Nigerian Authorities Arrest 11 Members of Prolific BEC Fraud Group

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Nigerian authorities have arrested 11 individuals believed to be members of the business email compromise (BEC) crime ring tracked as SilverTerrier.

The 11 suspects were arrested as part of a 10-day operation (December 13-22, 2021) in which the Nigerian Police collaborated with Interpol and private security firms Palo Alto Networks and Group-IB.

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Cisco Patches Critical Vulnerability in RCM for StarOS

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Cisco on Tuesday announced patches for a critical vulnerability in the Redundancy Configuration Manager (RCM) for the StarOS software running on its ASR 5000 networking devices.

A Cisco proprietary node/network function, RCM delivers redundancy of StarOS-based user plane functions.

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