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  • "Serious Vulnerability Patched in Veeam Data Backup Solution"
    Veeam recently announced patches for a severe vulnerability in its Backup & Replication solution that could lead to the exposure of credentials.  A backup solution for virtual environments, Veeam Backup & Replication, supports virtual…
  • "Researchers Take a Step Towards Turning Interactions That Normally Ruin Quantum Information into a Way of Protecting It"
    Researchers have discovered a method for predicting the behavior of many-body quantum systems that are coupled to their environment. The study demonstrates a method for protecting quantum information in quantum devices, which is essential for the…
  • "White House Allocates $3.1bn to Cybersecurity in New Budget"
    The White House has recently allocated a total of $3.1bn to cybersecurity infrastructure in its latest budget report.  The document shows $145m of this figure will go toward making the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) more…
  • "AT&T Vendor Data Breach Exposed 9 Million Customer Accounts"
    AT&T customer data was exposed in January through a third-party vendor that had been hacked.  The company noted that the breach affected around nine million customer accounts.  The breached data included basic personal information but no…
  • "Cerebral Informing 3.1 Million Individuals of Inadvertent Data Exposure"
    Emotional health care provider Cerebral is informing over 3.1 million individuals that their protected health information (PHI) might have been inadvertently exposed via third party tracking technologies on its platforms.  Cerebral noted that it has…
  • "Acronis Clarifies Hack Impact Following Data Leak"
    Swiss data protection firm Acronis has clarified that a single customer’s account has been compromised after a hacker leaked gigabytes of information allegedly stolen from the company.   On a popular cybercrime forum, a hacker recently announced…
  • "Alleged Seller of NetWire RAT Arrested in Croatia"
    As part of a global law enforcement operation, federal authorities in Los Angeles successfully seized a domain used by cybercriminals to distribute the NetWire Remote Access Trojan (RAT). The NetWire RAT enabled cybercriminals to take control of infected…
  • "Akamai Mitigates Record-Breaking 900Gbps DDoS Attack in Asia"
    Akamai mitigated the largest Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack ever launched against a customer in the Asia-Pacific region. DDoS is an attack that delivers a high volume of garbage requests to a targeted server, therefore depleting its capacity…
  • "Xenomorph Android Banking Trojan Returns with a New and More Powerful Variant"
    ThreatFabric's most recent research reveals that a new variant of the Android banking Trojan known as Xenomorph has been seen in the wild. Hadoken Security Group, the threat actor behind the operation, dubbed the updated version "Xenomorph 3rd generation…
  • "IceFire Ransomware Portends a Broader Shift From Windows to Linux"
    Hackers have launched the IceFire ransomware against Linux enterprise networks, a notable change for malware that was once exclusive to Windows. According to a report by SentinelOne, this may reflect an emerging trend. Recently, ransomware actors have…
  • "5 Best Practices from Industry for Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture"
    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have detailed five zero trust best practices. When considering going through a zero trust transformation, it is crucial to develop and maintain a comprehensive inventory of Data, Applications, Assets, and…
  • "SAFECOM and NCSWIC Release LLA and LLE: Are You Really Secure?"
    The US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is bringing attention to whether there is true security when using a Land Mobile Radio (LMR). Most Project 25 (P25) radio systems include built-in safeguards,…