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6 Best Practices To Protect Your Company From Data Loss

Cyber Writes — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:14:53 +0000

Data is a critical asset in today’s digital business landscape. The loss of crucial information can result in severe financial damages and harm to a company’s reputation. Protecting your company from data loss involves implementing proactive measures to secure data integrity. This article highlights best practices to prevent catastrophic data loss and protect your company’s […]

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OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule 3.3.5 Released – What’s New!

Guru Baran — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:03:43 +0000

The CRS v3.3.5 release has been announced by the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) team. The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) is a set of general attack detection rules that may be used with ModSecurity or other compatible web application firewalls. The CRS seeks to guard online applications against a variety of assaults, […]

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FraudGPT: A New Dark Side AI Tool For Cyber Criminals

Guru Baran — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:23:47 +0000

A new tool called FraudGPT has been launched by cybercriminals which pose a serious threat to both individuals and businesses. This black-hat-based tool is capable of executing social engineering and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, making it a real cause for concern. The recent activities on the Dark Web Forum show the emergence new malicious […]

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Critical MikroTik RouterOS Flaw Exposes 900,000 Systems to Cyber Attacks

Eswar — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:03:39 +0000

MikroTik RouterOS were vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability which was first disclosed in June 2022 at REcon. The vulnerability existed on the x86 Virtual Machines of RouterOS, where a root shell can be obtained. However, the new CVE for this vulnerability was assigned only in the middle of July 2023 when researchers at Vulncheck […]

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Zenbleed – AMD’s Zen2 Processor Flaw Allows Attackers to Steal Sensitive Data

Tushar Subhra Dutta — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:33:28 +0000

The CPUs that are based on x86-64 architecture feature XMM registers (128-bit), recently extended to 256-bit (YMM) and 512-bit (ZMM) for greater capacity. Beyond number crunching, the large registers (YMM and ZMM) are employed in various scenarios, including standard C library functions such as:- Tavis Ormandy, a Google security researcher, found a fresh AMD Zen2 […]

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Hackers Use SMS Alerts to Install SpyNote Malware

Eswar — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:23:49 +0000

Reports indicate that a Smishing campaign was conducted against Japanese Android users under the name of a Japanese Power and Water Infrastructure company. The SMS contains a link to lure victims into a phishing site. Once the victims click on the link, mobile malware is downloaded, which was discovered to be the SpyNote malware. The […]

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‘SIM Swapper’ Pleads Guilty For Hacking Instagram User Accounts

Sneka — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 10:54:52 +0000

A 24-year-old man named Amir Hossein Golshan from Downtown Los Angeles has pleaded guilty for hacking Instagram users’ accounts, using a technique called “SIM swapping” to obtain money fraudulently. The charges consist of illegally accessing a secured computer to acquire data, a single charge of wire fraud, and another charge of accessing a computer for […]

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15 More Vulnerabilities Added to 2023 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software

Eswar — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 10:20:40 +0000

The CVE MITRE foundation has released the list of “On the Cusp” in which many of the CWEs (Common Weakness Enumerations) have increased as well as decreased in their rankings between 2022 and 2023. CVE releases the top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses which helps organizations to mitigate software security risks. However, exploitable vulnerabilities beyond […]

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12 Norway Government Ministries were Targeted in a Cyberattack

Eswar — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 13:40:14 +0000

According to recent reports, twelve government ministries in Norway have been targeted by cyber-attacks. The most recent attack was aimed at Norway’s public sector, and investigations are currently ongoing. Norway has been Europe’s largest gas supplier after Russia had a drop in the supply. Norway has also become Western Europe’s largest oil exporter. The cyber […]

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Critical Zyxel Firewall Injection Flaw Exploited to Conduct DDoS Attacks

Sujatha — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 12:00:28 +0000

Increased botnet activity targeting vulnerability(CVE-2023-28771) in Zyxel devices has become a major concern to its users. This vulnerability lets the unauthorized attacker execute the arbitrary code by sending a specifically crafted packet to the targeted device. Since CISA added this vulnerability to the Known Exploited vulnerability, the surge of the attack has increased, and the […]

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