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US Gov sanctioned Intellexa Consortium individuals and entities behind Predator spyware attacks

Security Affairs

government sanctioned two individuals and five entities linked to the development and distribution of the Predator spyware used to target Americans. The Department of the Treasury warns that the proliferation of commercial spyware poses growing risks to the United States. The surveillance software was also used to spy on U.S.

Spyware 101
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Ransomware en masse on the wane: top threats inside web-phishing in H1 2020

Security Affairs

Ransomware , the headliner of the previous half-year, walked off stage: only 1 percent of emails analyzed by Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-GIB) contained this kind of malware. Another 17 percent contained downloaders, while backdoors and banking Trojans came third with a 16- and 15-percent shares, respectively.

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CISA adds Veritas Backup Exec flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Security Affairs

US CISA has added Veritas Backup Exec flaws, which were exploited in ransomware attacks, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The CVE-2023-26083 flaw in the Arm Mali GPU driver is chained with other issues to install commercial spyware, as reported by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) in a recent report.

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Cyber Security Roundup for May 2021

Security Boulevard

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, April 2021. The UK Security Service MI5 said 10,000 staff from every UK government department and from important UK industries have been lured by fake LinkedIn profiles.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 240

Security Affairs

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Boardriders and its subsidiarities QuikSilver and Billabong infected with ransomware. Major ASP.NET hosting provider SmarterASP hit by ransomware attack. Buran ransomware-as-a-service continues to improve. Mexican state-owned oil company Pemex hit by ransomware.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 301

Security Affairs

COMB breach: 3.2B COMB breach: 3.2B COMB breach: 3.2B

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 235

Security Affairs

US will help Baltic states to secure baltic energy grid. Developer hacked back Muhstik ransomware crew and released keys. MS October 2019 Patch Tuesday updates address 59 flaws. Users reported problems with patches for CVE-2019-1367 IE zero-day. iTunes Zero-Day flaw exploited by the gang behind BitPaymer ransomware.

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