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The Biden administration issued new sanctions against Russia on Thursday.  The sanctions target over 30 Russian entities and expel 10 Russian diplomats from the US. The sanctions also accuse Russia’s foreign intelligence service of being behind the SolarWinds hack. See more stories on Insider’s business page. The Biden administration on Thursday slapped Russia with a…

Threat actors are actively scanning for Internet-exposed VMware vCenter servers unpatched against a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability impacting all vCenter deployments and patched by VMware ten days ago. The ongoing scanning activity was spotted by threat intelligence company Bad Packets yesterday and confirmed earlier today by cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont. Security researchers have also developed and published a proof-of-concept…

Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Proofpoint Update Describes the Fraud Tactics Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • March 23, 2021     The SolarWinds supply chain attackers manipulated OAuth app certificates to maintain persistence and access privileged resources including email, according to researchers at Proofpoint. See Also: Top 50 Security Threats …

In 2018, industry and academic researchers revealed a potentially devastating hardware flaw that made computers and other devices worldwide vulnerable to attack. Researchers named the vulnerability Spectre because the flaw was built into modern computer processors that get their speed from a technique called “speculative execution,” in which the processor predicts instructions it might end up executing…

Check Point Software Technologies has agreed to buy rising star Avanan to deliver cloud email malware protection and expand security to SaaS collaboration suites. The US-based platform security vendor said the combined Check Point-Avanan offering will be the only unified tool on the market to protect the remote workforce from malicious files, URLs and phishing…

New Delhi: A hacker has posted the phone numbers and sensitive account details of nearly 533 million Facebook users — about a fifth of the social networking platform‘s entire user base — including over 61 lakh Indian users which has been dumped on a public cybercrime forum. The leaked data includes Facebook ID numbers, profile…