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Qualcomm patches high-severity zero-day exploited in attacks
2024-10-07 18:30

Qualcomm has released security patches for a zero-day vulnerability in the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) service that impacts dozens of chipsets. [...]

American Water shuts down online services after cyberattack
2024-10-07 17:29

American Water, the largest publicly traded U.S. water and wastewater utility company, was forced to shut down some of its systems after a Thursday cyberattack. [...]

Chinese cyberspies reportedly breached Verizon, AT&T, Lumen
2024-10-07 17:17

Salt Typhoon may have accessed court-ordered wiretaps and US internet traffic Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies were among the US broadband providers whose networks were reportedly hacked by...

AT&T, Verizon reportedly hacked to target US govt wiretapping platform
2024-10-07 14:51

Multiple U.S. broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, have been breached by a Chinese hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon, the Wall Street Journal reports. [...]

Hybrid Analysis Bolstered by Criminal IP’s Comprehensive Domain Intelligence
2024-10-07 14:02

AI SPERA announced that its domain and IP address threat intel platform, Criminal IP, is now integrated with Hybrid Analysis. Learn more from Criminal IP about how this brings additional insights...

Multi-cloud Strategies Making DDI and DNS Cumbersome to Manage
2024-10-07 13:54

Infoblox’s Universal DDI solution could help stop cyber threat actors earlier.

New Gorilla Botnet Launches Over 300,000 DDoS Attacks Across 100 Countries
2024-10-07 13:52

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new botnet malware family called Gorilla (aka GorillaBot) that is a variant of the leaked Mirai botnet source code. Cybersecurity firm NSFOCUS, which...

US Government, Microsoft Aim to Disrupt Russian threat actor ‘Star Blizzard’
2024-10-07 13:35

Read more about the U.S. Department of Justice and Microsoft’s efforts to interrupt the activities of Russian-based threat actor Star Blizzard, and learn how to protect from this threat.

Linux systems targeted with stealthy “Perfctl” cryptomining malware
2024-10-07 12:34

Thousands of Linux systems are likely infected with the highly elusive and persistent “perfctl” (or “perfcc“) cryptomining malware and many others still could be at risk of getting compromised,...

Australian Cybersecurity Professionals Confess To Growing Job Stress
2024-10-07 12:00

Stressful cyber roles make it more difficult to recruit and retain cyber skills.