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Microsoft has published a "Cyber Signals" report sharing new information about the hacking group Storm-0539 and a sharp rise in gift card theft as we approach the Memorial Day holiday in the United States. The FBI previously warned about Storm-0539's activities earlier this month, highlighting the threat group's advanced techniques in conducting gift card theft and fraud, stating that their tactics resemble state-sponsored hackers and sophisticated cyberespionage actors.

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A new report from IBM X-Force exposes changes in the Grandoreiro malware landscape. The banking trojan is now capable of targeting more than 1,500 global banks in more than 60 countries, and it has been updated with new features.

GitLab patched a high-severity vulnerability that unauthenticated attackers could exploit to take over user accounts in cross-site scripting attacks. "Today, we are releasing versions 17.0.1, 16.11.3, and 16.10.6 for GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition," GitLab said.

Security researchers reverse-engineered Apple's recent iOS 17.5.1 update and found that a recent bug that restored images deleted months or even years ago was caused by an iOS bug and not an issue with iCloud. Today's report can now ease people's concern that Apple was indefinitely storing media users deleted a long time ago, which would have been a massive breach of privacy.

Ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi infrastructure following an established pattern regardless of the file-encrypting malware deployed. "Virtualization platforms are a core component of...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a security flaw impacting Apache Flink, the open-source, unified stream-processing and batch-processing...

The United Kingdom's Information Commissioner Office intends to impose a fine of £750,000 on the Police Service of Northern Ireland for exposing the entire workforce's personal details by mistakenly publishing a spreadsheet online. "We have announced we intend to fine the Police Service of Northern Ireland £750,000 for failing to protect the personal information of its entire workforce." reads the announcement.

Legitimate recording software JAVS Viewer has been saddled with loader malware and has been served from the developer's site since at least April 2, a threat researcher has warned last month. The downloaded malicious installer - JAVS Viewer Setup 8.3.7.250-1.exe, signed by an Authenticode certificate issued to "Vanguard Tech Limited", and downloaded from the official JAVS site on March 5th - contains and executes a binary named fffmpeg.

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