Hacked servers from all around the world are up for sale on obscure online marketplaces, and they are quite cheap too, going for as low as $6, Kaspersky Labs researchers warn.
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Office’s OLE Leveraged to Hide Malicious Code
Malware authors are switching from macros to object linking and embedding (OLE) to hide malicious Visual Basic (VB) and JavaScript (JS) scripts in Office documents, Microsoft warns.
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SAP Patches Critical Code Injection, XSS Vulnerabilities
SAP on Tuesday released a series of updates for its products, patching a total of 21 vulnerabilities, including four critical flaws, of which one was rated “Hot News.”
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Schneider Patches Severe Flaw in Video Management System
Schneider Electric has released a software update for its Pelco Digital Sentry video management solution to address a high severity vulnerability that allows attackers to compromise affected systems.
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Flaw Allowed Hackers to Steal Emails From Verizon Users
A critical vulnerability affecting Verizon’s webmail service could have been exploited by malicious actors to silently forward a targeted user’s emails to an arbitrary address.
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Chinese Attackers Conduct Cyberespionage for Economic Gain
Chinese Cyberspies Target Myanmar and Other Countries
A threat group believed to be affiliated with the Chinese government has been conducting cyber espionage operations against Myanmar and other countries for economic gain.
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AT&T Sees 30 Billion Malicious Network Scans Daily
Network provider AT&T says it has to deal with large numbers of cyber-attacks each day on its global network, and that it sees around 30 billion malicious scans daily on its IP network.
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APT Group Uses Flash Zero-Day to Attack High-Profile Targets
The Flash Player zero-day vulnerability whose existence was brought to light on Tuesday by Adobe has been exploited by a relatively new advanced persistent threat (APT) group named by Kaspersky Lab “ScarCruft.”
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US Charges Chinese Worker for IBM With ‘Economic Espionage’
Washington – US authorities charged a former Chinese employee of tech giant IBM with economic espionage Tuesday for allegedly stealing proprietary source code to hand over to a Chinese government agency.
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CISOs Risk Getting Fired Over Poor Reporting
Board members are paying attention to the cyber risk information reported to them and many say that cybersecurity executives could lose their jobs if they fail to provide useful, actionable information, a recent survey from Bay Dynamics reveals.
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