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Hurricane-Related Scams
Original release date: August 21, 2021 CISA warns users to remain on alert for malicious cyber activity targeting potential disaster victims and charitable donors following a hurricane. Fraudulent emails—often containing malicious links or attachments—are common after major natural disasters. Exercise caution in handling emails with hurricane-related subject lines, attachments, or hyperlinks. In addition, be wary…
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Hurricane-Related Scams
Original release date: August 21, 2021 The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns users to remain on alert for malicious cyber activity targeting potential disaster victims and charitable donors following a hurricane. Fraudulent emails—often containing malicious links or attachments—are common after major natural disasters. Exercise caution in handling emails with hurricane-related subject lines, attachments,…
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Urgent: Protect Against Active Exploitation of ProxyShell Vulnerabilities
Original release date: August 21, 2021 Malicious cyber actors are actively exploiting the following ProxyShell vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-34523, and CVE-2021-31207. An attacker exploiting these vulnerabilities could execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable machine. CISA strongly urges organizations to identify vulnerable systems on their networks and immediately apply Microsoft’s Security Update from May 2021—which remediates all…
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Web Censorship Systems Can Facilitate Massive DDoS Attacks
Systems are ripe for abuse by attackers who can abuse systems to launch DDoS attacks.
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A New Critical SolarWinds Zero-Day Vulnerability Under Active Attack
The Texas-based company, SolarWinds, that became the epicenter of a massive supply chain attack late last year has issued patches to contain a remote code execution flaw. These changes were brought on by the Microsoft notification to the IT management and remote monitoring software maker that the flaw was being exploited in the wild. SolarWinds…
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How Ready Are You for a Ransomware Attack?
Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra, lays out the different layers of ransomware defense all companies should implement.
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Critical Cisco Bug in Small Business Routers to Remain Unpatched
The issue affects a range of Cisco Wireless-N and Wireless-AC VPN routers that have reached end-of-life.
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Windows EoP Bug Detailed by Google Project Zero
Microsoft first dismissed the elevation of privilege flaw but decided yesterday that attackers injecting malicious code is worthy of attention.
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ISC Releases Security Advisory for BIND
Original release date: August 19, 2021 The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released a security advisory that addresses a vulnerability affecting multiple versions of the ISC Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND). A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service condition. CISA encourages users and administrators to review ISC advisory CVE-2021-25218 and apply the…
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Postmortem on U.S. Census Hack Exposes Cybersecurity Failures
Government says cybersecurity failures were many within failed January hack of U.S. Census Bureau systems.