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Google Report: Despite Surge in Zero-Day Attacks, Exploit Mitigations Are Working

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Google Report: Despite Surge in Zero-Day Attacks, Exploit Mitigations Are Working 2024-03-27 at 17:01 By Ryan Naraine Despite a surge in zero-day attacks, data shows that security investments into OS and software exploit mitigations are forcing attackers to find new attack surfaces and bug patterns. The post Google Report: Despite Surge in Zero-Day Attacks, Exploit […]

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APT29 hit German political parties with bogus invites and malware

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APT29 hit German political parties with bogus invites and malware 2024-03-25 at 11:46 By Zeljka Zorz APT29 (aka Cozy Bear, aka Midnight Blizzard) has been spotted targeting German political parties for the first time, Mandiant researchers have shared. Phishing leading to malware The attack started in late February 2024, with phishing emails containing bogus invitations

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Russian APT29 Hackers Caught Targeting German Political Parties

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Russian APT29 Hackers Caught Targeting German Political Parties 2024-03-22 at 18:47 By Ryan Naraine Russia’s APT29 hacking group is expanding targets to political parties in Germany using a new backdoor variant tracked as Wineloader. The post Russian APT29 Hackers Caught Targeting German Political Parties appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek

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Photos: BSidesZagreb 2024

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Photos: BSidesZagreb 2024 2024-03-04 at 05:46 By Mirko Zorz BSidesZagreb is a complimentary, non-profit conference driven by community participation, designed for information security professionals and enthusiasts to gather, exchange ideas, and collaborate. Help Net Security sponsored the 2024 edition that took place on March 1, and here are photos from the event. Bojan Ždrnja, CTO

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State-sponsored hackers know enterprise VPN appliances inside out

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State-sponsored hackers know enterprise VPN appliances inside out 2024-02-28 at 14:19 By Zeljka Zorz Suspected Chinese state-sponsored hackers who have been leveraging Ivanti Connect Secure VPN flaws to breach a variety of organizations have demonstrated “a nuanced understanding of the appliance”, according to Mandiant incident responders and threat hunters. They were able to perform a

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ScreenConnect flaws exploited to deliver all kinds of malware (CVE-2024-1709, CVE-2024-1708)

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ScreenConnect flaws exploited to deliver all kinds of malware (CVE-2024-1709, CVE-2024-1708) 2024-02-26 at 13:36 By Zeljka Zorz The recently patched vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-1709, CVE-2024-1708) in ConnectWise ScreenConnect software are being exploited by numerous attackers to deliver a variety of malicious payloads. About ConnectWise ScreenConnect ConnectWise ScreenConnect is a remote desktop solution consisting of server and client

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Threat actor used Vimeo, Ars Technica to serve second-stage malware

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Threat actor used Vimeo, Ars Technica to serve second-stage malware 2024-02-01 at 12:31 By Zeljka Zorz A financially motivated threat actor tracked as UNC4990 is using booby-trapped USB storage devices and malicious payloads hosted on popular websites such as Ars Technica, Vimeo, GitHub and GitLab to surreptitiously deliver malware. Another interesting detail about UNC4990 it’s

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1,700 Ivanti VPN devices compromised. Are yours among them?

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1,700 Ivanti VPN devices compromised. Are yours among them? 2024-01-16 at 17:16 By Zeljka Zorz Over 1,700 Ivanti Connect Secure VPN devices worldwide have been compromised by attackers exploiting two zero-days with no patches currently available. “Additional threat actors beyond UTA0178 appear to now have access to the exploit and are actively trying to exploit

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Mandiant Details How Its X Account Was Hacked

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Mandiant Details How Its X Account Was Hacked 2024-01-11 at 14:32 By Eduard Kovacs Mandiant’s X account was hacked as a result of a brute force attack as part of a cryptocurrency scheme that earned at least $900k. The post Mandiant Details How Its X Account Was Hacked appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is

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10 corporate cybersecurity blogs worth your time

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10 corporate cybersecurity blogs worth your time 14/11/2023 at 09:02 By Help Net Security In this article, we’ve curated a list of insightful corporate cybersecurity blogs that provide analysis and actionable advice to help you keep your company’s digital assets secure. This list is not meant to be exhaustive since thousands of companies have infosec

