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A new Android trojan named Brokewell can steal user’s sensitive information and allows attackers to take over devices.

More than 1,400 CrushFTP servers remain vulnerable to an actively exploited zero-day for which PoC has been published.

More than 90,000 unique IPs are still infected with a PlugX worm variant that spreads via infected flash drives.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Volkswagen hacked by Chinese threat group, DDoS service shut down, Rubrik IPO.

UK cybersecurity firm Darktace has agreed to sell itself to private equity giant Thoma Bravo for approximately $5.32 million in cash.

A vulnerability in the WordPress Automatic plugin is being exploited to inject backdoors and web shells into websites.

Predictive attack intelligence and risk protection startup BforeAI has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by SYN Ventures.

Palo Alto Networks has shared remediation instructions for organizations whose firewalls have been hacked via CVE-2024-3400.

A new phishing campaign abuses compromised email accounts and targets corporate users with PDF files hosted on Autodesk Drive.

The FTC is sending a total of $5.6 million in refunds to over 117,000 Ring customers as result of a 2023 settlement.

The Brocade SANnav management application is affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including a publicly available root password.

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Mike Dube has joined cloud security company Aqua Security as CRO.

Cody Barrow has been appointed as CEO of threat intelligence company EclecticIQ.

Shay Mowlem has been named CMO of runtime and application security company Contrast Security.

Attack detection firm Vectra AI has appointed Jeff Reed to the newly created role of Chief Product Officer.

Shaun Khalfan has joined payments giant PayPal as SVP, CISO.

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A new Android trojan named Brokewell can steal user’s sensitive information and allows attackers to take over devices.

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Palo Alto Networks has shared remediation instructions for organizations whose firewalls have been hacked via CVE-2024-3400.

CISA Warns of Windows Print Spooler Flaw After Microsoft Sees Russian Exploitation

CISA warns organizations of a two-year-old Windows Print Spooler vulnerability being exploited in the wild.

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A new Android trojan named Brokewell can steal user’s sensitive information and allows attackers to take over devices.

More than 1,400 CrushFTP servers remain vulnerable to an actively exploited zero-day for which PoC has been published.

More than 90,000 unique IPs are still infected with a PlugX worm variant that spreads via infected flash drives.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Volkswagen hacked by Chinese threat group, DDoS service shut down, Rubrik IPO.

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It was a commercial printing error, not hackers, that caused two companies listed on the Hong Kong Exchange to be suspended earlier this week. Confusion, and previous security concerns, led to the initial reports that hacking was involved. However, the exchange and one of the companies involved deny the reports of a security incident.

Wave Systems, a Massachusetts-based provider of security, data protection and encryption solutions, today launched a subscription-based cloud service to help enterprises simplify management of self-encrypting drives (SEDs).

NEW YORK - (AFP) - The Reuters News website has been hacked for the second time this month, with a fake report that Saudi Arabia's foreign minister prince Saud al-Faisal has died, the news agency said Wednesday."The blogging platform of the Reuters News website was hacked on Wednesday," Reuters said on its website.

Adobe rolled out a set of patches on Tuesday, addressing more than 20 security issues. The patch that is being hailed as the most important, however, is one for Flash Player that has been actively exploited in order to compromise Windows-based systems.

Cloud and managed hosting provider giant Rackspace Hosting today released Rackspace Private Cloud Software, a new offering powered by OpenStack that makes it easy for organizations to deploy their own multi-node private cloud environment anywhere they choose.The company said the newly released software uses the same OpenStack compute platform that is used to run Rackspace’s own datacenters. 

Microsoft released nine security bulletins today addressing 26 vulnerabilities in its products. Five of the bulletins are rated 'critical', and cover issues in Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, Server Software and Developer Tools. From a priority standpoint, Microsoft recommended organizations deploy three critical updates first – MS12-060, MS12-052 and MS12-054.

Imation Corp., an Oakdale, Minnesota-based storage and data security company, today expanded its "Defender" line of secure USB hard drives, adding drives with capacities of up to 1 terabyte (TB), with an option for biometric fingerprint authentication, and new USB drive management tools.

Trusteer is reporting that they have discovered a new attack utilizing the Citadel Trojan. According to a blog post from the security firm, Citadel is targeting an enterprise VPN belonging to a major international airport, but they have withheld the name.

Oracle has released a patch for a vulnerability (CVE-2012-3132) disclosed by David Litchfield from Accuvant Labs during the Black Hat security conference last month. The vulnerability, which is SQL Injection at its core, allows an attacker to gain high-level privileges, and take complete control over the server.

The malware responsible for attacks on at least 30 local governments, universities, and businesses in the Netherlands, Dorifel (XDocCrypt), is still actively spreading and causing new infections, despite a wide net of detection within the anti-Virus market.

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