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  • "Hacked Data for 69K LimeVPN Users Up for Sale on Dark Web"

    According to researchers, the VPN provider known as LimeVPN has been hit with a data breach affecting 69,400 user records. Recently a hacker claimed to have stolen the company’s entire customer database before knocking its website offline. The stolen…

  • "Microsoft Reveals Authentication Failures, System Hijack Vulnerabilities in Netgear Routers"

    Microsoft's team of security researchers discovered three vulnerabilities in Netgear DGN-2200v1 series routers, running firmware before v1.0.0.60. The researchers have stressed that these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to roam freely through an…

  • "Malware Actors Have Begun Using AutoHotkey Scripts For Attacks"

    Living-off-the-Land (LotL) attacks involve the use of trusted pre-installed system tools to avoid installing foreign files or tools, thus allowing threat actors to hide their malicious activity. New LotL attacks have been overserved using AutoHotkey,…

  • "Business Professors Study Ideal Responses to Ransomware Attacks"

    Business professors and a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) are looking at how ransomware attacks, in some cases, can set organizations against the law enforcement agencies that are trying to protect them. Their study…

  • "Data Breach at Las Vegas Hospital"

    An investigation has been launched into a data breach that occurred in June at a hospital in Las Vegas. The University Medical Center (UMC) is a nonprofit public hospital affiliated with the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and operated by the…

  • "CISA Releases New Ransomware Self-Assessment Security Audit Tool"

    The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released the Ransomware Readiness Assessment (RRA), a new module for its Cyber Security Evaluation Tool (CSET). RRA is a security audit self-assessment tool for organizations that want to…

  • "High-Severity Vulnerabilities Found in Several Phoenix Contact Industrial Products"

    The Germany-based industrial solutions provider Phoenix Contact recently informed customers about ten vulnerabilities that have been identified across many of its products. Advisories published by Phoenix Contact and Germany's CERT VDE say the…

  • "IT, Healthcare, and Manufacturing Facing Most Phishing Attacks"

    Researchers at the email and collaboration security firm Avanan analyzed over 905 million emails for the 1H 2021 Global Phish Cyber Attack Report. The company discovered that their customers in the IT, healthcare, and manufacturing industries are most…

  • "End Users in the Dark About Latest Cyberthreats, Attacks"

    A survey was conducted by the IoT security firm Armis to which 2,000 employees across various industries responded. They were surveyed on their knowledge pertaining to current security events and best practices. The results from the survey show that…

  • "Data for 700M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale in Cyber-Underground"

    After 500 million LinkedIn enthusiasts were affected in a data-scraping incident in April, it's happened again. Researchers at Privacy Sharks discovered a new posting with 700 million LinkedIn records on a popular hacker forum called RaidForums. The…

  • "Major Threats to Cloud Infrastructure Security Include a Lack of Visibility And Inadequate IAM"

    Researchers at Ermetic conducted a new study where they surveyed 200 CISOs and other security decision-makers and found that nearly 60% of the participants consider lack of visibility as well as inadequate identity and access management a significant…

  • "New Two-Step Algorithm Could Prove 'a Paradigm Shift' in Cloud Data Confidentiality"

    Although cloud computing provides fast, easy-to-use computing and inexpensive data storage services, the cloud environment does come with data confidentiality risks. Cryptography is a mathematical technique that strengthens cloud computing security by…