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China-linked APT group MirrorFace targets Japan

Security Affairs

Between 2019 and 2024, the MirrorFace group launched three cyber campaigns targeting Japanese think tanks, government, academia, and key industries. Campaign C (2024): Delivered malware (ANEL) via email links, targeting academia and think tanks, evolving to abuse Visual Studio Code. ” reads the report published by NPA.“This

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Top Cybersecurity Trends to Watch Out For in 2025

Centraleyes

Verizons Data Breach Investigations Report showed that 74% of security breaches involve a human element, with system administrators and developers accounting for most of these errors. In 2024, human-centric security strategies will become increasingly important.

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Story of the Year: global IT outages and supply chain attacks

SecureList

As part of Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2024, our “Story of the Year” centers on these pressing issues. We’ll begin by revisiting notable supply chain incidents from 2024, and then explore potential scenarios of more damaging cases and the ways we prepare for them. Let’s dive in! The Polyfill.io

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Outlaw cybergang attacking targets worldwide

SecureList

Analysis We started the analysis by gathering relevant evidence from a compromised Linux system. We identified an odd authorized SSH key for a user called suporte (in a Portuguese-speaking environment, this is an account typically used for administrative tasks in the operating system).

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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Krebs on Security

According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016.

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VulnRecap 2/26/24 – VMWare, Apple, ScreenConnect Face Risks

eSecurity Planet

February 19, 2024 Microsoft Exchange Servers Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation Attacks Type of vulnerability: Critical severity privilege escalation vulnerability. The problem: CVE-2024-21410 allows remote attackers to carry out NTLM relay attacks on Microsoft Exchange Servers, providing them with privileged access.

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Vulnerability Recap 7/15/24 – Industry Patches vs Flaw Exploits

eSecurity Planet

July 8, 2024 Four Unpatched Flaws Discovered in Gogs Type of vulnerability: Multiple, including argument injection and file deletion. The problem: Four unpatched security issues in Gogs, an open-source Git service, enable attackers to exploit three critical flaws ( CVE-2024-39930 , CVE-2024-39931 , CVE-2024-39932 ; CVSS: 9.9)