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Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras

Tens of thousands of cameras have failed to patch a critical, 11-month-old CVE, leaving thousands of organizations exposed. New research indicates that over 80,000 Hikvision surveillance cameras in ...
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Phishing Attacks Skyrocket with Microsoft and Facebook as Most Abused Brands

Instances of phishing attacks leveraging the Microsoft brand increased 266 percent in Q1 compared to the year prior. The bloom is back on phishing attacks with criminals doubling down on fake messages ...
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Patchable and Preventable Security Issues Lead Causes of Q1 Attacks

Attacks against U.S. companies spike in Q1 2022 with patchable and preventable external vulnerabilities responsible for bulk of attacks. Eighty-two percent of attacks on organizations in Q1 2022 were ...
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Microsoft Patches ‘Dogwalk’ Zero-Day and 17 Critical Flaws

August Patch Tuesday tackles 121 CVEs, 17 critical bugs and one zero-day bug exploited in the wild. Microsoft is urging users to patch a zero-day vulnerability dubbed Dogwalk that is actively being ...
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Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firms

Over 130 companies tangled in sprawling phishing campaign that spoofed a multi-factor authentication system. Targeted attacks on Twilio and Cloudflare employees are tied to a massive phishing campaign ...
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Microsoft Kills 18 Azure Accounts Tied to Nation-State Attacks

An APT group has started heavily relying on cloud services like Azure Active Directory and OneDrive, as well as open-source tools, to obfuscate its attacks. Microsoft has suspended 18 Azure Active ...
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Ransomware’s New Swindle: Triple Extortion

Ransomware attackers are now demanding cash from the customers of victims too. Ransomware attacks are exploding at a staggering rate, and so are the ransoms being demanded. Now experts are warning ...
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‘Fancy Lazarus’ Cyberattackers Ramp up Ransom DDoS Efforts

The group, known for masquerading as various APT groups, is back with a spate of attacks on U.S. companies. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) extortion group has blazed back on the cybercrime ...
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Canopy Parental Control App Wide Open to Unpatched XSS Bugs

The possible cyberattacks include disabling monitoring, location-tracking of children and malicious redirects of parent-console users. Canopy, a parental control app that offers a range of features ...
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Browser-in-the-Browser Attack Makes Phishing Nearly Invisible

Can we trust web browsers to protect us, even if they say “https?” Not with the novel BitB attack, which fakes popup SSO windows to phish away credentials for Google, Facebook and Microsoft, et al.
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1M Stolen Credit Cards Hit Dark Web for Free

A dump of hundreds of thousands of active accounts is aimed at promoting AllWorld.Cards, a recently launched cybercriminal site for selling payment credentials online. Threat actors have leaked 1 ...
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Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise

Lockbit is by far this summer’s most prolific ransomware group, trailed by two offshoots of the Conti group. After a recent dip, ransomware attacks are back on the rise. According to data released by ...