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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.

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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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In the third quarter of 2011, PandaLabs, Panda Security's malware research laboratory, said five million new malware samples were created, which, according to my math, breaks down to about 55,000 per day. It’s not news new to report that malware continues to be cranked out and an alarming rate. 

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Internet security firm Bitdefender announced the availability of its new cloud-based endpoint security offering this week.Designed to deliver the benefits of an on-premise enterprise security solution, “Cloud Security for Endpoints by Bitdefender” is built to provide a simple and flexible solution to protect end-user systems and servers without the overhead of additional software, hardware and IT staff.

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

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

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