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Russian Sandworm hackers targeted 20 critical orgs in Ukraine
2024-04-22 12:30

Russian hacker group Sandworm aimed to disrupt operations at around 20 critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, according to a report from the Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team. The attacks occurred in March and in some cases the hackers were able to infiltrate the targeted network by poisoning the supply chain to deliver compromised or vulnerable software, or through the software provider's ability to access organization's systems for maintainance and technical suport.

MITRE breached by nation-state threat actor via Ivanti zero-days
2024-04-22 12:16

MITRE has been breached by attackers via two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti's Connect Secure VPN devices. The attackers have also managed to move laterally and compromise the company network's VMware infrastructure, MITRE confirmed late last week.

Pentera's 2024 Report Reveals Hundreds of Security Events per Week, Highlighting the Criticality of Continuous Validation
2024-04-22 11:30

Over the past two years, a shocking 51% of organizations surveyed in a leading industry report have been compromised by a cyberattack. Yes, over half.  And this, in a world where enterprises...

UK data watchdog questions how private Google's Privacy Sandbox is
2024-04-22 11:13

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MITRE Corporation Breached by Nation-State Hackers Exploiting Ivanti Flaws
2024-04-22 11:05

The MITRE Corporation reported a cyber attack that began in January 2024, involving a nation-state actor exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure appliances. The attack compromised MITRE's Networked Experimentation, Research, and Virtualization Environment (NERVE), which is an unclassified network used for research and prototyping.The attackers used these vulnerabilities to bypass multi-factor authentication and execute arbitrary commands. They gained initial access, moved laterally within the network, and compromised the VMware infrastructure using an administrator account. This allowed them to deploy backdoors and web shells for ongoing access and data extraction.

Has the ever-present cyber danger just got worse?
2024-04-22 10:59

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Ransomware Double-Dip: Re-Victimization in Cyber Extortion
2024-04-22 10:22

Between crossovers - Do threat actors play dirty or desperate? In our dataset of over 11,000 victim organizations that have experienced a Cyber Extortion / Ransomware attack, we noticed that some...

Researchers Uncover Windows Flaws Granting Hackers Rootkit-Like Powers
2024-04-22 09:22

New research has found that the DOS-to-NT path conversion process could be exploited by threat actors to achieve rootkit-like capabilities to conceal and impersonate files, directories, and...

Google all at sea over rising tide of robo-spam
2024-04-22 08:30

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Rarest, strangest, form of Windows saved techie from moment of security madness
2024-04-22 07:29

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