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Ransomware attack hits leading heart surgery device maker

By External News-Site / December 9, 2024

​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. […]

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Microsoft NTLM Zero-Day to Remain Unpatched Until April

By External News-Site / December 9, 2024

The second zero-day vulnerability found in Windows NTLM in the past two months paves the way for relay attacks and credential theft. Microsoft has no patch, but released updated NTLM cyberattack mitigation advice.

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Black Basta Ransomware Evolves with Email Bombing, QR Codes, and Social Engineering

By External News-Site / December 9, 2024

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

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Researchers Uncover Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities in DeepSeek and Claude AI

By External News-Site / December 9, 2024

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

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Blue Yonder SaaS giant breached by Termite ransomware gang

By External News-Site / December 6, 2024

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

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EU enacts new laws to strengthen cybersecurity defenses and coordination

By External News-Site / December 3, 2024

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

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Storm-1811 exploits RMM tools to drop Black Basta ransomware

By External News-Site / December 2, 2024

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

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Interpol Cyber-Fraud Action Nets More Than 5K Arrests

By External News-Site / December 2, 2024

Chalk up another win for global cooperation among law enforcement, this time targeting seven types of cyber fraud, including voice phishing and business email compromise.

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Russia sentences Hydra dark web market leader to life in prison

By External News-Site / December 2, 2024

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

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Incident Response Playbooks: Are You Prepared?

By External News-Site / December 2, 2024

The playbooks that accompany your incident response plan provide efficiency and consistency in responses, help reduce downtime and dwell time, and can be a cost-saving and reputational-saving measure for your organization.

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