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73% of SME security pros missed or ignored critical alerts
2024-04-25 03:00

Small and medium-sized enterprises IT staff is overwhelmed by the complexity and demands of managing multiple tools in their security stack, leading them to miss critical severity events and weaken their company's security posture, according to Coro. According to the survey, 73% of SME security professionals have missed, ignored or failed to act on critical security alerts, with respondents noting a lack of staff and a lack of time as the top two reasons.

Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors
2024-04-25 00:29

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Governments issue alerts after 'sophisticated' state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes
2024-04-24 23:11

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US charges Samourai cryptomixer founders for laundering $100 million
2024-04-24 20:55

Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill have been charged by the U.S. Department of Justice for laundering more than $100 million from various criminal enterprises through Samourai, a cryptocurrency mixer service they ran for nearly a decade. In addition to crypto mixing services, Samourai also offered a service called "Ricochet," which allowed users to send cryptocurrency using additional and unnecessary intermediate transactions to thwart law enforcement and crypto exchange efforts to track funds sourced from criminal activity.

Maximum severity Flowmon bug has a public exploit, patch now
2024-04-24 20:08

Proof-of-concept exploit code has been released for a top-severity security vulnerability in Progress Flowmon, a tool for monitoring network performance and visibility. The security issue has the maximum severity score of 10/10 and was discovered by researchers at Rhino Security Labs.

Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking
2024-04-24 19:43

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Hackers backdoored Cisco ASA devices via two zero-days (CVE-2024-20353, CVE-2024-20359)
2024-04-24 18:26

A state-sponsored threat actor has managed to compromise Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances used on government networks across the globe and use two zero-day vulnerabilities to install backdoors on them, Cisco Talos researchers have shared on Wednesday."On a compromised ASA, the attackers submit shellcode via the host-scan-reply field, which is then parsed by the Line Dancer implant. The host-scan-reply field, typically used in later parts of the SSL VPN session establishment process, is processed by ASA devices configured for SSL VPN, IPsec IKEv2 VPN with 'client-services' or HTTPS management access," the researchers explained.

Microsoft cannot keep its own security in order, so what hope for its add-ons customers?
2024-04-24 17:15

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ArcaneDoor hackers exploit Cisco zero-days to breach govt networks
2024-04-24 17:07

Cisco warned today that a state-backed hacking group has been exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense firewalls since November 2023 to breach government networks worldwide. The hackers, identified as UAT4356 by Cisco Talos and STORM-1849 by Microsoft, began infiltrating vulnerable edge devices in early November 2023 in a cyber-espionage campaign tracked as ArcaneDoor.

Prompt Hacking, Private GPTs, Zero-Day Exploits and Deepfakes: Report Reveals the Impact of AI on Cyber Security Landscape
2024-04-24 16:11

AI's newfound accessibility will cause a surge in prompt hacking attempts and private GPT models used for nefarious purposes, a new report revealed. Experts at the cyber security company Radware forecast the impact that AI will have on the threat landscape in the 2024 Global Threat Analysis Report.