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Threat landscape for industrial automation systems, Q1 2024

SecureList

Global statistics Statistics across all threats In the first quarter of 2024, the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked decreased by 0.3 In the first quarter of 2024, the percentage of ICS computers on which threats from various sources were blocked decreased for every major source. in Africa to 11.5%

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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.

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New Apple Zero-Days Exploited to Target Egyptian ex-MP with Predator Spyware

The Hacker News

The three zero-day flaws addressed by Apple on September 21, 2023, were leveraged as part of an iPhone exploit chain in an attempt to deliver a spyware strain called Predator targeting former Egyptian member of parliament Ahmed Eltantawy between May and September 2023.

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Recently patched Apple and Chrome zero-days exploited to infect devices in Egypt with Predator spyware

Security Affairs

Citizen Lab and Google’s TAG revealed that the three recently patched Apple zero-days were used to install Cytrox Predator spyware. citizenlab in coordination with @Google ’s TAG team found that former Egyptian MP Ahmed Eltantawy was targeted with Cytrox’s #Predator #spyware through links sent via SMS and WhatsApp.

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Google fixed two actively exploited Pixel vulnerabilities

Security Affairs

Two issues fixed by the IT giant, tracked as CVE-2024-29745 and CVE-2024-29748, are actively exploited in the wild. ” reads the Android Security Bulletin—April 2024. ” reads the Android Security Bulletin—April 2024. Google addressed 28 vulnerabilities in Android and 25 flaws in Pixel devices.

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Apple emergency security updates fix two new iOS zero-days

Security Affairs

Apple released emergency security updates to address two iOS zero-day vulnerabilities, respectively tracked as CVE-2024-23225 and CVE-2024-23296, that were exploited in attacks against iPhone devices. CVE-2024-23225 is a Kernel memory corruption flaw, the company addressed it with improved validation. ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 462 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Judge ordered NSO Group to hand over the Pegasus spyware code to WhatsApp Cybercrime BlackCat Ransomware Affiliate TTPs American Express credit cards EXPOSED in third-party vendor data breach – account numbers and names among details accessed in hack LockBit 3.0’S

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