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At Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Email Software

Krebs on Security

The espionage group is exploiting four newly-discovered flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server email software, and has seeded hundreds of thousands of victim organizations worldwide with tools that give the attackers total, remote control over affected systems. based Volexity for reporting the vulnerabilities.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #21 [Double Trouble] 78% of Ransomware Victims Face Multiple Extortions in Scary Trend

KnowBe4

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #21 | May 23rd, 2023 [Double Trouble] 78% of Ransomware Victims Face Multiple Extortions in Scary Trend New data sheds light on how likely your organization will succumb to a ransomware attack, whether you can recover your data, and what's inhibiting a proper security posture. This puts your network in jeopardy!

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SHARED INTEL: How ‘memory attacks’ and ‘firmware spoilage’ circumvent perimeter defenses

The Last Watchdog

These happen to represent two prime examples of cyber attack vectors that continue to get largely overlooked by traditional cybersecurity defenses. Bloomberg broke a huge story about how China managed to slip compromised firmware into the production line of several plants producing Supermicro motherboards. percent from 2018.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #25 [Fingerprints All Over] Stolen Credentials Are the No. 1 Root Cause of Data Breaches

KnowBe4

1 Root Cause of Data Breaches Verizon's DBIR always has a lot of information to unpack, so I'll continue my review by covering how stolen credentials play a role in attacks. As an example, in Basic Web Application Attacks, the use of stolen credentials was involved in 86% of attacks. With PhishER you can: NEW!

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

IT Governance

5,255,944,117 known records breached in 128 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 April 2024

IT Governance

16,482,365 known records breached in 240 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: unknown.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

IT Governance

67,273,297 known records breached in 130 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: at least 3.5