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The world’s largest meat processing company has resumed most production after a weekend cyberattack, but experts say the vulnerabilities exposed by this attack and others are far from resolved.

Steamship Authority Hit by Cyberattack 

Cisco’s Talos threat intelligence and research unit on Wednesday disclosed the details of several SMB-related vulnerabilities patched recently by Apple in its macOS operating system.SMB, which stands for Server Message Block, is a protocol for sharing files, printers, and serial ports. Apple’s own SMB stack is called SMBX.

More than 17,000 websites are exposed to attacks targeting a critical zero-day vulnerability in the Fancy Product Designer WordPress plugin, the Wordfence team at WordPress security company Defiant warns.

Exploit acquisition firm Zerodium on Tuesday announced that it is offering $100,000 for severe vulnerabilities in Pidgin for Windows and Linux.

A high-severity vulnerability discovered recently in an open source library named Lasso has been found to impact products from Cisco and Akamai, as well as Linux distributions.

Industrial switches provided by several vendors are affected by the same vulnerabilities due to the fact that they share firmware made by Taiwan-based industrial networking solutions provider Korenix Technology.

The Justice Department said Tuesday that it has seized two domain names used in a cyberespionage campaign that targeted U.S. and foreign government agencies, think tanks and humanitarian groups.

A ransomware attack on the world’s largest meat processing company disrupted production around the world just weeks after a similar incident shut down a U.S. oil pipeline.

The ongoing multi-vendor investigations into the SolarWinds mega-hack took another twist this week with the discovery of new malware artifacts that could be used in future supply chain attacks.

Accellion failed to notify customers of a zero-day vulnerability in its file transfer application (FTA) and related cyber-attacks targeting the security flaw, according to a new report from professional services firm  KPMG.

Exploits for vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Office suite were the most popular among cyber-attackers during the first quarter of this year, according to a new Kaspersky report.

A ransomware attack on the world’s largest meat company is disrupting production around the world just weeks after a similar incident shut down a U.S. oil pipeline.

Exabeam, a late-stage startup in the data analytics and SIEM space, has landed a new $200 million funding round that values the company at $2.4 billion.

Earlier this month, the U.S. experienced it first major shutdown of critical infrastructure due to a cyberattack in the nation’s history. When adversaries targeted Colonial Pipeline with a disruptive ransomware attack, critical infrastructure security immediately became a mainstream concern, because the attack is unprecedented in terms of its impact.

[redacted] emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday with $35 million in Series B funding and a cyber defense and response solution that enables organizations to pursue and disrupt adversaries.

The Swedish Public Health Agency (Folkhälsomyndigheten) is currently investigating several attempts to hack into SmiNet, a database that stores reports of infectious diseases, including COVID-19 cases.

JBS USA, the US subsidiary of the world's largest meat processing company, said Monday that some operations were shut down following a cyberattack that affected its North American and Australian IT network.

Looking to build stronger responses against cyberattacks in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, Microsoft on Monday announced the creation of a cybersecurity council for the public sector in the region.