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Malware & Threats

Issued by: DataBreach Today

An international law enforcement operation took down a phishing-as-a-service website that security researchers say was responsible for more than 150,000 phishing domains. Authorities in Indonesia arrested the site’s alleged administrator and another man, while Japanese police arrested an additional suspect, Interpol announced Tuesday. The site, 16shop, has been in existence since at least 2017. It…

News

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The Biden administration says it want to get ahead of ransomware attacks against schools before tens of millions of pupils resume studies later this month. Typically understaffed and underfunded when it comes to cybersecurity, American K-12 schools have experienced a ramp-up in ransomware attacks, particularly after the novel coronavirus pandemic forced hasty adoption of remote…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: DataBreach Today

A five-year old vulnerability in Fortinet SSL VPNs remains one of the most widely exploited flaws in enterprise networks, despite repeat patch warnings. So say cybersecurity officials across the U.S. and its Five Eyes intelligence alliance partners in a new joint security advisory detailing the 12 most common vulnerabilities and exposures that were most “routinely…

Software Security

Issued by: CSO Online

The software supply chain is a vast, global landscape made up of a complicated web of interconnected software producers and consumers. As such, it comes with numerous risks and vulnerabilities that affect all software–including those from third parties and outside vendors. These risks include everything from code vulnerabilities and open-source code repositories to hijacked software…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Why are so many fresh zero-day vulnerabilities getting exploited in the wild? A new study from Google says that last year, 41 new zero-day vulnerabilities were exploited in the wild. While that’s welcome news in terms of recent volume – it’s a 40% decrease from the all-time annual high of 69 in 2021 – it’s…

Application Security

Issued by: DataBreach Today

The desire for digital acceleration has led organizations to drive toward delivering faster and better application experiences and to bring applications and data closer to users and devices. Many organizations realize that application journeys are fluid in practice because applications can live anywhere from data centers to hybrid and multi-clouds to edge compute. The reason…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: DataBreach Today

The Clop group’s mass exploitation of MOVEit file-transfer software represents the latest stage of innovation in the ever-evolving ransomware ecosystem. As with all cybercrime, criminals’ imperative is simple: maximize illicit profits via the least amount of effort, time and risk. Russian-speaking criminal group Clop’s attacks have affected at least 421 organizations – and likely many…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

The soon-to-be-released Version 4.0 of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) promises to fix a number of issues with the severity metric for security bugs. But vulnerability experts say that prioritizing patches or measuring exploitability will still be a tough nut to crack. The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) released a preview…

News

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Ukrainian law enforcement dismantled yet another bot farm spreading Russian propaganda over social media. The Ukrainian Cyber Police raided 21 locations across the country and seized computer equipment, mobile phones and more than 250 GSM gateways, including 150,000 SIM cards of different mobile operators used in the illicit activities to create fake social media profiles….

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Affairs

Adobe warns customers of a critical ColdFusion pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-29300 (CVSS score 9.8), that is actively exploited in attacks in the wild. “Adobe is aware that CVE-2023-29300 has been exploited in the wild in very limited attacks targeting Adobe ColdFusion,” reads a statement sent by the company to its customers….