Hackers Targeting Companies Involved in Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution

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A global spear-phishing campaign has been targeting organizations associated with the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines since September 2020, according to new research. Attributing the operation to a nation-state actor, IBM Security …

Several Unpatched Popular Android Apps Put Millions of Users at Risk of Hacking

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A number of high-profile Android apps are still using an unpatched version of Google’s widely-used app update library, potentially putting the personal data of hundreds of millions of smartphone users …

Hackers-For-Hire Group Develops New ‘PowerPepper’ In-Memory Malware

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Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed details of a previously undiscovered in-memory Windows backdoor developed by a hacker-for-hire operation that can execute remotely malicious code and steal sensitive information from its …

Multiple Botnets Exploiting Critical Oracle WebLogic Bug — PATCH NOW

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Multiple botnets are targeting thousands of publicly exposed and still unpatched Oracle WebLogic servers to deploy crypto miners and steal sensitive information from infected systems. The attacks are taking aim …

Experts Uncover ‘Crutch’ Russian Malware Used in APT Attacks for 5 Years

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Cybersecurity researchers today took the wraps off a previously undocumented backdoor and document stealer that has been deployed against specific targets from 2015 to early 2020. Codenamed “Crutch” by ESET …

CISO with a small security team? Learn from your peers’ experience with this free e-book

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CISOs with small security teams hold an intensive juggling act. They’re responsible for sustaining the company’s security resilience, ensuring compliance is adhered to and implementing privacy controls. In between these …