Malware Attack on CircleCI Engineer’s Laptop Leads to Recent Security Incident
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Jan 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananDevOps / Data Security
DevOps platform CircleCI on Friday disclosed that unidentified threat actors compromised an employee's laptop and leveraged malware to steal their two-factor authentication-backed...
Cacti Servers Under Attack as Majority Fail to Patch Critical Vulnerability
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Jan 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananServer Security / Patch Management
A majority of internet-exposed Cacti servers have not been patched against a recently patched critical security vulnerability that has come under...
Beware: Tainted VPNs Being Used to Spread EyeSpy Surveillanceware
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Jan 13, 2023Ravie LakshmananVPN / Surveillanceware
Tainted VPN installers are being used to deliver a piece of surveillanceware dubbed EyeSpy as part of a malware campaign that started in...
Twitter Denies Hacking Claims, Assures Leaked User Data Not from its System
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Jan 12, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Security / Privacy
Twitter on Wednesday said that its investigation found "no evidence" that users' data sold online was obtained by exploiting any security vulnerabilities...
IcedID Malware Strikes Again: Active Directory Domain Compromised in Under 24 Hours
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Jan 12, 2023Ravie LakshmananActive Directory / Malware
A recent IcedID malware attack enabled the threat actor to compromise the Active Directory domain of an unnamed target less than 24...
Rackspace Confirms Play Ransomware Gang Responsible for Recent Breach
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Jan 06, 2023Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Cyber Threat
Cloud services provider Rackspace on Thursday confirmed that the ransomware gang known as Play was responsible for last month's breach.
The security...
Mitigate the LastPass Attack Surface in Your Environment with this Free Tool
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Jan 05, 2023The Hacker NewsPassword Management / IT Breach
The latest breach announced by LastPass is a major cause for concern to security stakeholders. As often occurs, we are...
The FBI’s Perspective on Ransomware
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Ransomware: contemporary threats, how to prevent them and how the FBI can help
In April 2021, Dutch supermarkets faced a food shortage. The cause wasn't a drought or a...
RedZei Chinese Scammers Targeting Chinese Students in the U.K.
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Jan 02, 2023Ravie LakshmananOnline Scam / Cybersecurity
Chinese international students in the U.K. have been targeted by persistent Chinese-speaking scammers for over a year as part of an activity...
LastPass Admits to Severe Data Breach, Encrypted Password Vaults Stolen
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Dec 23, 2022Ravie LakshmananPassword Management / Data Breach
The August 2022 security breach of LastPass may have been more severe than previously disclosed by the company.
The popular password management...
