Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) for a 2018 data breach that impacted millions of users in the bloc, in what’s the latest financial hit the company has taken for flouting stringent privacy laws. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) said the […]
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Threat actors are attempting to exploit a recently disclosed security flaw impacting Apache Struts that could pave the way for remote code execution. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-53677, carries a CVSS score of 9.5 out of 10.0, indicating critical severity. The vulnerability shares similarities with another critical bug the project maintainers addressed in December 2023 […]
Hackers are abusing legitimate Windows utilities to target Thai law enforcement with a novel malware that is a mix of sophistication and amateurishness. Go to Source Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer
The cyberattack impacts at least 1.4 million patients, as tranches of highly sensitive personal, medical, and financial data fall into the hands of cyber crooks who have everything they need to carry out convincing social engineering and fraud attacks. Go to Source Author: Tara Seals, Managing Editor, News, Dark Reading
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A new social engineering campaign has leveraged Microsoft Teams as a way to facilitate the deployment of a known malware called DarkGate. “An attacker used social engineering via a Microsoft Teams call to impersonate a user’s client and gain remote access to their system,” Trend Micro researchers Catherine Loveria, Jovit Samaniego, and Gabriel Nicoleta said. […]
Three vulnerabilities in the service’s Apache Airflow integration could have allowed attackers to take shadow administrative control over an enterprise cloud infrastructure, gain access to and exfiltrate data, and deploy malware. Go to Source Author: Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer
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Getting inside the mind of a threat actor can help security pros understand how they operate and what they’re looking for — in essence, what makes a soft target. Go to Source Author: Ben Barrontine