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LW ROUNDTABLE — How 2024’s cyber threats will transform the security landscape in 2025

The Last Watchdog

Continuing our look back at 2024, part two of Last Watchdogs year-ender roundtable turns its focus to emerging threats vs. evolving defense tactics. With adversaries destroying backups to increase extortion payouts, recovery will grow harder and slower, emphasizing the need for stronger security controls and architecture.

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APT trends report Q3 2024

SecureList

This is our latest roundup, covering activity we observed during Q3 2024. Earlier in 2024, a secure USB drive was found to be compromised and malicious code was injected into the access management software installed on the USB drive. After that, we did not observe any new activity related to this actor until mid-July 2024.

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Patch now! New Chrome update for two critical vulnerabilities

Malwarebytes

Technical details One of the vulnerabilities was reported to Google by Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR), which reported the issue on October 23, 2024. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-10487 , can be used by cybercriminals as a drive-by download.

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Google fixed a critical vulnerability in Chrome browser

Security Affairs

Google addressed a critical vulnerability in its Chrome browser, tracked as CVE-2024-10487, which was reported by Apple. Google has patched a critical Chrome vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-10487, reported by Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) on October 23, 2024. 92 for Windows, Mac and 130.0.6723.91

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NVIDIA GTC Keynote: Blackwell Architecture Will Accelerate AI Products in Late 2024

Tech Republic Security

Developers can now take advantage of NVIDIA NIM packages to deploy enterprise generative AI, said NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.

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Palo Alto Networks warns that CVE-2025-0111 flaw is actively exploited in attacks

Security Affairs

Palo Alto Networks warns that threat actors are chaining the vulnerability CVE-2025-0111 with two other vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-0108 with CVE-2024-9474 , to compromise PAN-OS firewalls. Attackers are chaining them with the CVE-2025-0108 with CVE-2024-9474 issues. In November 2024, the U.S.

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 — and what’s ahead in 2024 ( part 1)

The Last Watchdog

What should I be most concerned about – and focus on – in 2024? In 2024, we will see more targeted, sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) attacks, including VIP impersonation, vendor email compromise (VEC), and autonomous agents used for malicious purposes. The comments we received were uniformly insightful and helpful.