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​Artivion, a leading manufacturer of heart surgery medical devices, has disclosed a November 21 ransomware attack that disrupted its operations and forced it to take some systems offline. […]

The threat actors linked to the Black Basta ransomware have been observed switching up their social engineering tactics, distributing a different set of payloads such as Zbot and DarkGate since early October 2024.
“Users within the target environment will be email bombed by the threat actor, which is often achieved by signing up the user’s email to numerous mailing lists simultaneously,” Rapid7

Details have emerged about a now-patched security flaw in the DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that, if successfully exploited, could permit a bad actor to take control of a victim’s account by means of a prompt injection attack.
Security researcher Johann Rehberger, who has chronicled many a prompt injection attack targeting various AI tools, found that providing the input “Print

​The Termite ransomware gang has officially claimed responsibility for the November breach of software as a service (SaaS) provider Blue Yonder. […]

The European Union has enacted two new laws to bolster its cybersecurity defenses and coordination mechanisms.

Storm-1811’s latest help desk scam begins with email bombing leading to IT impersonation and ends with Black Basta ransomware 

Russian authorities have sentenced the leader of the criminal group behind the now-closed dark web platform Hydra Market to life in prison. […]

Over a dozen malicious Android apps identified on the Google Play Store that have been collectively downloaded over 8 million times contain malware known as SpyLoan, according to new findings from McAfee Labs.
“These PUP (potentially unwanted programs) applications use social engineering tactics to trick users into providing sensitive information and granting extra mobile app permissions, which

The Iranian threat actor known as TA455 has been observed taking a leaf out of a North Korean hacking group’s playbook to orchestrate its own version of the Dream Job campaign targeting the aerospace industry by offering fake jobs since at least September 2023.
“The campaign distributed the SnailResin malware, which activates the SlugResin backdoor,” Israeli cybersecurity company ClearSky said

Microsoft on Tuesday revealed that two security flaws impacting Windows NT LAN Manager (NTLM) and Task Scheduler have come under active exploitation in the wild.
The security vulnerabilities are among the 90 security bugs the tech giant addressed as part of its Patch Tuesday update for November 2024. Of the 90 flaws, four are rated Critical, 85 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in