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Sophos reveals 5-year battle with Chinese hackers attacking network devices

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Sophos disclosed today a series of reports dubbed "Pacific Rim" that detail how the cybersecurity company has been sparring with Chinese threat actors for over 5 years as they increasingly targeted networking devices worldwide, including those from Sophos.

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VMware critical vulnerability

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VMware has recently released software updates to address a security flaw believed to have already been patched in vCenter Server. The vulnerability, known as CVE-2024-38812 with a CVSS score of 9.8, is a heap-overflow vulnerability. Continue reading this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory to mitigate your risk.

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SonicWall VPN vulnerability

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Fog and Akira ransomware operators are exploiting a critical SonicWall SSL VPN vulnerability, CVE-2024-40766, to breach corporate networks.

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Black Basta ransomware poses as IT support on Microsoft Teams to breach networks

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The BlackBasta ransomware operation has moved its social engineering attacks to Microsoft Teams, posing as corporate help desks contacting employees to assist them with an ongoing spam attack.

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Amazon seizes domains used in rogue Remote Desktop campaign to steal data

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Amazon has seized domains used by the Russian APT29 hacking group in targeted attacks against government and military organizations to steal Windows credentials and data using malicious Remote Desktop Protocol connection files.

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QNAP, Synology, Lexmark devices hacked on Pwn2Own Day 3

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The third day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2024 continued to showcase the expertise of white hat hackers as they exposed 11 zero-day vulnerabilities, adding $124,750 to the total prize pool, which now stands at $874,875.

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UnitedHealth says data of 100 million stolen in Change Healthcare breach

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UnitedHealth has confirmed for the first time that over 100 million people had their personal information and healthcare data stolen in the Change Healthcare ransomware attack, marking this as the largest healthcare data breach in recent years.

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Henry Schein discloses data breach a year after ransomware attack

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Henry Schein has finally disclosed a data breach following at least two back-to-back cyberattacks in 2023 by the BlackCat Ransomware gang, revealing that over 160,000 people had their personal information stolen.

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Insurance admin Landmark says data breach impacts 800,000 people

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Insurance administrative services company Landmark Admin warns that a data breach impacts over 800,000 people from a May cyberattack.

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Mandiant says new Fortinet flaw has been exploited since June

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A new Fortinet FortiManager flaw dubbed "FortiJump" and tracked as CVE-2024-47575 has been exploited since June 2024 in zero-day attacks on over 50 servers, according to a new report by Mandiant.

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Over 6,000 WordPress sites hacked to install plugins pushing infostealers

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WordPress sites are being hacked to install malicious plugins that display fake software updates and errors to push information-stealing malware.

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Microsoft creates fake Azure tenants to pull phishers into honeypots

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Microsoft is using deceptive tactics against phishing actors by spawning realistic-looking honeypot tenants with access to Azure and lure cybercriminals in to collect intelligence about them.

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Cisco takes DevHub portal offline after hacker publishes stolen data

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Cisco confirmed today that it took its public DevHub portal offline after a threat actor leaked "non-public" data, but it continues to state that there is no evidence that its systems were breached.

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Tech giant Nidec confirms data breach following ransomware attack

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Nidec Corporation is informing that hackers behind a ransomware attack is suffered earlier this year stole data and leaked it on the dark web.

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Intel, AMD CPUs on Linux impacted by newly disclosed Spectre bypass

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The latest generations of Intel processors, including Xeon chips, and AMD's older microarchitectures on Linux are vulnerable to new speculative execution attacks that bypass existing 'Spectre' mitigations.

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Critical Ivanti CSA flaw actively exploited

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Three Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) vulnerabilities are being exploited and weaponized in the wild. Read this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory to learn how you can mitigate your risk of being targeted.

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Windows Kernel vulnerability used in espionage campaign

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 Researchers have observed the well-known cyber espionage group OilRig exploiting a now-patched privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2024-30088) in the Windows Kernel to conduct espionage operations. Read this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory to learn more about the espionage campaign and how to avoid becoming a victim of the campaign.

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Mozilla Firefox zero-day vulnerability

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A Mozilla Firefox critical zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2024-9680, has emerged. This vulnerability allows an attacker to have unauthorized access and potential remote code execution on the affected OS. Continue reading this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory for recommendations to remediate this threat.

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Microsoft warns it lost some customer's security logs for a month

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Microsoft is warning enterprise customers that, for almost a month, a bug caused critical logs to be partially lost, putting at risk companies that rely on this data to detect unauthorized activity.

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EDRSilencer red team tool used in attacks to bypass security

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A tool for red-team operations called EDRSilencer has been observed in malicious incidents attempting to identify security tools and mute their alerts to management consoles.

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Top Breaches Of 2023

Customers Affected In T-Mobile Breach
Accounts Affected In MOVEit Breach
Customers Affected In MCNA Insurance Data Breach
Individuals Affected In PharMerica Data Breach
Users Affected In ChatGPT Major Data Breach
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