US Sanctions Cryptocurrency Exchange SUEX for Aiding Ransomware Gangs

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The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Russian cryptocurrency exchange Suex for helping facilitate and launder transactions from at least eight ransomware variants as part of the government’s …

High-Severity RCE Flaw Disclosed in Several Netgear Router Models

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Networking equipment company Netgear has released patches to remediate a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability affecting multiple routers that could be exploited by remote attackers to take control of an …

Unpatched High-Severity Vulnerability Affects Apple macOS Computers

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Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details of an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in macOS Finder that could be abused by remote adversaries to trick users into running arbitrary commands on the …

Cring Ransomware Gang Exploits 11-Year-Old ColdFusion Bug

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Unidentified threat actors breached a server running an unpatched, 11-year-old version of Adobe’s ColdFusion 9 software in minutes to remotely take over control and deploy file-encrypting Cring ransomware on the …

New Capoae Malware Infiltrates WordPress Sites and Installs Backdoored Plugin

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A recently discovered wave of malware attacks has been spotted using a variety of tactics to enslave susceptible machines with easy-to-guess administrative credentials to co-opt them into a network with …

Cybersecurity Priorities in 2021: How Can CISOs Re-Analyze and Shift Focus?

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2020 was a year of relentless disruptions. The protective layer of secured enterprise networks and controlled IT environments of the physical premises did not exist. Over the past year, CISOs (Chief …

A New Wave of Malware Attack Targeting Organizations in South America

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A spam campaign delivering spear-phishing emails aimed at South American organizations has retooled its techniques to include a wide range of commodity remote access trojans (RATs) and geolocation filtering to …