Ukraine Continues to Face Cyber Espionage Attacks from Russian Hackers

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Cybersecurity researchers on Monday said they uncovered evidence of attempted attacks by a Russia-linked hacking operation targeting a Ukrainian entity in July 2021. Broadcom-owned Symantec, in a new report published Monday, attributed the attacks to an actor tracked as Gamaredon …

Reasons Why Every Business is a Target of DDoS Attacks

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DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks are making headlines almost every day. 2021 saw a 434% upsurge in DDoS attacks, 5.5 times higher than 2020. Q3 2021 saw a 24% increase in the number of DDoS attacks in comparison to Q3 2020.  Advanced DDoS …

Researchers Uncover New Iranian Hacking Campaign Targeting Turkish Users

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Details have emerged about a previously undocumented malware campaign undertaken by the Iranian MuddyWater advanced persistent threat (APT) group targeting Turkish private organizations and governmental institutions. “This campaign utilizes malicious PDFs, XLS files and Windows executables to deploy malicious PowerShell-based …

New SureMDM Vulnerabilities Could Expose Companies to Supply Chain Attacks

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A number of security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in 42 Gears’ SureMDM device management solution that could be weaponized by attackers to perform a supply chain compromise against affected organizations. Cybersecurity firm Immersive Labs, in a technical write-up detailing the findings, said …

New Samba Bug Allows Remote Attackers to Execute Arbitrary Code as Root

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Samba has issued software updates to address multiple security vulnerabilities that, if successfully exploited, could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with the highest privileges on affected installations. Chief among them is CVE-2021-44142, which impacts all versions of Samba before 4.13.17 and concerns an out-of-bounds heap …

Behind The Buzzword: Four Ways to Assess Your Zero Trust Security Posture

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With just about everything delivered from the cloud these days, employees can now collaborate and access what they need from anywhere and on any device. While this newfound flexibility has changed the way we think about productivity, it has also …

Your Graphics Card Fingerprint Can Be Used to Track Your Activities Across the Web

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Researchers have demonstrated a new type of fingerprinting technique that exploits a machine’s graphics processing unit (GPU) as a means to persistently track users across the web. Dubbed DrawnApart, the method “identifies a device from the unique properties of its GPU …

German Court Rules Websites Embedding Google Fonts Violates GDPR

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A regional court in the German city of Munich has ordered a website operator to pay €100 in damages for transferring a user’s personal data — i.e., IP address — to Google via the search giant’s Fonts library without the …

Researchers Use Natural Silk Fibers to Generate Secure Keys for Strong Authentication

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A group of academics at South Korea’s Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) have utilized natural silk fibers from domesticated silkworms to build an environmentally friendly digital security system that they say is “practically unbreachable.” “The first natural physical …

Apple Pays $100,500 Bounty to Hacker Who Found Way to Hack MacBook Webcam

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Apple last year fixed a new set of macOS vulnerabilities that exposed Safari browser to attack, potentially allowing malicious actors to access users’ online accounts, microphone, and webcam. Security researcher Ryan Pickren, who discovered and reported the bugs to the …