Recent Security News
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FBI: Critical infrastructure menaced by spike in ransomware
March 6, 2024 at 03:55PM The FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report reveals over $12.5 billion in digital crime losses. With 880,418 complaints, representing a 10 percent increase, the monetary loss rose by 22 percent. Notably, only 15 percent of fraud victims report crimes, and ransomware infections and investment scams were prominent, with…
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Hackers impersonate U.S. government agencies in BEC attacks
March 6, 2024 at 03:41PM TA4903, a gang of hackers specializing in business email compromise attacks, has been impersonating U.S. government entities to carry out malicious activities through fake bidding processes. Proofpoint has been tracking their campaign, noting intensified activities since mid-2023 and a shift to impersonating small businesses. They pose a significant threat and…
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Patch Now: Apple Zero-Day Exploits Bypass Kernel Security
March 6, 2024 at 02:26PM Apple has released emergency security updates to fix two critical iOS zero-day vulnerabilities, allowing cyberattackers to compromise iPhone users at the kernel level. The memory-corruption bugs, CVE-2024-23225 and CVE-2024-23296, enable threat actors to bypass kernel memory protections. Users are urged to update their devices to versions iOS 17.4, iPadOS 17.4,…
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Spoofed Zoom, Google & Skype Meetings Spread Corporate RATs
March 6, 2024 at 01:42PM A threat actor is leveraging fake Skype, Google Meet, and Zoom meetings to distribute malware targeting Android and Windows users. This campaign, discovered in December, poses a significant cybersecurity threat. By mimicking legitimate URLs and hosting on a single IP address, the attackers are successfully distributing malicious payloads, emphasizing the…