> 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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Credit-card fraud gangs, which are cashing in on $24 billion a year, are now offering online e-learning courses for would-be criminals.
Latest crackdown on Uyghurs in the name of anti-terrorism.
Compliance and regulation and the unpredictable behavior of employees have the biggest impact on data security, according to research
Teachers, students and industry players urged to register interest
Witness protection scheme participants, elite military operatives and more have info exposed
ESET said that it can send a fully featured backdoor, and perform brute-force attacks on Joomla and WordPress panels.
The hack on Qatari state websites that has resulted in a diplomatic rift in the Persian Gulf came from the Emirates.
Microsoft is using the lawsuit to dismantle big swathes of Fancy Bear's infrastructure.
Phishers look to harvest details from prospective international students
Underground criminal economy was responsible for the trading 350 000+ illicit commodities
Biometric Log-Ins raise security fears after Samsung system was cracked
Atlanta court sends down Russian cyber-criminal known as “Kolypto”
The personnel that coordinates cyber initiatives with US allies
will lose direct access to Tillerson, according to sources.
The attack chain involves whaling, digital certificate factoring and the Inexsmar malware.
Millennials are the worst offenders, according to a SecureAuth/Wakefield survey.
Hackers could take full control of device - changing pace, direction or bringing it to a halt
Decision makers in the UK, US, Australia and Germany are taking action after the global ransomware campaign
Hackers stole and illegally redistributed software used in ammunition design
A third-party toolkit downloaded millions of times has spread the flaw to thousands of devices.
The company’s crowdfunding page was hacked during a token sale event to redirect payments to the bad guys.