Pretexting definition Pretextingis form of social engineering in which an attacker fabricates a story to convince a victim to give up valuable information or access to a service or system. The distinguishing feature of a pretexting attack is that the scammer comes up with a story — or pretext— to fool the victim. The pretext generally aims to […]
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Ivanti has revealed that a critical security flaw impacting Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) has come under active exploitation in the wild. The new vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-8963, carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of a maximum of 10.0. It was “incidentally addressed” by the company as part of CSA 4.6 Patch 519 […]
How the Kimsuky nation-state group and other threat actors are exploiting poor email security — and what organizations can do to defend themselves. Go to Source Author: Dr. Sean Costigan
Two suspects were arrested in Miami this week and charged with conspiracy to steal and launder over $230 million in cryptocurrency using crypto exchanges and mixing services. […] Go to Source Author: Sergiu Gatlan
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has added five flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, among which is a remote code execution (RCE) flaw impacting Apache HugeGraph-Server. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
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Company urges organizations using self-hosting GitLab instances to apply updates for CVE-2024-45409 as soon as possible. Go to Source Author: Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer
Microsoft is testing a new feature in the Edge browser called the “extension performance detector,” which warns you when browser extensions cause performance issues on web pages you visit. […] Go to Source Author: Mayank Parmar
Inc ransomware — one of the most popular among cybercriminals today — meets healthcare, the industry sector most targeted by RaaS. Go to Source Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer