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THN Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools, and Practices (Nov 11 – Nov 17)

November 18, 2024

What do hijacked websites, fake job offers, and sneaky ransomware have in common? They’re proof that cybercriminals are finding smarter, sneakier ways to exploit both systems and people. This week…

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Beyond Compliance: The Advantage of Year-Round Network Pen Testing

November 18, 2024

IT leaders know the drill—regulators and cyber insurers demand regular network penetration testing to keep the bad guys out. But here’s the thing: hackers don’t wait around for compliance schedules.…

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Fake Discount Sites Exploit Black Friday to Hijack Shopper Information

November 18, 2024

A new phishing campaign is targeting e-commerce shoppers in Europe and the United States with bogus pages that mimic legitimate brands with the goal of stealing their personal information ahead…

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NSO Group Exploited WhatsApp to Install Pegasus Spyware Even After Meta’s Lawsuit

November 18, 2024

Legal documents released as part of an ongoing legal tussle between Meta’s WhatsApp and NSO Group have revealed that the Israeli spyware vendor used multiple exploits targeting the messaging app…

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Urgent: Critical WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Over 4 Million Sites

November 17, 2024

A critical authentication bypass vulnerability has been disclosed in the Really Simple Security (formerly Really Simple SSL) plugin for WordPress that, if successfully exploited, could grant an attacker to remotely…

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PAN-OS Firewall Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation – IoCs Released

November 16, 2024

Palo Alto Networks has released new indicators of compromise (IoCs) a day after the network security vendor confirmed that a new zero-day vulnerability impacting its PAN-OS firewall management interface has…

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Warning: DEEPDATA Malware Exploiting Unpatched Fortinet Flaw to Steal VPN Credentials

November 16, 2024

A threat actor known as BrazenBamboo has exploited an unresolved security flaw in Fortinet’s FortiClient for Windows to extract VPN credentials as part of a modular framework called DEEPDATA. Volexity,…

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Iranian Hackers Deploy WezRat Malware in Attacks Targeting Israeli Organizations

November 15, 2024

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new remote access trojan and information stealer used by Iranian state-sponsored actors to conduct reconnaissance of compromised endpoints and execute malicious commands. Cybersecurity…

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Master Certificate Management: Join This Webinar on Crypto Agility and Best Practices

November 15, 2024

In the fast-paced digital world, trust is everything—but what happens when that trust is disrupted? Certificate revocations, though rare, can send shockwaves through your operations, impacting security, customer confidence, and…

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Researchers Warn of Privilege Escalation Risks in Google’s Vertex AI ML Platform

November 15, 2024

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in Google’s Vertex machine learning (ML) platform that, if successfully exploited, could allow malicious actors to escalate privileges and exfiltrate models from the…

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