Spanish Police Arrest SIM Swappers Who Stole Money from Victims Bank Accounts

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Spain’s National Police Agency, the Policía Nacional, said last week it dismantled an unnamed cybercriminal organization and arrested eight individuals in connection with a series of SIM swapping attacks that were carried out with the goal of financial fraud. The …

Critical Security Flaws Reported in Moxa MXview Network Management Software

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Technical details have been disclosed regarding a number of security vulnerabilities affecting Moxa’s MXview web-based network management system, some of which could be chained by an unauthenticated adversary to achieve remote code execution on unpatched servers. The five security weaknesses …

Critical Magento 0-Day Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation — Patch Released

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Adobe on Sunday rolled out patches to contain a critical security vulnerability impacting its Commerce and Magento Open Source products that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-24086, the shortcoming has a CVSS score of 9.8 …

Hackers Planted Fake Digital Evidence on Devices of Indian Activists and Lawyers

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A previously unknown hacking group has been linked to targeted attacks against human rights activists, human rights defenders, academics, and lawyers across India in an attempt to plant “incriminating digital evidence.” Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne attributed the intrusions to a group …

France Rules That Using Google Analytics Violates GDPR Data Protection Law

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French data protection regulators on Thursday found the use of Google Analytics a breach of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws in the country, almost a month after a similar decision was reached in Austria. To that end, the …

Apple Releases iOS, iPadOS, macOS Updates to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaw

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Apple on Thursday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari to address a new WebKit flaw that it said may have been actively exploited in the wild, making it the company’s third zero-day patch since the start of the year. Tracked as …

FritzFrog P2P Botnet Attacking Healthcare, Education and Government Sectors

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A peer-to-peer Golang botnet has resurfaced after more than a year to compromise servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors within a span of a month, infecting a total of 1,500 hosts. Dubbed FritzFrog, “the decentralized …

COVID Does Not Spread to Computers

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“…well, of course!” is what you might think. It’s a biological threat, so how could it affect digital assets? But hang on. Among other effects, this pandemic has brought about a massive shift in several technological areas. Not only did …

CISA, FBI, NSA Issue Advisory on Severe Increase in Ransomware Attacks

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Image Source: TechPrivacy Cybersecurity authorities from Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. have published a joint advisory warning of an increase in sophisticated, high-impact ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure organizations across the world in 2021. The incidents singled out a …

Russia Cracks Down on 4 Dark Web Marketplaces for Stolen Credit Cards

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A special law enforcement operation undertaken by Russia has led to the seizure and shutdown of four online bazaars that specialized in the theft and sales of stolen credit cards, as the government continues to take active measures against harboring …