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Python Package Index Faces Security Crisis With Validated Leaks

Security researchers have discovered a total of 3938 unique secrets on PyPI, the official third-party package management system for the Python community, across all projects, with 768 of them validated as authentic.  Notably, 2922 projects contained at least one unique secret. Among the leaked secrets were various credentials, including AWS Keys, Redis credentials, Google API […]

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Credit card skimming on the rise for the holiday shopping season | Malwarebytes

As we head into shopping season, customers aren’t the only ones getting excited. More online shopping means more opportunities for cybercriminals to grab their share using scams and data theft. One particular threat we’re following closely and expect to increase over the next several weeks is credit card skimming. Online stores are not always as […]

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File-transfer services, rich with sensitive data, are under attack

The spree of attacks against MOVEit environments in May, which are still cascading to downstream victims five months later, capped a concentrated period of damaging attacks against file-transfer services. Progress Software’s MOVEit, Fortra’s GoAnywhere and IBM Aspera Faspex were hit by supply-chain attacks over a three-month span starting in March this year. Clop, the ransomware […]

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U.S. Takes Down IPStorm Botnet, Russian-Moldovan Mastermind Pleads Guilty

Nov 15, 2023NewsroomCyber Crime / Network Security The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the takedown of the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure, as the Russian and Moldovan national behind the operation pleaded guilty. “The botnet infrastructure had infected Windows systems then further expanded to infect Linux, Mac, and Android devices, victimizing computers and […]

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Cyber-espionage operation on embassies linked to Russia’s Cozy Bear hackers

Russian state-sponsored hackers have targeted embassies and international organizations in a recent cyber-espionage campaign, Ukrainian government cybersecurity researchers have found. The attacks were attributed to the infamous hacker group labeled APT29, also known as Cozy Bear or Blue Bravo. Analysts previously have linked it to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), which gathers political and economic […]

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Rackspace records $5M in expenses related to 2022 ransomware attack

Rackspace Technology recorded $5 million in expenses for the first nine months of this year, stemming from the December 2022 ransomware attack of the company’s Hosted Exchange business, according to a 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  The managed email solution for small- and medium-sized businesses represented about 1% of the company’s revenue […]