Online Trackers Increasingly Switching to Invasive CNAME Cloaking Technique

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With browser makers steadily clamping down on third-party tracking, advertising technology companies are increasingly embracing a DNS technique to evade such defenses, thereby posing a threat to web security and …

Everything You Need to Know About Evolving Threat of Ransomware

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The cybersecurity world is constantly evolving to new forms of threats and vulnerabilities. But ransomware proves to be a different animal—most destructive, persistent, notoriously challenging to prevent, and is showing …

Critical RCE Flaws Affect VMware ESXi and vSphere Client — Patch Now

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VMware has addressed multiple critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi and vSphere Client virtual infrastructure management platform that may allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands and take …

Shadow Attacks Let Attackers Replace Content in Digitally Signed PDFs

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Researchers have demonstrated a novel class of attacks that could allow a bad actor to potentially circumvent existing countermeasures and break the integrity protection of digitally signed PDF documents. Called …

Hackers Exploit Accellion Zero-Days in Recent Data Theft and Extortion Attacks

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Cybersecurity researchers on Monday tied a string of attacks targeting Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) servers over the past two months to data theft and extortion campaign orchestrated by a cybercrime group …

Chinese Hackers Had Access to a U.S. Hacking Tool Years Before It Was Leaked Online

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On August 13, 2016, a hacking unit calling itself “The Shadow Brokers” announced that it had stolen malware tools and exploits used by the Equation Group, a sophisticated threat actor …

How to Fight Business Email Compromise (BEC) with Email Authentication?

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An ever-evolving and rampant form of cybercrime that targets emails as the potential medium to conduct fraud is known as Business Email Compromise. Targeting commercial, government as well as non-profit …

New ‘Silver Sparrow’ Malware Infected Nearly 30,000 Apple Macs

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Days after the first malware targeting Apple M1 chips was discovered in the wild, researchers have disclosed yet another previously undetected piece of malicious software that was found in about 30,000 Macs …