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DDoS Attacks Delay Putin Speech at Russian Economic Forum

Billed as the "Russian Davos," the St. Petersburg Economic Forum was stalled on Friday by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, delaying a speech from Russian President Vladimir Putin for...
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Name That Toon: Cuter Than a June Bug

Summer is here, the beaches are filling up, and even our multilegged friends are ready for some R&R. Or maybe, just maybe, they're hoping to catch us with our guards down....

Nifty News: Christie’s NFT expert to lead CryptoPunks, fake heiress launches NFT collection

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Noah Davis, the nonfungible token (NFT) specialist at auction house Christie’s, has said he’s leaving the position in July to take up a post as brand lead for the...

Atlassian Confluence Flaw Being Used to Deploy Ransomware and Crypto Miners

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By: Ravie Lakshmanan A recently patched critical security flaw in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center products is being actively weaponized in real-world attacks to drop cryptocurrency miners and ransomware...

ALPHV squeezes victim with dedicated leak site for employees and customers

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ALPHV, also known as BlackCat, created a leak site on the regular web, betting it can squeeze money out of victims faster than a dark web site. Eyebrows were...

Chinese Hackers Exploited Sophos Firewall Zero-Day Flaw to Target South Asian Entity

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By: Ravie Lakshmanan A sophisticated Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) actor exploited a critical security vulnerability in Sophos' firewall product that came to light earlier this year to infiltrate an...
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Atlassian Confluence Server Bug Under Active Attack to Distribute Ransomware

A recently disclosed critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Atlassian's Confluence Server collaboration platform is now under active attack, in a spate of attacks bent on deploying a variety of...
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DeadBolt Ransomware Actively Targets QNAP NAS Devices — Again

QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices running out-of-date software are under snowballing numbers of active attacks in a new DeadBolt ransomware campaign, an advisory has warned. The company is investigating the...
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WordPress Plug-in Ninja Forms Issues Update for Critical Bug

A new security update to the Ninja Forms WordPress plug-in — which has more than 1 million active installations — patches a code injection vulnerability researchers say is being...