Finally, in the enterprise security news, Not much funding this week, but Netskope raises $400M, and Hack the Box raises $55M! Also, what went wrong with IronNet? The Open Source Index highlights popular security projects, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 have been put out to pasture, Predictions about personal cybersecurity, Cloud security trends, The on...
Vidar info-stealer deployed in widespread AnyDesk spoofing campaign More than 1,300 domains have been leveraged in an ongoing widespread AnyDesk impersonation campaign aimed at distributing the Vidar information-stealing malware, BleepingComputer reports.
BleepingComputer reports that the Lorenz ransomware operation exploited a critical Mitel telephony infrastructure vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-29499, to obtain initial access to the victim's network five months prior to commencing lateral movement, data theft, and system encryption activities.
Then, in the Security News: In the security news: Do not panic about RSA encyption, the age old debate: Security vs. Compliance, Cold River, and no not the vodka although it has to do with Russia, the exploit party is happening and someone invited vulnerable drivers, ChatGPT being used to deploy malware, chip vulnerabilities impacting ARM: what you...
SecurityWeek reports that many of the over 12 new macOS malware families identified in 2022, which is an increase from eight new malware families discovered in 2021, were associated with China.
Information stealers are being distributed by six malicious Python Package Index packages including discord-dev, discorder, easytimestamp, pyrologin, pythonstyles, and pyrologin all of which have already been removed, The Hacker News reports.
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