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U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Warns of Actively Exploited Ivanti EPMM Vulnerability

By Newsroom — January 19th 2024 at 04:55
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a now-patched critical flaw impacting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and MobileIron Core to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating it's being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2023-35082 (CVSS score: 9.8), an authentication bypass
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Unveiling the Cyber Threats to Healthcare: Beyond the Myths

By The Hacker News — December 12th 2023 at 18:09
Let's begin with a thought-provoking question: among a credit card number, a social security number, and an Electronic Health Record (EHR), which commands the highest price on a dark web forum?  Surprisingly, it's the EHR, and the difference is stark: according to a study, EHRs can sell for up to $1,000 each, compared to a mere $5 for a credit card number and $1 for a social
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Three Ways Varonis Helps You Fight Insider Threats

By The Hacker News — November 15th 2023 at 10:39
What do basketball teams, government agencies, and car manufacturers have in common? Each one has been breached, having confidential, proprietary, or private information stolen and exposed by insiders. In each case, the motivations and methods varied, but the risk remained the same: insiders have access to too much data with too few controls. Insider threats continue to prove difficult for
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Emerging Attacker Exploit: Microsoft Cross-Tenant Synchronization

By The Hacker News — August 10th 2023 at 11:14
Attackers continue to target Microsoft identities to gain access to connected Microsoft applications and federated SaaS applications. Additionally, attackers continue to progress their attacks in these environments, not by exploiting vulnerabilities, but by abusing native Microsoft functionality to achieve their objective. The attacker group Nobelium, linked with the SolarWinds attacks, has been
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Alert: New Electromagnetic Attacks on Drones Could Let Attackers Take Control

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 28th 2023 at 15:05
Drones that don't have any known security weaknesses could be the target of electromagnetic fault injection (EMFI) attacks, potentially enabling a threat actor to achieve arbitrary code execution and compromise their functionality and safety. The research comes from IOActive, which found that it is "feasible to compromise the targeted device by injecting a specific EM glitch at the right time
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XWorm Malware Exploits Follina Vulnerability in New Wave of Attacks

By Ravie Lakshmanan — May 12th 2023 at 21:00
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an ongoing phishing campaign that makes use of a unique attack chain to deliver the XWorm malware on targeted systems. Securonix, which is tracking the activity cluster under the name MEME#4CHAN, said some of the attacks have primarily targeted manufacturing firms and healthcare clinics located in Germany. "The attack campaign has been leveraging rather
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Researchers Uncover Covert Attack Campaign Targeting Military Contractors

By Ravie Lakshmanan — September 29th 2022 at 12:00
A new covert attack campaign singled out multiple military and weapons contractor companies with spear-phishing emails to trigger a multi-stage infection process designed to deploy an unknown payload on compromised machines. The highly-targeted intrusions, dubbed STEEP#MAVERICK by Securonix, also targeted a strategic supplier to the F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. "The attack was carried out
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U.S. Seizes Cryptocurrency Worth $30 Million Stolen by North Korean Hackers

By Ravie Lakshmanan — September 9th 2022 at 11:36
More than $30 million worth of cryptocurrency plundered by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group from online video game Axie Infinity has been recovered, marking the first time digital assets stolen by the threat actor have been seized. "The seizures represent approximately 10% of the total funds stolen from Axie Infinity (accounting for price differences between time stolen and seized), and
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Hackers Hide Malware in Stunning Images Taken by James Webb Space Telescope

By Ravie Lakshmanan — August 31st 2022 at 08:52
A persistent Golang-based malware campaign dubbed GO#WEBBFUSCATOR has leveraged the deep field image taken from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as a lure to deploy malicious payloads on infected systems. The development, revealed by Securonix, points to the growing adoption of Go among threat actors, given the programming language's cross-platform support, effectively allowing the
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