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Phobos Ransomware Family Expands With New FAUST Variant
FortiGuard said the variant was found in an Office document using a VBA script Read More
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US Senator Exposes NSA Purchase of Americans’ Internet Records
The call follows an FTC order saying data brokers must secure consent before selling user data Read More
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Trickbot malware developer jailed for five years
A 40-year-old Russian man has been sentenced to five years and four months in prison by a US court, for his involvement in the Trickbot gang that deployed ransomware and stole money and sensitive information from businesses around the world. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Read More
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Nigerian ‘Yahoo Boys’ Behind Social Media Sextortion Surge in the US
Nigeria-based cybercriminals known as Yahoo Boys are the main drivers of a financial sextortion increase on TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat, targeting English-speaking teenagers Read More
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Microsoft Provides Defense Guidance After Nation-State Compromise
Microsoft said the Russian nation-state group Midnight Blizzard obfuscated its attack through the use of an OAuth application Read More
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Microsoft Executives Hacked
Microsoft is reporting that a Russian intelligence agency—the same one responsible for SolarWinds—accessed the email system of the company’s executives. Beginning in late November 2023, the threat actor used a password spray attack to compromise a legacy non-production test tenant account and gain a foothold, and then used the account’s permissions to access a very…
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Case study: Vertek’s USM Anywhere MDR helps larger auto dealership in the northeast improve their Cybersecurity posture
The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. Challenges A larger auto dealership in the northeast faced a number of cybersecurity challenges, including: Lack of resources: The dealership did not have…
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Dark Web Drugs Vendor Forfeits $150m After Guilty Plea
Drug trafficker Banmeet Singh made $150m in cryptocurrency from dark web sales Read More
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CI/CD at Risk as Exploits Released For Critical Jenkins Bug
Customers are urged to patch now after exploits are released for critical vulnerability in Jenkins Read More
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Top 3 Cybersecurity Trends for SME Business Leaders
Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Cynet. Thanks to the team there for their support. As Cynet’s COO, my team and I get to work closely with risk management executives at small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) around the world. In this piece, I’ll distill insights from our collaboration into three salient…