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Today's cyber news highlights several significant threats and trends. Microsoft 365 is experiencing a widespread outage affecting services like Outlook and Teams, causing operational disruptions. In vulnerability news, the PHP2Shell exploit was leveraged in attacks against Check Point Gateways, while a new zero-day vulnerability in N-central named 4EverAble2Shell was exploited shortly after its proof of concept was published. Additionally, North Korean hackers have reportedly stole over $400 million in cryptocurrency through sophisticated social engineering tactics involving fake video calls. The FBI has seized $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency linked to these North Korean operations. On the patching front, Ubuntu has released updates to address various vulnerabilities, including server impersonation and server-side request forgery.
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Some rather amusing news comes our way today courtesy of Symantec, and it does not bode well for the creative prowess of spammers. It appears that one of May’s hottest spam trends was blank email subject lines according to the company’s latest “State of Spam & Phishing” report.
If you're a World Cup fan, then you had better be ultra-careful on which links you click through to, as it seems that cybercrminals are ramping up their malware and infected emails to tap into fan's interest in the World Cup.
Irish businesses which lose the personal data of more than 100 people will soon be required to report the data security breach to their country's data commissioner.
India is appointing auditors to check that all telecoms equipment imported from China is free of software designed to monitor data transmissions.
Reports from Japan are coming in that Olympus has been shipping one of its digital cameras – the Stylus Tough 6010 – with a virus infection on the unit's internal memory card.
UK Apple users will be able to purchase the iPhone 4 from O2 from 24 June. The latest Apple smartphone offers multi-tasking and is claimed to be the thinnest smartphone in the world, with the highest resolution display ever built into a phone.
India is appointing auditors to check that all telecoms equipment imported from China is free of software designed to monitor data transmissions.
Reports from Japan are coming in that Olympus has been shipping one of its digital cameras - the Stylus Tough 6010 - with a virus infection on the unit's internal memory card.
Research just published claims that one in 10 IT professionals have admitted to cheating on their IT audits, whilst a third of respondents also confessed to only auditing their firewall systems once every five years.
The latest monthly statistics on security threats from Sunbelt Software claim there has been a significant increase in Trojan activity, as well as malware designed to channel fake anti-virus products onto a user's machine.
Wolfgang Kandek, the chief technology officer of Qualys, has warned Windows XP users that Microsoft's technical support for service pack 2 (SP2) of the popular operating system will cease on July 13. As a result of this, he advises users to install XP SP3 or upgrade to Windows 7.
HP is investing $1bn in technology for its services business as its focus moves away from integrating EDS to growth.
HP is investing $1bn in technology for its services business as its focus moves away from integrating EDS to growth.
Wolfgang Kandek, the chief technology officer of Qualys, has warned Windows XP users that Microsoft's technical support for service pack 2 (SP2) of the popular operating system will cease on July 13. As a result of this, he advises users to install XP SP3 or upgrade to Windows 7.
A Cincinnati area resident will face charges for aiding an international fake anti-virus scheme. Also indicted were two foreign-based co-conspirators.
Consultancy Deloitte has acquired security specialist IM Global to address the fears of its corporate customers.
Research just reveals claims that 41% of UK managers and finance professionals believe it would be possible for them to commit fraud in their organisations.
It's been something of a busy week for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks - as well as CNN reporting that Media Temple, the web hosting provider for a range of blue chip companies, was hit with a sophisticated attack, the Associated Press reported that a Nebraska man has been sentenced to...
Fifa has unveiled its Fifa.com supercomputer site, which will support online access to the world cup.
Aza Raskin, a well-known US interface design expert and creative lead on Mozilla's Firefox browser software, has revealed a new type of phishing attack known as `tab napping.'