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BleepingComputer reports that threat actors have been increasingly leveraging Silicon Valley Bank in suspicious domains, phishing campaigns, and business email compromise attacks since the collapse of the U.S. commercial bank on March 10 in an effort to facilitate money and account data theft, as well as malware infections.

BleepingComputer reports that government and government-related networks are being subjected to highly-targeted zero-day attacks leveraging a recently patched high-severity Fortinet FortiOS vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-41328, resulting in file and operating system corruption, as well as data loss.

Amazon's security camera firm Ring has been purported to be compromised by the ALPHV ransomware operation, also known as BlackCat, which has threatened to expose the stolen data, reports Motherboard.

The potential total loss from cybercrime in 2022 increased to over $10.2 billion from $6.9 billion in 2021, despite a 5% decrease in the number of complaints reported to the FBI.

Critical infrastructure entities gain CISA support to identify and patch known vulnerabilities.

Threat actors have been exploiting remote desktop program vulnerabilities to facilitate PlugX malware delivery, The Hacker News reports.

Vulnerable Oracle WebLogic servers are being subjected to cryptojacking attacks by the cryptomining operation 8220 Gang using the ScrubCrypt crypter, reports The Hacker News.