Yesterday, Volvo confirmed a cybersecurity breach in which an undisclosed amount of data was stolen. According to reports, the Swedish car manufacturer had research and development secrets stolen by …
Log4j RCE activity began on December 1 as botnets start using vulnerability
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has stated that the earliest evidence of the new Log4J exploit occurred on the first day of December. The vulnerability is a vicious flaw in the Java logging library …
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Lack of Patching Leaves 300,000 Routers at Risk for Attack
Hundreds of thousands of routers produced by a Latvian network hardware firm MikroTik are still vulnerable to at least one of four vulnerabilities that are over a year old. These vulnerabilities are …
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AWS Among 12 Cloud Services Affected by Flaws in Eltima SDK
Amazon Web Services is among a dozen cloud services affected by flaws in Eltima SDK, according to new reports. The flaws could enable attackers to disable security and gain kernel-level privileges. …
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Passports Now Most Attacked Form of ID
When it comes to identity theft, passports are now the most frequently attacked form of identification. A new report from Onfido detailing identity theft and fraud over the past year found that …
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AWS Outage Hits Eastern US
Earlier this week, Amazon's cloud computing network suffered from a five-hour outage in which sites such as League of Legends, Tinder, Coinbase, Netflix, Slack, Instacart, Robinhood, Disney+, and more …
Hotel Guests Locked Out of Rooms After Ransomware Attack
Last week, a popular Scandinavian hotel chain warned that a ransomware attack rendered its key system unusable. The attack may have also led to the theft of sensitive or personal information related …
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SolarWinds Attackers Spotted Using New Tactics, Malware
The Russian threat actors behind the SolarWinds attacks, which Microsoft refers to as Nobelium, are allegedly conducting attacks using new tactics and malware. Just one year after the devastating …
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Google Takes Down Glupteba Botnet; Files Lawsuit Against Operators
Google's Threat Analysis Group has taken down the blockchain-enabled botnet known as Glupteba, which consists of roughly 1 million compromised Windows and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Glupteba is …
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Nine State Department Phones Hijacked by Spyware
According to recent reports, nine US State Department officials had their iPhones remotely hacked by spyware developed by the highly controversial NSO Group. NSO Group is an Israeli firm that is …
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