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Akira ransomware operation's massive remote encryption attack against an industrial organization in June has been circumvented with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint's user containment functionality, according to The Hacker News.

Cofense researchers say new attacks with LinkedIn Smart Links target user email credentials mostly in the financial and manufacturing sectors.

Here’s a three-step approach any company could adopt for managing the current crisis in the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Israel.

Vulnerable Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server instances have been targeted by Chinese state-backed threat operation Storm-0062, also known as DarkShadow and Oro0lxy, in ongoing attacks exploiting a zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-22515, since Sept. 14, or three weeks prior to the bug's disclosure, SecurityWeek reports.

Malicious code execution and data compromise are possible with the exploitation of several high-severity bugs impacting ConnectedIO's ER2000 edge routers, The Hacker News reports.

Significantly more phishing scams involving the spoofing of the U.S. Postal Service and postal services in other countries, including Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile, Finland, Australia, and the Netherlands, aimed at exfiltrating personal and financial information have emerged in recent weeks, according to KrebsonSecurity.

More than 70,000 low-cost Android smartphones, tablets, and connected TV devices from one or more Chinese manufacturers have been compromised by the Badbox cybercriminal operation with the Triada malware prior to being sold to consumers, reports SecurityWeek.