Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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California City Investigating Data Theft After Ransomware Group’s Claims

The LockBit gang added 15 victims to its leak site on Wednesday including El Cerrito, which is home to more than 25,000 residents and is about 10 minutes north of Oakland.

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Enhancing TLS Security: Google Adds Quantum-Resistant Encryption in Chrome 116

Google has announced plans to add support for quantum-resistant encryption algorithms in its Chrome browser, starting with version 116. "Chrome will begin supporting X25519Kyber768 for establishing symmetric secrets in TLS, starting in Chrome 116, and available behind a flag in Chrome 115," Devon O'Brien said in a post published Thursday. Kyber was chosen by the U.S. Department of Commerce's

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New York Introduces First-Ever Statewide Cybersecurity Strategy

The strategy’s primary pillars – unification, resilience, and preparedness – are designed to enable New York State to not only deter cyberattacks but also neutralize potential threats effectively.

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MustachedBouncer Hackers Compromised Foreign Embassies in Belarus

Anewly identified cyberespionage group in Belarus is targeting foreign embassies often with the assistance of local internet service providers, researchers with the cybersecurity firm ESET said Thursday.

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PSNI and UK voter breaches show data risks should be taken more seriously

There were 9,000 breaches of personal information last year but experts say not enough is being done to stop them“It’s brutal. People are wondering if they should resign, or move house, or get fortified gates. You can feel the anger.”The comment from a former officer in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) underlines the real-life consequences of an all-too frequent occurrence: a data breach. Continue reading...

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Check Point Buys Perimeter 81 for $490M to Enhance its Security Tools for Hybrid and Remote Workers

The acquisition comes amid a major funding crunch for startups. Perimeter 81’s exit is coming at a big discount to its last valuation: It raised $100 million in June 2022 at a $1 billion valuation, according to PitchBook data.

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Researchers Discover New Sophisticated Info-Stealing Malware Called Statc Stealer

Researchers observed that Statc Stealer can steal user’s cookies data, web data, local state, data preferences, login data, various different wallets information, FileZilla, browser autofills, Anydesk, ronin_edge, Metamask, and Telegram data.

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CISA Warns Organizations of Exploited Vulnerability Affecting .NET, Visual Studio

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-38180, was fixed by Microsoft with its August 2023 Patch Tuesday updates, which also address CVE-2023-36884, an Office vulnerability exploited by Russian threat actors.

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Recent Ransomware Attacks Share Curiously Similar Tactics

Over the course of three months beginning in January 2023, Sophos X-Ops investigated four different ransomware attacks, one involving Hive, two by Royal, and one by Black Basta, and noticed distinct similarities between the attacks.

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Researchers Shed Light on APT31's Advanced Backdoors and Data Exfiltration Tactics

The Chinese threat actor known as APT31 (aka Bronze Vinewood, Judgement Panda, or Violet Typhoon) has been linked to a set of advanced backdoors that are capable of exfiltrating harvested sensitive information to Dropbox. The malware is part of a broader collection of more than 15 implants that have been put to use by the adversary in attacks targeting industrial organizations in Eastern Europe

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Western Digital, Synology NAS Vulnerabilities Exposed Millions of Users’ Files

Critical vulnerabilities discovered by IoT and industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty in Western Digital (WD) and Synology network-attached storage (NAS) products could have exposed the files of millions of users.

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New SystemBC Malware Variant Targets South African Power Company

An unknown threat actor has been linked to a cyber attack on a power generation company in South Africa with a new variant of the SystemBC malware called DroxiDat as a precursor to a suspected ransomware attack. "The proxy-capable backdoor was deployed alongside Cobalt Strike Beacons in a South African nation's critical infrastructure," Kurt Baumgartner, principal security researcher at

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EvilProxy Phishing Attack Surges in Last Five Months

Proofpoint came across EvilProxy, a phishing platform, being used in a large-scale campaign targeting MFA-protected Microsoft 365 accounts, with over 120,000 phishing emails sent to more than hundreds of organizations. The campaign primarily targeted high-ranking executives. Organizations must enhance their email and web security to defend against advanced hybrid threats.

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Why Cybersecurity is a Blue-Collar Job

Alternative education options, such as vocational-technical schooling and industry-relevant certifications, offer cost-effective pathways for aspiring cybersecurity professionals.

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Intel Addresses 80 Firmware, Software Vulnerabilities

The most serious of the patched flaws, based on their CVSS score, are 18 high-severity issues allowing privilege escalation or, in a few cases, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

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Lawsuits Mounting Against Florida Hospital in Wake of Breach

Tampa General Hospital is facing at least three proposed federal class action lawsuits filed in recent days following the nonprofit Florida healthcare provider's disclosure late last month of a data theft incident that affected 1.3 million people.

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Attackers Distribute Malware via Freeze.rs And SYK Crypter

FortiGuard Labs has discovered a new injector written in the programming language Rust, which injects shellcode and introduces a malware called XWorm into a victim's system.

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Symmetry Systems Raises $17.7M in Funding

The $17.7 million insider funding round brings the total raised by the data security company to more than $35 million. ForgePoint Capital, Prefix Capital, W11 Capital Management, and TSG (The Syndicate Group) participated in the latest funding round.

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SAP Patches Critical Vulnerability in PowerDesigner Product

German software giant SAP has fixed more than a dozen new vulnerabilities with its August 2023 Patch Tuesday updates, including a critical flaw affecting the company’s PowerDesigner data modeling and enterprise architecture product.

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Akamai Explores the Present Ransomware Scenario

Ransomware groups are shifting their tactics from relying on phishing methods and are now prioritizing the exploitation of vulnerabilities to exfiltrate data from victims' systems. Additionally, these groups have adopted a more assertive strategy to extort and capitalize on vulnerabilities. They even invest in various avenues for financial profit, such as collaborating with other hackers to identify weaknesses in their ransomware code or leveraging Initial Access Brokers (IABs) to gain entry to their target victims.