Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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Europol Says Home Routing Mobile Encryption Feature Aids Criminals

Europol is proposing solutions to address challenges posed by privacy-enhancing technologies in Home Routing that impede law enforcement's ability to intercept communications in criminal investigations.

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Report: 47% of Corporate Data Stored in the Cloud Is Sensitive

Cloud resources are increasingly targeted by cyberattacks, with SaaS applications, cloud storage, and cloud management infrastructure being the top categories of attack, according to Thales.

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Experts Warn of Mekotio Banking Trojan Targeting Latin American Countries

Financial institutions in Latin America are being threatened by a banking trojan called Mekotio (aka Melcoz). That's according to findings from Trend Micro, which said it recently observed a surge in cyber attacks distributing the Windows malware. Mekotio, known to be actively put to use since 2015, is known to target Latin American countries like Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Peru, and Portugal

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Gogs Vulnerabilities May Put Your Source Code at Risk

Exploiting these flaws could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands, read source code, and gain unauthorized access. The vulnerabilities require authentication, with one flaw specifically requiring the built-in SSH server to be enabled.

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Vinted Fined $2.6m Over Data Protection Failure

Vinted, a prominent online platform for second-hand sales, has been fined €2,385,276 ($2,582,730) for violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by not properly handling personal data deletion requests.

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Report: 99% of IoT Exploitation Attempts Rely on Previously Known CVEs

The expanding attack surface, with over 15 billion connected devices worldwide, raises concerns about privacy breaches for users. The average home now has 21 connected devices, facing more than 10 daily cyberattacks.

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Pro-Bangladeshi Hacktivists Enter Global Stage with Matryoshka 424 Alliance

Team ARXU gained recognition earlier this year for targeting Romania over its support for Israel. The hacker group has a history of cyberattacks against Israel and its allies.

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Infostealing Malware Masquerading as Generative AI Tools

Information-stealing malware families have evolved to impersonate generative AI tools, with examples like GoldPickaxe stealing facial recognition data for deepfake videos.

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GootLoader is Still Active and Efficient

The malware has evolved into multiple versions, with GootLoader 3 being the latest one in use. Despite updates to the payload, the infection strategies have remained consistent since its resurgence in 2020.

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Critical Unpatched Flaws Disclosed in Popular Gogs Open-Source Git Service

Four unpatched security flaws, including three critical ones, have been disclosed in the Gogs open-source, self-hosted Git service that could enable an authenticated attacker to breach susceptible instances, steal or wipe source code, and even plant backdoors. The vulnerabilities, according to SonarSource researchers Thomas Chauchefoin and Paul Gerste, are listed below - CVE-2024-39930 (CVSS

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Apple Removes VPN Apps from Russian App Store Amid Government Pressure

Apple removed a number of virtual private network (VPN) apps in Russia from its App Store on July 4, 2024, following a request by Russia's state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, Russian news media reported. This includes the mobile apps of 25 VPN service providers, including ProtonVPN, Red Shield VPN, NordVPN and Le VPN, according to MediaZona. It's worth noting that NordVPN previously shut

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Latest Ghostscript Vulnerability Haunts Experts as the Next Big Breach Enabler

The vulnerability could be exploited to compromise systems without requiring user interaction, contrary to some severity assessments initially made by Tenable and Red Hat.

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New Eldorado Ransomware Targets Windows, VMware ESXi VMs

Eldorado also encrypts network shares using the SMB protocol, deletes shadow volume copies, and skips certain file types to prevent system damage. Affiliates can customize attacks on Windows, while Linux customization is limited.

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Traeger Security Bugs Threatening Grillers' Hard Work

Traeger grills face security bugs that could spell trouble for BBQ enthusiasts. High-severity vulnerabilities in the Traeger Grill D2 Wi-Fi Controller could allow remote attackers to control the grill's temperature or shut it down.

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Passkey Redaction Attacks Subvert GitHub, Microsoft Authentication

Online accounts are increasingly protected by passkey technology, but many platforms like banking, e-commerce, social media, and software development can still be compromised using adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks.

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OVHcloud Hit with Record 840 Million PPS DDoS Attack Using MikroTik Routers

French cloud computing firm OVHcloud said it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in April 2024 that reached a packet rate of 840 million packets per second (Mpps). This is just above the previous record of 809 million Mpps reported by Akamai as targeting a large European bank in June 2020. The 840 Mpps DDoS attack is said to have been a combination of a TCP

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New Golang Zergeca Botnet appeared in the threat landscape

The researchers at QiAnXin XLab team discovered a new Golang-based botnet called Zergeca, capable of conducting DDoS attacks. It was detected through a suspicious ELF file and has been used to launch DDoS attacks in Canada, the U.S., and Germany.

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Blueprint for Success: Implementing a CTEM Operation

The attack surface isn’t what it once was and it’s becoming a nightmare to protect. A constantly expanding and evolving attack surface means risk to the business has skyrocketed and current security measures are struggling to keep it protected. If you’ve clicked on this article, there’s a good chance you’re looking for solutions to manage this risk. In 2022, a new framework was coined by Gartner

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Turla: A Master of Deception

The Turla malware has been found using weaponized LNK files to infect computers. The malware leverages a compromised website to distribute malicious packages through phishing emails.