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Portugal Media Giant Impresa Crippled by Ransomware Attack

The websites of the company and the Expresso newspaper, as well as all of its SIC TV channels remained offline Tuesday after the New Year’s weekend attack. Media giant Impresa, which owns the largest ...
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Phishing Attacks Skyrocket with Microsoft and Facebook as Most Abused Brands

Instances of phishing attacks leveraging the Microsoft brand increased 266 percent in Q1 compared to the year prior. The bloom is back on phishing attacks with criminals doubling down on fake messages ...
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Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise

Lockbit is by far this summer’s most prolific ransomware group, trailed by two offshoots of the Conti group. After a recent dip, ransomware attacks are back on the rise. According to data released by ...
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FBI: Rise in Business Email-based Attacks is a $43B Headache

A huge spike in fraudulent activities related to attacks leveraging business email accounts is a billion-dollar-problem. The FBI warned the global cost of business email compromise (BEC) attacks is ...
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U.S. Water Utilities Prime Cyberattack Target, Experts

Environmentalists and policymakers warn water treatment plants are ripe for attack. Industrial controls governing water-related U.S. critical infrastructure are woefully under-estimated as cyberattack ...
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Canopy Parental Control App Wide Open to Unpatched XSS Bugs

The possible cyberattacks include disabling monitoring, location-tracking of children and malicious redirects of parent-console users. Canopy, a parental control app that offers a range of features ...
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Moobot Botnet Chews Up Hikvision Surveillance Systems

Attackers are milking unpatched Hikvision video systems to drop a DDoS botnet, researchers warned. Although a patch was released in September, any still-vulnerable Hikvision IP Network Video Recorder ...
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Log4J-Related RCE Flaw in H2 Database Earns Critical Rating

Critical flaw in the H2 open-source Java SQL database are similar to the Log4J vulnerability, but do not pose a widespread threat. Researchers discovered a bug related to the Log4J logging library ...
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1M Stolen Credit Cards Hit Dark Web for Free

A dump of hundreds of thousands of active accounts is aimed at promoting AllWorld.Cards, a recently launched cybercriminal site for selling payment credentials online. Threat actors have leaked 1 ...
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Zero Day in Ubiquitous Apache Log4j Tool Under Active Attack

The Log4Shell vulnerability critically threatens anybody using the popular open-source Apache Struts framework and could lead to a “Mini internet meltdown soonish.” An excruciating, easily exploited ...
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Malicious npm Code Packages Built for Hijacking Discord Servers

The lurking code-bombs lift Discord tokens from users of any applications that pulled the packages into their code bases. A series of malicious packages in the Node.js package manager (npm) code ...
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Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras

Tens of thousands of cameras have failed to patch a critical, 11-month-old CVE, leaving thousands of organizations exposed. New research indicates that over 80,000 Hikvision surveillance cameras in ...