In 2024, it’s a demonstrable fact: Most Americans want access to clean energy. But switching to clean energy isn’t as easy as simply deciding to stop using coal or natural gas. What happens when you can’t install a solar panel on your roof, for reasons ranging from tree blockage to homeowner association rules? What if […]
CERT-UA reports that in March 2024, APT44 conducted operations to disrupt information and communication systems at energy, water, and heating suppliers in 10 regions of Ukraine.
April 16, 2024 Greg Lesnewich, Crista Giering, and the Proofpoint Threat Research Team Key takeaways TA427 regularly engages in benign conversation starter campaigns to establish contact with targets for long-term exchanges of information on topics of strategic importance to the North Korean regime. In addition to using specially crafted lure content, TA427 heavily leverages think […]
Microsoft was impersonated in 38% of all brand phishing attacks in Q1 2024, according to new data from Check Point. This is an increase on the proportion of brand phishing attempts impersonating the tech giant compared to Q4 2023, when it made up 33% of cases. Google was the second most impersonated brand in Q1 […]
The first three months of 2024 saw 841 publicly reported “data compromises” – up 90% on the same period last year, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). The non-profit said that although the number of data breaches, exposures and leaks was up on Q1 2023, the total victim count decreased 72% annually to […]
Only three critical vulnerabilities were fixed as part of the April 2024 Patch Tuesday updates, but there are over 67 remote code execution bugs. More than half of the RCE flaws are found within Microsoft SQL drivers, likely sharing a common flaw.
Microsoft has released security updates for the month of April 2024 to remediate a record 149 flaws, two of which have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 149 flaws, three are rated Critical, 142 are rated Important, three are rated Moderate, and one is rated Low in severity. The update is aside […]
Update April 8th, 2024: Updated ETA for CloudLinux 6h and CloudLinux 7. The KernelCare team is working on deploying a live patch for CVE-2024-1086 for CloudLinux users. A patch has already been released for CloudLinux 6h and CloudLinux 7, and users can manually update without a live patch. Instructions for doing so can be found […]
In January 2024, FortiGuard Labs collected a PDF file written in Portuguese that distributes a multi-functional malware known as Byakugan. While investigating this campaign, a report about it was published.