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Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: ENISA and NCSC release cybersecurity reports, abuse of Cloudflare services, FBI warns of gen-AI enabling fraud. 

Data privacy solutions provider Ethyca has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Aspenwood Ventures and AVP.

SonicWall has released patches for multiple high-severity flaws in the SMA100 SSL-VPN secure access gateway.

Atrium Health has notified the HHS of a data breach impacting 585,000 individuals, and the incident may be related to online tracking.

Google has announced the open source availability of Vanir, a patch validation tool for Android platform developers.

WatchTowr has published proof-of-concept (PoC) code for an unpatched vulnerability in the Mitel MiCollab enterprise collaboration platform.

A California teen suspected of being a Scattered Spider member left a long trail of evidence and even used an FBI service to launder money.

A critical directory traversal vulnerability in the SailPoint IdentityIQ IAM platform exposes restricted files to attackers.

Japanese device maker confirms zero-day router exploitation and warn that full patches won’t be available for a few weeks.

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The newly discovered DroidBot Android trojan targets 77 banks, cryptocurrency exchanges, and national organizations.

People on the Move

Shanta Kohli has been named CMO at Sysdig.

Cloud security firm Sysdig has appointed Sergej Epp as CISO.

F5 has appointed John Maddison as Chief Product Marketing and Technology Alliances Officer.

Video platform Vimeo has appointed Ryan Weeks as Chief Information Security Officer.

LPL Financial has welcomed Renana Friedlich as Chief Information Security Officer.

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A top White House official said at least eight U.S. telecom firms and dozens of nations have been impacted by a Chinese hacking campaign.

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Russia’s Turla hackers hijacked 33 command servers operated by Pakistani hackers who had themselves breached Afghanistan and Indian targets.

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Supply chain attack leads to decentralized application developers downloading backdoored versions of the Solana Web3.js library.

Top Cybersecurity Headlines

McInerney’s path to becoming a hacker is subtly different to many other hackers. He started as a 22-year old psychology graduate rather than a computer-obsessed 9-year old kid.

The ‘Bootkitty’ prototype UEFI bootkit contains an exploit for LogoFAIL and was created in a South Korea university program.

Russian authorities have reportedly arrested Mikhail Matveev, who is wanted by the US for ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure.

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Mexico City - Hackers claimed a cyber attack on the Mexican defense ministry website on Wednesday, posting a manifesto from the Zapatista rebel group for two hours. The name of the group "Anonymous Mexico" was visible on the website in front of a black background, with phrases from the manifesto of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN).

In a blog post examining cases from 2012, Verizon Business’ Andrew Valentine presented a tale of a critical infrastructure firm in the U.S. who called them into investigate suspicious VPN connections to China. As it turns out, this was no complex hack, just a lazy developer – or a smart one depending on how you view things.

Zettaset, a Mountain View, California-based provider of Big Data management and security solutions, announced on Wednesday that it has closed a $10 million Series B round of venture funding. The new cash will be used to expand research and development and sales and marketing in order meet increasing demand from enterprise customers, the company said.

On Tuesday, AlienVault, the company behind open source SIEM, OSSIM, announced the version 4.1 release of their Unified Security Management platform, which looks to resolve the challenges associated with typical SIEM deployments including cost, complexity, and implementation.

Recent analysis from Frost & Sullivan shows that the security of critical facilities remains the topmost priority for the global oil and gas industry. Accordingly, these markets are increasing the amount spent on security offerings, including those offer integrated and flexible solutions with rounded protection.

SEOUL - South Korean police on Wednesday said North Korea was behind a cyber-attack that paralysed operations at a major conservative newspaper last year. Police accused the North of hacking the news website and database of the JoongAng Ilbo and sister English paper the Korea JoongAng Daily last June, saying the ministry of post and telecommunications might have been involved.

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Application Security

Google has announced the open source availability of Vanir, a patch validation tool for Android platform developers.

Cloud Security

Cloud Security

Veeam releases patches for two vulnerabilities in Service Provider Console, including a critical-severity remote code execution bug.

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