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Sandworm hackers incapacitated Ukrainian power grid amid missile strike

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Sandworm hackers incapacitated Ukrainian power grid amid missile strike 09/11/2023 at 19:17 By Helga Labus Russia-backed ATP group Sandworm is behind the cyberattack that caused disruption of parts of the Ukrainian power grid in late 2022, according to Mandiant. About Sandworm “Sandworm is a threat actor that has carried out cyber operations in support of

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SnapAttack extends collaboration with Mandiant to optimize threat detection for organizations

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SnapAttack extends collaboration with Mandiant to optimize threat detection for organizations 09/11/2023 at 15:01 By Industry News SnapAttack announced an expanded partnership with Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, to extend operationalized threat intelligence to organizations of all sizes. Building on its current API integrations, the new endeavor will bring Mandiant’s threat intelligence to customers directly

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Russian Hackers Used Novel OT Attack to Disrupt Ukrainian Power Amid Mass Missile Strikes

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Russian Hackers Used Novel OT Attack to Disrupt Ukrainian Power Amid Mass Missile Strikes 09/11/2023 at 12:16 By Ryan Naraine Mandiant says Russia’s Sandworm hackers used a novel OT attack to cause power outages that coincided with mass missile strikes on critical infrastructure across Ukraine. The post Russian Hackers Used Novel OT Attack to Disrupt

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Citrix Bleed: Mass exploitation in progress (CVE-2023-4966)

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Citrix Bleed: Mass exploitation in progress (CVE-2023-4966) 30/10/2023 at 14:46 By Zeljka Zorz CVE-2023-4966, aka “Citrix Bleed”, a critical information disclosure vulnerability affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC/Gateway devices, is being massively exploited by threat actors. According to security researcher Kevin Beaumont’s cybersecurity industry sources, one ransomware group has already distributed a Python script to automate the

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Citrix NetScaler bug exploited in the wild since August (CVE-2023-4966)

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Citrix NetScaler bug exploited in the wild since August (CVE-2023-4966) 18/10/2023 at 17:18 By Helga Labus A recently patched Citrix NetScaler ADC/Gateway information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2023-4966) has been exploited by attackers in the wild since late August 2023, Mandiant researchers have revealed. About CVE-2023-4966 Citrix’s security advisory, published on October 10, says that the vulnerability

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(Re)check your patched NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances for signs of compromise

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(Re)check your patched NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances for signs of compromise 16/08/2023 at 13:49 By Zeljka Zorz Administrators of Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances should check for evidence of installed webshells even if they implemented fixes for CVE-2023-3519 quickly: A recent internet scan by Fox-IT researchers has revealed over 1,800 backdoored NetScaler devices,

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North Korean hackers targeted tech companies through JumpCloud and GitHub

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North Korean hackers targeted tech companies through JumpCloud and GitHub 21/07/2023 at 16:03 By Helga Labus North Korean state-sponsored hackers have been linked to two recent cyberattack campaigns: one involving a spear-phishing attack on JumpCloud and the other targeting tech employees on GitHub through a social engineering campaign. The JumpCloud intrusion On June 27, JumpCloud

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Empowering Google security and networking solutions with AI

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Empowering Google security and networking solutions with AI 21/06/2023 at 06:47 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Sunil Potti, VP and GM, Cloud Security Google Cloud, talks about how new security and networking solutions powered by AI help improve security so Google customers can address their most pressing security challenges and remain

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MOVEit Transfer zero-day was exploited by Cl0p gang (CVE-2023-34362)

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MOVEit Transfer zero-day was exploited by Cl0p gang (CVE-2023-34362) 05/06/2023 at 15:10 By Zeljka Zorz The zero-day vulnerability attackers have exploited to compromise vulnerable Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer installations finally has an identification number: CVE-2023-34362. Based on information shared by Mandiant, Rapid7 and other security researchers, the attackers seem to have opportunistically targeted as many

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Attackers hacked Barracuda ESG appliances via zero-day since October 2022

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Attackers hacked Barracuda ESG appliances via zero-day since October 2022 30/05/2023 at 20:10 By Zeljka Zorz Barracuda says that the recently discovered compromise of some of it clients’ ESG appliances via a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-2868) resulted in the deployment of three types of malware and data exfiltration. The company did not say how many organizations

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