Vulnerabilities in Swiss E-Voting System Earn Researchers Big Bounties
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French Ministry of Justice Targeted in Ransomware Attack
Cybercriminals claim to have breached systems belonging to France’s Ministry of Justice and they are threatening to make public the files stolen from the government organization. read more Source: Security Week
Continue ReadingMicrosoft Saw Record-Breaking DDoS Attacks Exceeding 3 Tbps
Microsoft this week reported mitigating several massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at its customers last year. read more Source: Security Week
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White House Publishes Federal Zero Trust Strategy
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Continue ReadingNew Open Source Tool Helps Identify EtherNet/IP Stacks for ICS Research, Analysis
Industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty on Wednesday announced a new open source tool designed for identifying EtherNet/IP stacks. According to the company, the new “EtherNet/IP & CIP Stack Detector” tool can be useful to security researchers, operational technology (OT) engineers, and asset owners. read more Source: Security Week
Continue ReadingApple Pays Out $100,000 for Webcam, User Account Hacking Exploit
A security researcher claims to have received a significant bug bounty from Apple for reporting a series of Safari and macOS vulnerabilities that could have been exploited to hijack a user’s online accounts and webcam. read more Source: Security Week
Continue ReadingPolkit Vulnerability Provides Root Privileges on Linux Systems
Qualys security researchers warn of an easily exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability in polkit’s pkexec, a SUID-root program found in all Linux distributions. read more Source: Security Week
Continue ReadingSonicWall Customers Warned of Possible Attacks Exploiting Recent Vulnerability
Hackers have started targeting a recently patched vulnerability affecting SonicWall’s Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances, and while the attacks observed to date do not appear to have been successful, that could soon change. read more Source: Security Week
Continue ReadingNew macOS Malware 'DazzleSpy' Used in Hong Kong Attacks
A recent campaign targeting individuals in Hong Kong has leveraged at least two pieces of malware designed to target macOS systems. read more Source: Security Week
Continue ReadingHunters Raises $68 Million for Its SecOps Platform
Security operations center (SOC) platform provider Hunters on Tuesday announced raising another $68 million, which brings the total investment secured by the firm to $118 million. read more Source: Security Week
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