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Accenture Discloses It Had Suffered Data Breach Following a Ransomware Attack

The LockBit Ransomware Gang Hit the Company in August 2021.

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Customers of Visible Wireless Carrier Had Their Accounts Compromised

Visible Customers Started to Receive Emails from the Company Saying that Their Passwords and Addresses Have Been Changed.

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The Anonymous Domain Registration Might Be Prohibited Shortly

Opinions Are Divided Over the EU’s Legislation Regarding the Anonymous Domain Registration.

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Banco Pichincha Impacted by a Cyberattack

Ecuador’s Largest Bank Shut Down Operations Following the Incident that Is Believed to Be a Ransomware Attack.

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Vulnerable Video DVR Devices Now Targeted by the FreakOut Botnet

FreakOut Botnet Developers Have Added a PoC Exploit for Visual Tools DVR.

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Help Net Security Publishes a Report on Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

The Paper Includes a Directory of Notable Players in the XDR Market Segment, Including Heimdal™’s CEO, Morten Kjærsgaard.

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Three Men Accused to Have Participated in a Scheme to Launder the Profits of a BEC Attack

One of the Individuals Is Facing Up to 52 Years in Jail.

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14,000 Gmail Users Warned by Google of Phishing Campaign

The Phishing Operation Was Reportedly Conducted by Russian APT28Threat Actors.

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Welland Park Academy IT Systems Hacked by a Former Employee Who Was Getting Bored

The School Is Not the Only Victim of the 29-year-old Man. An IT Company Also Reported Unauthorized Actions against their Computer Systems.

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What Is Lateral Movement? Lateral Movement Explained

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Staking Protocol Compound Users Mistakenly Receive $90M

The Huge Payout Happened Due to a Bug in the Software Upgrade.

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JVCKenwood Suffers Ransomware Attack

Conti Ransomware Gang Claims to Have Stolen 1.5TB Data from JVCKenwood During the Attack.

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GhostEmperor Campaign Targets Asian Countries Abusing Microsoft Vulnerabilities

Hackers Use a New Rootkit Dubbed Demodex that Has Been Adapted to Work on Windows 10.

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Forward Air Corporation Recently Disclosed Data Theft Following a Ransomware Attack

The Ransomware Attack Had Been Revealed by the Freight Shipping Company in December 2020.

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A Working Exploit for the CVE-2021-22005 Flaw in VMware vCenter Was Publicly Released

Cybercriminals Are Already Taking Advantage of It.

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Illegitimate Call Centers Defrauding Foreign Cryptocurrency Investors Were Taken Down by SSU

Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) Said that Thousands of Investors Worldwide Have Been Tricked.

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Critical Vulnerabilities Affecting QVR Video Surveillance Software Patched Up by QNAP

Two Out of Three Vulnerabilities Received a Critical Severity Score of 9.8 Out of 10.

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US, Canadian Android Mobile Users Targeted by TangleBot Malware

The Malware Can Control SMS and Mobile Capabilities, Contacts, Internet Access, Call Records, Microphone, and Camera.

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The RaidForums Data Marketplace Mistakenly Makes Confidential Staff Pages Public

Everyone Was Able to See Bans-related Conversations, Various Requests, and Others.

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Apple Announced that TLS 1.0 and 1.1 Has Been Deprecated in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS 12, and More

The Tech Giant Also Stated that Support for the Protocols Will Be Removed in Future Releases.

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Turla APT Group Employs New TinyTurla Backdoor in Attacks Against Countries Around the World

TinyTurla Backdoor Has Been Recently Used in Cyberattacks Involving the U.S., Germany, and Afghanistan.

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US Sanctioned Suex Cryptocurrency Exchange for Allegedly Processing Ransomware Payments

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control Prohibited Americans from Doing Business with the Cryptocurrency Exchange Over The Counter (OTC) Broker Suex.

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GitHub Identifies Arbitrary Code Execution Bugs in the Open-source Node.js Packages

The Flaws Could be Used by Cybercriminals to Attain Arbitrary Code Execution on a System Deploying Suspicious npm Packages.

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What Is BYOD? Bring Your Own Device Security Policy

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Russia Blamed by Germany for Alleged Parliament Cyberattack

Germany Accuses Russia of Hacking the German Parliament Before the Federal Elections this Month. The Same Thing Happened in 2015.

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Netgear Tackles Severe Security Vulnerabilities Impacting Several of Its Smart Switches

The Security Bugs Could Be Exploited by an Attacker to Gain Complete Control of a Vulnerable Device.

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Conti Ransomware Is Now Using ProxyShell Exploits to Compromise Exchange Servers

ProxyShell Allows Unauthenticated, Remote Code Execution on Vulnerable Servers that Haven’t Been Mended.

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The Full Source Code for the Babuk Ransomware Published on a Russian Hacker Forum

The Source Code Was Leaked by a Babuk Developer Who Was Diagnosed With Lung Cancer.

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Hackers Actively Exploit Critical Vulnerability Found in Atlassian Confluence

The Flaw Was Recently Patched for the Impacted Versions of Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center.

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Patients at DuPage Medical Group May Have Had Their Data Compromised Following a Cyberattack

Names, Addresses, and Dates of Birth of 600,000 Individuals May Have Been Exposed In a July Cyberattack.