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Akira ransomware has hit over 250 organizations worldwide and received over $42 million in ransom payments.

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Telecom giant Frontier shuts down systems to contain a cyberattack that led to personal information compromise.

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Microsoft warns that several OpenMetadata vulnerabilities are being exploited to deploy cryptomining malware to Kubernetes environments.

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Malicious hackers are targeting SAP applications at an alarming pace, according to warnings from Onapsis and Flashpoint.

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Silicon Valley startup Anvilogic has raised $45 million in a Series C funding round led by Evolution Equity Partners.

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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) investigating a ransomware attack in which hackers stole sensitive data.

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Five Eyes cybersecurity agencies have released joint guidance on securely deploying and operating AI systems. 

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Cisco patches a high-severity Integrated Management Controller vulnerability for which PoC exploit code is available.

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Cherry Health says the personal information of over 180,000 individuals was stolen in a ransomware attack.

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LabHost, a major phishing-as-a-service platform, has been shut down as part of a major law enforcement operation. 

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Cisco announces Hypershield, an AI-native and cloud-native enterprise security solution with a wide range of capabilities.

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Kapeka is a new backdoor that may be a new addition to Russia-link Sandworm’s malware arsenal and possibly a successor to GreyEnergy.

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YL Ventures leads an early stage funding round for Miggo Security, a Tel Aviv startup working on application detection and response technology.

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Armis has acquired cyber risk prioritization and remediation company Silk Security for $150 million. 

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Cisco has observed an increase in brute-force attacks targeting web application authentication, VPNs, and SSH services.

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Ivanti releases patches for 27 vulnerabilities in the Avalanche MDM product, including critical flaws leading to command execution.

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Chrome and Firefox security updates resolve over 35 vulnerabilities, including a dozen high-severity bugs.

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Mandiant summarizes some of the latest operations of Russia’s notorious Sandworm group, which it now tracks as APT44.

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Oracle releases 441 new security patches to address 230 vulnerabilities as part of its April 2024 Critical Patch Update.

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Palo Alto Networks firewall vulnerability CVE-2024-3400 increasingly exploited after PoC code has been released. 

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