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Moldovan charged for operating botnet used to push ransomware

The U.S. Justice Department charged Moldovan national Alexander Lefterov, the owner and operator of a large-scale botnet that infected thousands of computers across the United States.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 17, 2024
- 02:53 PM
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Cisco discloses root escalation flaw with public exploit code

Cisco has released patches for a high-severity Integrated Management Controller (IMC) vulnerability with public exploit code that can let local attackers escalate privileges to root.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 17, 2024
- 01:25 PM
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Russian Sandworm hackers pose as hacktivists in water utility breaches

The Sandworm hacking group associated with Russian military intelligence has been hiding attacks and operations behind multiple online personas posing as hacktivist groups.
- Bill Toulas
- April 17, 2024
- 01:08 PM
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- April 17, 2024
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Multiple botnets exploiting one-year-old TP-Link flaw to hack routers

At least six distinct botnet malware operations are hunting for TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) routers vulnerable to a command injection security issue reported and addressed last year.
- Bill Toulas
- April 17, 2024
- 09:03 AM
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Microsoft: Copilot ‘app’ on Windows Server mistakenly added by Edge

Microsoft says the new Copilot app, mistakenly added to the list of installed Windows apps by recent Edge updates, doesn't collect or relay data to its servers.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 17, 2024
- 08:16 AM
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UK e-visa rollout starts today for millions: no more physical immigration cards

Starting today, millions living in the UK will receive email invitations to sign up for an e-visa account that will replace their physical immigration documents like Biometric Residence Permits (BRPs). The move is, according to the Home Office, "a key step in creating a modernised and digital border."
- Ax Sharma
- April 17, 2024
- 01:48 AM
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T-Mobile, Verizon workers get texts offering $300 for SIM swaps

Criminals are now texting T-Mobile and Verizon employees on their personal and work phones, trying to tempt them with cash to perform SIM swaps.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 16, 2024
- 07:01 PM
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Cerebral to pay $7 million settlement in Facebook pixel data leak case

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with telehealth firm Cerebral in which the company will pay $7,000,000 over allegations of mishandling people's sensitive health data.
- Bill Toulas
- April 16, 2024
- 05:37 PM
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Ivanti warns of critical flaws in its Avalanche MDM solution

Ivanti has released security updates to fix 27 vulnerabilities in its Avalanche mobile device management (MDM) solution, two of them critical heap overflows that can be exploited for remote command execution.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 16, 2024
- 03:52 PM
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Exploit released for Palo Alto PAN-OS bug used in attacks, patch now

Exploit code is now available for a maximum severity and actively exploited vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS firewall software.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 16, 2024
- 02:36 PM
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Google to crack down on third-party YouTube apps that block ads

YouTube announced yesterday that third-party applications that block ads while watching YouTube videos violates its Terms of Service (ToS), and it will soon start taking action against the apps.
- Bill Toulas
- April 16, 2024
- 02:01 PM
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Cisco warns of large-scale brute-force attacks against VPN services

Cisco warns about a large-scale credential brute-forcing campaign targeting VPN and SSH services on Cisco, CheckPoint, Fortinet, SonicWall, and Ubiquiti devices worldwide.
- Bill Toulas
- April 16, 2024
- 12:11 PM
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PuTTY SSH client flaw allows recovery of cryptographic private keys

A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-31497 in PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 could potentially allow attackers with access to 60 cryptographic signatures to recover the private key used for their generation.
- Bill Toulas
- April 16, 2024
- 11:01 AM
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UnitedHealth: Change Healthcare cyberattack caused $872 million loss

UnitedHealth Group reported an $872 million impact on its Q1 earnings due to the ransomware attack disrupting the U.S. healthcare system since February.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 16, 2024
- 10:24 AM
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- April 16, 2024
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Ransomware gang starts leaking alleged stolen Change Healthcare data

The RansomHub extortion gang has begun leaking what they claim is corporate and patient data stolen from United Health subsidiary Change Healthcare in what has been a long and convoluted extortion process for the company.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 15, 2024
- 05:54 PM
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New SteganoAmor attacks use steganography to target 320 orgs globally

A new campaign conducted by the TA558 hacking group is concealing malicious code inside images using steganography to deliver various malware tools onto targeted systems.
- Bill Toulas
- April 15, 2024
- 04:31 PM
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Microsoft will limit Exchange Online bulk emails to fight spam

Microsoft has announced plans to fight spam by imposing a daily Exchange Online bulk email limit of 2,000 external recipients starting January 2025.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 15, 2024
- 03:11 PM
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Crypto miner arrested for skipping on $3.5 million in cloud server bills

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the arrest and indictment of Charles O. Parks III, known as "CP3O," for allegedly renting large numbers of cloud servers to conduct crypto mining and then skipping out on paying the bills.
- Bill Toulas
- April 15, 2024
- 02:10 PM
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