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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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The third installment of the "Twilight" franchise, “Eclipse,” which premiered this week, is breaking records for a midnight opening and fans are searching in the masses for any details about the film they can find online. Cyber criminals know this and have already "poisoned" common search results hoping to gain access to people's computers and infect them with malware.

Core Security, maker of penetration testers used by “red teams” to identify security vulnerabilities, today announced beta availability of a fully automated testing solution with the ability to continuously test and measure the overall security standing of an enterprise.

(ISC)2, the large not-for-profit information security professionals organization, today announced that Devon Bryan, CISSP, deputy associate chief information officer for cybersecurity for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), has been selected as the new co-chair of the (ISC)2 U.S. Government Advisory Board (GAB) for Cyber Security.

According to a recent survey conducted by security information and event management company NetForensics, the perceived need for protection against network threats is going up, while the resources available to deal with the problem are headed in the opposite direction.

Governments and utilities involved in building the United States’ “smart” power grids of the future are also constructing some of the most attractive targets imaginable for potential adversaries in a cyber warfare scenario.

Adoption of Android, an open source mobile device platform, is growing and millions of Android devices are being put into use every month, many of those with access to corporate networks. While many can argue that users have been waiting to upgrade to Apple’s latest iPhone 4 (launching this week), in the first part of 2010 Android based smartphones outsold iPhones for first time since its inception.

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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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