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[ad_1] The US intelligence community has confirmed it detected evidence of foreign interference during the 2022 US federal elections. Russia, China and Iran were among the estimated countries of origins for these operations. In a series of declassified reports released on December 11, 2023, the... Continue reading

[ad_1] Security researchers have observed a new fraudulent campaign orchestrated by the Smishing Triad gang and impersonating the United Arab Emirates Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship.  Operating through malicious SMS messages that claim to be from the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs,... Continue reading

[ad_1] The takedown of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group’s leak site has been confirmed as a result of global law enforcement action. The FBI is now urging over 500 of the group’s victims to come forward to receive a decryption key that will enable them to... Continue reading

[ad_1] A total of 26,447 vulnerabilities were disclosed in 2023, surpassing the previous year by over 1500 CVEs. The figures come from the latest report by the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU), published today. Notably, less than 1% of these vulnerabilities posed the highest risk, being... Continue reading

[ad_1] One of the largest mortgage providers in the US has revealed that an October breach has impacted 14.7 million customers. Mr Cooper (formerly Nationstar Mortgage) discovered suspicious activity on its network on October 31 and subsequently shut down its systems to contain the incident... Continue reading

[ad_1] Legacy vulnerabilities and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) endpoints are being singled out by attackers, according to new data based on billions of recorded cyber-attacks in 2023. Honeypot sensors set up in the UK by insurer Coalition have recorded 5.8 billion attacks so far in... Continue reading

[ad_1] Cybersecurity researchers spotted new Qakbot activity targeting the hospitality industry last week. According to a Saturday post on X (formerly Twitter) by CronUp cyber threat intelligence specialist Germán Fernández, the new attacks are characterized by low volume and have been traced back to a... Continue reading

[ad_1] Delta Dental of California and affiliates disclosed a data breach following a global security incident linked to the vulnerability in MOVEit file transfer software by Progress Software.  According to a breach notification filed with the Maine Attorney General on December 14, unauthorized actors accessed protected... Continue reading

[ad_1] ALPHV was the second-most leveraged ransomware strain in North America and Europe between January 2022 and October 2023, just before the reported takedown of the group’s website, according to ZeroFox research. The analysis found that ALPHV, aka BlackCat, accounted for around 11% of all... Continue reading