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Okta warned of a spike in credential stuffing attacks using anonymizing services such as Tor, DataImpulse, Luminati, and NSocks.

Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) says compromised information may include names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and account information.

A Belarusian hacker activist group claims to have infiltrated the network of the country’s main KGB security agency and accessed personnel files of over 8,600 employees.

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.

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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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Okta warned of a spike in credential stuffing attacks using anonymizing services such as Tor, DataImpulse, Luminati, and NSocks.

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A Belarusian hacker activist group claims to have infiltrated the network of the country’s main KGB security agency and accessed personnel files of over 8,600 employees.

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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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Okta warned of a spike in credential stuffing attacks using anonymizing services such as Tor, DataImpulse, Luminati, and NSocks.

Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) says compromised information may include names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and account information.

A Belarusian hacker activist group claims to have infiltrated the network of the country’s main KGB security agency and accessed personnel files of over…

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

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A new survey of developers and security professionals revealed that many organizations are still not baking security into the application development process.According to research by Security Innovation and the Ponemon Institute, 80 percent of the developers and two-thirds of the security personnel surveyed do not have a process where they build security into their software applications. In addition, 47 percent of developers state that there is no formal mandate in place to remediate vulnerable software code.

Symantec today announced its plans to acquire Nukona, Inc., a privately-held provider of mobile application management (MAM) solutions.Nukona's technology enables IT administrators to protect and control iOS, Android and HTML5 apps by "wrapping" both native and web-based apps with a management layer, and allowing them to apply security policies without having to modify the applications.

It has been close to four years since the birth of the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP). The program is meant to give security vendors vulnerability information early so that they can provide updated protections to customers, and up until recently, seems to have functioned without a hitch.

While Cisco has made strategic changes over the past year as it looks to focus on its “network-centric platform strategy”, including the shutting down of its Flip video unit and Umi consumer focused video conferencing line, the company today said it plans to spend approximately $5 billion to acquire NDS Group Ltd., a provider of video software and content security solutions for the television industry.

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