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Join this one-day virtual summit as we shine the spotlight on the shadowy dynamics of ransomware attacks and how you can best prepare your organization to defend against and recover from these relentless attacks.

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PuTTY vulnerability CVE-2024-31497 allows attackers to compromise private keys and use them to forge signatures. 

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Charles O. Parks III was arrested and charged with defrauding two cloud-services providers of $3.5 million.

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Cloud security specialists found data exposure risk associated with Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud command-line tools.

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Kevin O’Connor knew he was a hacker by the time he was in Middle School. He went on to work for the NSA and is now director of threat research at Adlumin.

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The RansomHub group has started leaking information allegedly stolen from Change Healthcare in February 2024.

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Foreign attackers have many more toolsets at their disposal, so we need to make sure we’re selective about our modeling, preparation and how we assess and fortify ourselves.

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Omni Hotels says customer information was compromised in a cyberattack claimed by the Daixin Team ransomware group.

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PAM company Delinea over the weekend rushed to patch a critical authentication bypass vulnerability after it apparently ignored the researcher who found the flaw.

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Cisco Duo warns that breach exposed phone numbers, phone carriers, metadata and other logs that could lead to downstream social engineering attacks.

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NightVision, an early stage startup in the application security testing space, has raised $5.4 million in seed funding.

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The Dark Angels (Dunghill) ransomware group claims to have stolen 1 Tb of data from Nexperia, which is investigating the incident.

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Juniper Networks patches dozens of vulnerabilities in Junos OS, Junos OS Evolved, and other products.

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ICS malware Fuxnet allegedly used by Ukrainian Blackjack group to disrupt industrial sensors and other systems belonging to a Moscow infrastructure firm.

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Authorities in Australia and the US have arrested and charged two individuals for developing and selling the Hive RAT.

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Former security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed was sentenced to prison for hacking and defrauding cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Palo Alto Networks has started releasing hotfixes for the firewall zero-day CVE-2024-3400, which some have linked to North Korea’s Lazarus. 

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The bill was approved on a bipartisan basis, 273-147, though it will still have to clear the Senate to become law.

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A state-sponsored threat actor has been exploiting a zero-day in Palo Alto Networks firewalls for the past two weeks.

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Financial terms of the translation were not disclosed but reports out of Tel Aviv valued the deal in the range of $350 million.

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