New ‘RisePro’ Infostealer Increasingly Popular Among Cybercriminals

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A recently identified information stealer named ‘RisePro’ is being distributed by pay-per-install malware downloader service ‘PrivateLoader’, cyberthreat firm Flashpoint reports.

Written in C++, RisePro harvests potentially sensitive information from the compromised machines and then attempts to exfiltrate it as logs.

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Cisco Warns of Many Old Vulnerabilities Being Exploited in Attacks

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Cisco has updated multiple security advisories to warn of the malicious exploitation of severe vulnerabilities impacting its networking devices.

Many of the bugs, which carry severity ratings of ‘critical’ or ‘high’, have been addressed 4-5 years ago, but organizations that haven’t patched their devices continue to be impacted.

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