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HPE notifies employees of data breach after Russian Office 365 hack

HPE notifies employees of data breach after Russian Office 365 hack

Hackers exploit Cityworks RCE bug to breach Microsoft IIS servers

Hackers exploit Cityworks RCE bug to breach Microsoft IIS servers

US health system notifies 882,000 patients of August 2023 breach

US health system notifies 882,000 patients of August 2023 breach

Cloudflare outage caused by botched blocking of phishing URL

Microsoft shares workaround for Windows security update issues

Microsoft shares workaround for Windows security update issues

Microsoft has finally fixed Date & Time bug in Windows 11

Microsoft has finally fixed Date & Time bug in Windows 11

GitLab warns of critical arbitrary branch pipeline execution flaw

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GitLab has released security updates to address multiple flaws in Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE), including a critical arbitrary branch pipeline execution flaw. The vulnerability, which is tracked as CVE-2024-9164, allows unauthorized users to trigger Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines on any branch of a repository. CI/CD pipelines are automated processes that perform tasks […]

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Microsoft Outlook bug blocks email logins, causes app crashes

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Microsoft is investigating an Outlook bug causing desktop app crashes, high system resource usage, and preventing users from logging into their accounts. While the company said these ongoing issues only affect European customers, users worldwide have since reported experiencing the same sign-in and app instability problems. “We’re investigating an issue in which users in Europe may be experiencing crashing, not […]

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European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware

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An APT hacking group known as GoldenJackal has successfully breached air-gapped government systems in Europe using two custom toolsets to steal sensitive data, like emails, encryption keys, images, archives, and documents. According to an ESET report, this happened at least two times, one against the embassy of a South Asian country in Belarus in September 2019 […]

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CISA: Hackers abuse F5 BIG-IP cookies to map internal servers

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CISA is warning that threat actors have been observed abusing unencrypted persistent F5 BIG-IP cookies to identify and target other internal devices on the targeted network. By mapping out internal devices, threat actors can potentially identify vulnerable devices on the network as part of the planning stages in cyberattacks. “CISA has observed cyber threat actors leveraging […]

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Akira and Fog ransomware now exploit critical Veeam RCE flaw

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Ransomware gangs now exploit a critical security vulnerability that lets attackers gain remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) servers. Code White security researcher Florian Hauser found that the security flaw, now tracked as CVE-2024-40711, is caused by a deserialization of untrusted data weakness that unauthenticated threat actors can exploit in […]

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Fidelity Investments says data breach affects over 77,000 people

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Fidelity Investments, a Boston-based multinational financial services company, disclosed that the personal information of over 77,000 customers was exposed after its systems were breached in August. As one of the largest asset managers in the world, with $14.1 trillion in assets under administration and $5.5 trillion under management, Fidelity employs over 75,000 associates across 11 countries in […]

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Crypto-stealing malware campaign infects 28,000 people

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Over 28,000 people from Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, and other countries in the Eurasian region were impacted by a large-scale cryptocurrency-stealing malware campaign. The malware campaign disguises itself as legitimate software promoted via YouTube videos and fraudulent GitHub repositories where victims download password-protected archives that initiate the infection. According to cybersecurity firm Dr. Web, the campaign […]

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Recent Dr.Web cyberattack claimed by pro-Ukrainian hacktivists

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A group of pro-Ukrainian hacktivists has claimed responsibility for the September breach of Russian security company Doctor Web (Dr.Web). Dr.Web confirmed last month that its network was breached on September 14, which forced it to disconnect all internal servers and stop pushing virus database updates to customers while investigating the incident. In a Tuesday Telegram post, DumpForums […]

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Dutch police arrest admin of ‘Bohemia/Cannabia’ dark web market

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An international law enforcement operation led to the arrest of one of the three administrators of the dual dark web market ‘Bohemia/Cannabia,’ known for hosting ads for drug sales and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The man was arrested at the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam on June 27, 2024, and electronic devices containing incriminating […]

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Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users

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Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached. […]

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