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Toyota confirms breach after Medusa ransomware threatens to leak data

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Toyota Financial Services (TFS) has confirmed that it detected unauthorized access on some of its systems in Europe and Africa after Medusa ransomware claimed an attack on the company. 

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Fortinet warns of critical command injection bug in FortiSIEM

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Fortinet is alerting customers of a critical OS command injection vulnerability in FortiSIEM report server that could be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute commands through specially crafted API requests. 

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Toronto Public Library confirms data stolen in ransomware attack

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The Toronto Public Library (TPL) confirmed that the personal information of employees, customers, volunteers, and donors was stolen from a compromised file server during an October ransomware attack. 

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WP Fastest Cache plugin bug exposes 600K WordPress sites to attacks

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The WordPress plugin WP Fastest Cache is vulnerable to an SQL injection vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated attackers to read the contents of the site's database. 

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LockBit ransomware exploits Citrix Bleed in attacks, 10K servers exposed

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The Lockbit ransomware attacks use publicly available exploits for the Citrix Bleed vulnerability (CVE-2023-4966) to breach the systems of large organizations, steal data, and encrypt files. 

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VMware discloses critical VCD Appliance auth bypass with no patch

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VMware disclosed a critical and unpatched authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Cloud Director appliance deployments. 

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Microsoft November 2023 Patch Tuesday fixes 5 zero-days, 58 flaws

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Today is Microsoft's November 2023 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for a total of 58 flaws and five zero-day vulnerabilities. 

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McLaren Health Care says data breach impacted 2.2 million people

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McLaren Health Care (McLaren) is notifying nearly 2.2 million people of a data breach that occurred between late July and August this year, exposing sensitive personal information. 

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Cloudflare website downed by DDoS attack claimed by Anonymous Sudan

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Cloudflare confirmed that the outage resulted from a DDoS attack that only affected the www.cloudflare.com website without impacting other products or services. The company didn't attribute the attack to a specific threat actor. 

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World’s largest commercial bank ICBC confirms ransomware attack

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"On November 8, 2023, U.S. Eastern Time (November 9, 2023, Beijing Time), ICBC Financial Services (FS) experienced a ransomware attack that resulted in disruption to certain FS systems. Immediately upon discovering the incident, ICBC FS disconnected and isolated impacted systems to contain the incident," said the bank. 

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Google ads push malicious CPU-Z app from fake Windows news site

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A threat actor has been abusing Google Ads to distribute a trojanized version of the CPU-Z tool to deliver the Redline info-stealing malware. 

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OpenAI confirms DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages

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OpenAI has been addressing "periodic outages" due to DDoS attacks targeting its API and ChatGPT services within the last 24 hours. 

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ChatGPT down after major outage impacting OpenAI systems

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"Between 5:42AM - 7:16AM PT we saw errors impacting all services. We identified the problem and implemented a fix. We are now seeing normal responses from our services," the company said. 

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Microsoft Authenticator now blocks suspicious MFA alerts by default

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Microsoft has introduced a new protective feature in the Authenticator app to block notifications that appear suspicious based on specific checks performed during the account login stage. 

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Veeam warns of critical bugs in Veeam ONE monitoring platform

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Veeam released hotfixes today to address four vulnerabilities in the company's Veeam ONE IT infrastructure monitoring and analytics platform, two of them critical.

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Microsoft: Octo Tempest is one of the most dangerous financial hacking groups

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Microsoft has published a detailed profile of a native English-speaking threat actor with advanced social engineering capabilities it tracks as Octo Tempest, that targets companies in data extortion and ransomware attacks. 

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Android adware apps on Google Play amass two million installs

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Several malicious Google Play Android apps installed over 2 million times push intrusive ads to users while concealing their presence on the infected devices. 

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StripedFly malware framework infects 1 million Windows, Linux hosts

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A sophisticated cross-platform malware platform named StripedFly flew under the radar of cybersecurity researchers for five years, infecting over a million Windows and Linux systems during that time. 

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Cloudflare sees surge in hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS attacks

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Cloudflare says the number of hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks recorded in the third quarter of 2023 surpasses every previous year, indicating that the threat landscape has entered a new chapter. 

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New iLeakage attack steals emails, passwords from Apple Safari

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Academic researchers created a new speculative side-channel attack they named iLeakage that works on all recent Apple devices and can extract sensitive information from the Safari web browser. 

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Top Breaches Cost ($) of 2024

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INDUSTRIAL
TECHNOLOGY
ENERGY
Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024