LastPass is warning about an ongoing campaign where scammers are writing reviews for its Chrome extension to promote a fake customer support phone number. However, this phone number is part of a much larger campaign to trick callers into giving scammers remote access to their computers.

Synology, a Taiwanese network-attached storage (NAS) appliance maker, patched two critical zero-days exploited during last week's Pwn2Own hacking competition within days.

Sophos disclosed today a series of reports dubbed "Pacific Rim" that detail how the cybersecurity company has been sparring with Chinese threat actors for over 5 years as they increasingly targeted networking devices worldwide, including those from Sophos.

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VMware has recently released software updates to address a security flaw believed to have already been patched in vCenter Server. The vulnerability, known as CVE-2024-38812 with a CVSS score of 9.8, is a heap-overflow vulnerability. Continue reading this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory to mitigate your risk.

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Fog and Akira ransomware operators are exploiting a critical SonicWall SSL VPN vulnerability, CVE-2024-40766, to breach corporate networks.

The BlackBasta ransomware operation has moved its social engineering attacks to Microsoft Teams, posing as corporate help desks contacting employees to assist them with an ongoing spam attack.

Amazon has seized domains used by the Russian APT29 hacking group in targeted attacks against government and military organizations to steal Windows credentials and data using malicious Remote Desktop Protocol connection files.

The third day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2024 continued to showcase the expertise of white hat hackers as they exposed 11 zero-day vulnerabilities, adding $124,750 to the total prize pool, which now stands at $874,875.

UnitedHealth has confirmed for the first time that over 100 million people had their personal information and healthcare data stolen in the Change Healthcare ransomware attack, marking this as the largest healthcare data breach in recent years.

Henry Schein has finally disclosed a data breach following at least two back-to-back cyberattacks in 2023 by the BlackCat Ransomware gang, revealing that over 160,000 people had their personal information stolen.

Insurance administrative services company Landmark Admin warns that a data breach impacts over 800,000 people from a May cyberattack.

A new Fortinet FortiManager flaw dubbed "FortiJump" and tracked as CVE-2024-47575 has been exploited since June 2024 in zero-day attacks on over 50 servers, according to a new report by Mandiant.

WordPress sites are being hacked to install malicious plugins that display fake software updates and errors to push information-stealing malware.

Microsoft is using deceptive tactics against phishing actors by spawning realistic-looking honeypot tenants with access to Azure and lure cybercriminals in to collect intelligence about them.

Cisco confirmed today that it took its public DevHub portal offline after a threat actor leaked "non-public" data, but it continues to state that there is no evidence that its systems were breached.

Nidec Corporation is informing that hackers behind a ransomware attack is suffered earlier this year stole data and leaked it on the dark web.

The latest generations of Intel processors, including Xeon chips, and AMD's older microarchitectures on Linux are vulnerable to new speculative execution attacks that bypass existing 'Spectre' mitigations.

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Three Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) vulnerabilities are being exploited and weaponized in the wild. Read this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory to learn how you can mitigate your risk of being targeted.

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 Researchers have observed the well-known cyber espionage group OilRig exploiting a now-patched privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2024-30088) in the Windows Kernel to conduct espionage operations. Read this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory to learn more about the espionage campaign and how to avoid becoming a victim of the campaign.

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A Mozilla Firefox critical zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2024-9680, has emerged. This vulnerability allows an attacker to have unauthorized access and potential remote code execution on the affected OS. Continue reading this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory for recommendations to remediate this threat.