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Although some experts consider NotPetya a variant of Petya, the two are generally regarded as separate and distinct. NotPetya is far more contagious than Petya, seemingly with no way to stop it from quickly spreading from one host to another.

 Breaches and Incidents

Scammers are threatening people who are 'closeted' or not yet fully 'out' as LGBTQ+. The FTC advises LGBTQ+ dating app users not to share explicit photos with people they've just met online or they're not 100% sure who's on the other end of the chat.

 Expert Blogs and Opinion

Ransomware dominated the news cycle in 2021, with a plethora of headline-grabbing attacks targeting industries from government to retail. The latest IDC report revealed staggering 37% of global organizations were the victim of a ransomware attack.

 Breaches and Incidents

The gang of mainly Brazilian criminals is said to have coerced Brazilians living in France, Spain, and Portugal. They rented apartments and hotel rooms by the week, which were used for sexual exploitation activities.

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Ubuntu Security Notice 5494-1 - It was discovered that SpiderMonkey JavaScript Library incorrectly generated certain assembly code. An remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or expose sensitive information. It was discovered that SpiderMonkey JavaScript Library incorrectly generated certain assembly code. An remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash.

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Ubuntu Security Notice 5493-1 - It was discovered that the 8 Devices USB2CAN interface implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a double-free. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.

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Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-5187-01 - Red Hat Openshift GitOps is a declarative way to implement continuous deployment for cloud native applications. Issues addressed include a cross site scripting vulnerability.

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Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-5192-01 - Red Hat Openshift GitOps is a declarative way to implement continuous deployment for cloud native applications. Issues addressed include a cross site scripting vulnerability.

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The Black Basta ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) syndicate has amassed nearly 50 victims in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand within two months of its emergence in the wild, making it a prominent threat in a short window. "Black Basta has been observed targeting a range of industries, including manufacturing, construction, transportation, telcos, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics,

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CODESYS has released patches to address as many as 11 security flaws that, if successfully exploited, could result in information disclosure and a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, among others.  "These vulnerabilities are simple to exploit, and they can be successfully exploited to cause consequences such as sensitive information leakage, PLCs entering a severe fault state, and arbitrary code

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Just before last Christmas, in a first-of-a-kind case, JPMorgan was fined $200M for employees using non-sanctioned applications for communicating about financial strategy. No mention of insider trading, naked shorting, or any malevolence. Just employees circumventing regulation using, well, Shadow IT. Not because they tried to obfuscate or hide anything, simply because it was a convenient tool

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Following the footsteps of Austria and France, the Italian Data Protection Authority has become the latest regulator to find the use of Google Analytics to be non-compliant with E.U. data protection regulations. The Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, in a press release published last week, called out a local web publisher for using the widely used analytics tool in a manner that

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A malware-as-a-service (Maas) dubbed Matanbuchus has been observed spreading through phishing campaigns, ultimately dropping the Cobalt Strike post-exploitation framework on compromised machines. Matanbuchus, like other malware loaders such as BazarLoader, Bumblebee, and Colibri, is engineered to download and execute second-stage executables from command-and-control (C&C) servers on infected

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