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"Microsoft Bug Bounty Payouts Increased to $16.6 Million in Past Year"Between 2020 and 2023, Microsoft says it paid approximately $13 million annually through bug bounty programs. However, between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024, the amount increased to $16.6 million for the past year.
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"Hacker Group FIN7 Is Selling EDR Evasion Tools to Other Cyber Criminals"The Russian Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group "FIN7" is selling "AvNeutralizer," also known as "AuKill," on Russian-speaking hacking forums. With AvNeutralizer, hackers can tamper with security solutions and launch their own attacks.
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"Surge in Magniber Ransomware Attacks Impact Home Users Worldwide"The "Magniber" ransomware campaign is encrypting home users' devices, demanding thousand-dollar ransom payments from victims. Magniber emerged in 2017 as a successor to the "Cerber" ransomware operation.
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"OneBlood Investigates Cyber Attack, Southeastern Locations Affected"A cyberattack on the blood bank OneBlood has impacted over 250 hospitals. While some are still able to collect, test, and distribute blood, their operations have been heavily diminished.
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"Russia's 'Fighting Ursa' APT Uses Car Ads to Install HeadLace Malware"The Russian threat actor "Fighting Ursa," also known as "APT28," "Fancy Bear," and "Sofacy," has used car ads as a lure to distribute the "HeadLace" backdoor malware.
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"Researchers Uncover Flaws in Windows Smart App Control and SmartScreen"Researchers at Elastic Security Labs have discovered design flaws in Microsoft's Windows Smart App Control and SmartScreen.
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"86% of Firms Identify Unknown Cyber-Risks as Top Concern"Eighty-six percent of firms say unknown organizational cyber risks are a top concern, according to the "Critical Start 2024 Cyber Risk Landscape Peer Report." The report found that 66 percent of businesses have limited insight into their cyber ri
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"Chinese Hackers Compromised an ISP to Deliver Malicious Software Updates"According to researchers at Volexity, the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group "StormBamboo" compromised an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to poison Domain Name System (DNS) queries and deliver malware to organizations.
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"New SLUBStick Attack Makes Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities More Dangerous"Researchers from the Graz University of Technology have published a paper on "SLUBStick," a new Linux kernel exploitation technique that makes heap vulnerabilities increasingly dangerous.
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"Attacks on Bytecode Interpreters Conceal Malicious Injection Activity"According to a team of researchers from the University of Tokyo and NTT Security, attackers can conceal their malicious injection activity by inserting commands into the machine code stored in memory by the software interpreters that many programming l
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"Cloudflare Tunnels Abused for Malware Delivery"According to Proofpoint, threat actors have been using Cloudflare Tunnels to deliver different Remote Access Trojan (RAT) families.
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"Mirai Botnet targeting OFBiz Servers Vulnerable to Directory Traversal"The SANS Internet Storm Center reported that new Mirai botnet variants are targeting the open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) framework OFBiz. The Apache Foundation supports OFBiz, a Java-based framework for creating ERP applications.