> TODAY'S SUMMARY (89 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape reveals several significant threats and trends. A major incident at BAE Systems has disrupted the US bankruptcy court system, halting official notices since October 9. Burger King Japan has reported a data breach affecting over 11 million customers, while CenterPoint Energy disclosed a breach impacting more than a million Texans. Notably, ransomware gangs are increasingly resorting to threats of physical violence to extort payments, and Chinese state-sponsored attackers exploited a newly identified zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust software for espionage. Additionally, vulnerabilities in various platforms, including Microsoft Office and Debian, have raised concerns about potential remote code execution and privilege escalation risks.
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Unauthorized data exfiltration may have hit many more
Malware uses deep link URI of Uber app to appear legitimate
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Ivanti research finds security gaps persist on the endpoint
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Trend Micro research identifies more IoT headaches for admins
Government blocks services as violent protests continue
A file containing email addresses/username and password combinations for Ancestry.com, as well as user names, has been exposed.
The working code for the Mirai variant has been made free on Pastebin.
Federal domain adoption of the DMARC email security scheme in the US increased 38% in 30 days.
Hackers stole thousands of Bitcoin from NiceHash last month
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Another government department falls foul of the Data Protection Act
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