸ¦… ICS Vulnerability Intelligence Report: Key Insights and Recommendations πŸ¦…

Overview Cyble Research Intelligence Labs CRIL has investigated key ICS vulnerabilities this week, providing critical insights issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, focusing on multiple flaws in several ICS products. During this reporting period, CISA issued four security advisories targeting vulnerabilities across various Industrial Control Systems, including those from ICONICS, Mitsubishi Electric, VIMESA, iniNet Solutions, and Deep Sea Electronics. These advisories pinpoint ICS vulnerabilities that security teams should prioritize for immediate patching to mitigate potential risks. The recent vulnerability assessment has revealed a highseverity path traversal vulnerability in SpiderControl SCADA. The Deep Sea Electronics DSE855 has also been ...

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Okta Fixes Auth Bypass Bug After 3-Month Lull πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

The bug affected accounts with 52character user names, and had several preconditions that needed to be met in order to be exploited.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ OWASP Beefs Up GenAI Security Guidance Amid Growing Deepfakes πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

As businesses worry over deepfake scams and other AI attacks, organizations are adding guidance for cybersecurity teams on how to detect, and respond to, nextgeneration threats. That includes Exabeam, which was recently targeted by a deepfaked job candidate.

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🦿 Software Makers Encouraged to Stop Using C/C++ by 2026 🦿

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation assert that C, C, and other memoryunsafe languages contribute to potential security breaches.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ APT36 Refines Tools in Attacks on Indian Targets πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

The Pakistanbased advanced persistent threat actor has been carrying on a cyberespionage campaign targeting organizations on the subcontinent for more than a decade, and it's now using a new and improved "ElizaRAT" malware.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Iranian APT Group Targets IP Cameras, Extends Attacks Beyond Israel πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

The Iranlinked group Emennet Pasargad aims to undermine public confidence in Israeli and Western nations by using hackandleak campaigns and disrupting government services, including elections.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Malware Campaign Uses Ethereum Smart Contracts to Control npm Typosquat Packages πŸ–‹οΈ

An ongoing campaign is targeting npm developers with hundreds of typosquat versions of their legitimate counterparts in an attempt to trick them into running crossplatform malware. The attack is notable for utilizing Ethereum smart contracts for commandandcontrol C2 server address distribution, according to independent findings from Checkmarx, Phylum, and Socket published over the past few.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Canadian Suspect Arrested Over Snowflake Data Breach and Extortion Attacks πŸ–‹οΈ

Canadian law enforcement authorities have arrested an individual who is suspected to have conducted a series of hacks stemming from the breach of cloud data warehousing platform Snowflake earlier this year. The individual in question, Alexander "Connor" Moucka aka Judische and Waifu, was apprehended on October 30, 2024, on the basis of a provisional arrest warrant, following a request by the.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Google Warns of Actively Exploited CVE-2024-43093 Vulnerability in Android System πŸ–‹οΈ

Google has warned that a security flaw impacting its Android operating system has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE202443093, has been described as a privilege escalation flaw in the Android Framework component that could result in unauthorized access to "Androiddata," "Androidobb," and "Androidsandbox" directories and its subdirectories,.

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πŸ‘½ Hackers Strike at Heart of Italian Government πŸ‘½

In a scenario reminiscent of a modernday Italian Job, hackers have allegedly breached Italys national security, exposing confidential data of some of the countrys most prominent political figures. At the heart of the controversy is Nunzio Samuele Calamucci, a 44yearold IT consultant operating from a modest office near Milans iconic.

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πŸ“” Chinese Air Fryers May Be Spying on Consumers, Which? Warns πŸ“”

A Which? report outlines serious privacy concerns with smart device products including air fryers.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Synology Urges Patch for Critical Zero-Click RCE Flaw Affecting Millions of NAS Devices πŸ–‹οΈ

Taiwanese networkattached storage NAS appliance maker Synology has addressed a critical security flaw impacting DiskStation and BeePhotos that could lead to remote code execution. Tracked as CVE202410443 and dubbed RISKSTATION by Midnight Blue, the zeroday flaw was demonstrated at the Pwn2Own Ireland 2024 hacking contest by security researcher Rick de Jager. RISKSTATION is an ".

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πŸ“’ Five ways cyber criminals target healthcare and how to stop them πŸ“’

Medical institutions are among the top targets for threat actors, here five major threats facing the healthcare sector and what organizations can do to stay secure.

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πŸ“’ Google’s Big Sleep AI model just found a zero-day vulnerability in the wild β€” but don’t hold your breath for game-changing AI bug hunting tools any time soon πŸ“’

Google clarified it was the first undiscovered memory safety bug to be flagged by an AI agent, touting this as a significant step in using AI for vulnerability research.

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πŸ“’ Schneider Electric confirms breach after hacker claims to have 40GB of stolen data πŸ“’

A hacker claimed to have stolen 400,000 rows of user data from Schneider Electric and took to social media to taunt the French multinational.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Docusign API Abused in Widescale, Novel Invoice Attack πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Attackers are exploiting the "Envelopes create API" of the enormously popular documentsigning service to flood corporate inboxes with convincing phishing emails aimed at defrauding organizations. It's an unusual attack vector with a high success rate.

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