Researchers Warn of 4 Emerging Ransomware Groups That Can Cause Havoc

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Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday took the wraps off four up-and-coming ransomware groups that could pose a serious threat to enterprises and critical infrastructure, as the ripple effect of a recent spurt in ransomware incidents show that attackers are growing more …

38 Million Records Exposed from Microsoft Power Apps of Dozens of Organisations

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More than 38 million records from 47 different entities that rely on Microsoft’s Power Apps portals platform were inadvertently left exposed online, bringing into sharp focus a “new vector of data exposure.” “The types of data varied between portals, including …

Navigating Vendor Risk Management as IT Professionals

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One of the great resources available to businesses today is the large ecosystem of value-added services and solutions. Especially in technology solutions, there is no end to the services of which organizations can avail themselves. In addition, if a business …

Researchers Detail Modus Operandi of ShinyHunters Cyber Crime Group

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ShinyHunters, a notorious cybercriminal underground group that’s been on a data breach spree since last year, has been observed searching companies’ GitHub repository source code for vulnerabilities that can be abused to stage larger scale attacks, an analysis of the …

Top 15 Vulnerabilities Attackers Exploited Millions of Times to Hack Linux Systems

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Close to 14 million Linux-based systems are directly exposed to the Internet, making them a lucrative target for an array of real-world attacks that could result in the deployment of malicious web shells, coin miners, ransomware, and other trojans. That’s …

WARNING: Microsoft Exchange Under Attack With ProxyShell Flaws

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning of active exploitation attempts that leverage the latest line of “ProxyShell” Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities that were patched earlier this May, including deploying LockFile ransomware on compromised systems. Tracked as CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-34523, …

ShadowPad Malware is Becoming a Favorite Choice of Chinese Espionage Groups

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ShadowPad, an infamous Windows backdoor that allows attackers to download further malicious modules or steal data, has been put to use by five different Chinese threat clusters since 2017. “The adoption of ShadowPad significantly reduces the costs of development and …

Cloudflare mitigated one of the largest DDoS attack involving 17.2 million rps

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Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack recorded to date. The attack, launched via a Mirai botnet, is said to have targeted an unnamed …

Cybercrime Group Asking Insiders for Help in Planting Ransomware

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A Nigerian threat actor has been observed attempting to recruit employees by offering them to pay $1 million in bitcoins to deploy Black Kingdom ransomware on companies’ networks as part of an insider threat scheme. “The sender tells the employee …

Mozi IoT Botnet Now Also Targets Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE Network Gateways

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Mozi, a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known to target IoT devices, has gained new capabilities that allow it to achieve persistence on network gateways manufactured by Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE, according to new findings. “Network gateways are a particularly juicy target …