Friday , January 3 2025

International

Cyberattack hits Swedish cloud provider “Advania”

Advania

Advania, a Nordic IT provider, had a cybersecurity incident affecting at least 60 of its customers in Sweden, including healthcare centers. The company admitted a “security incident” in its public statement. In a statement the company said, “During the afternoon of Tuesday, February 6th, we discovered an anomaly in a …

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50% market share, 15 million annual turnover
Bangladeshi company lead internet sector in South Sudan

internet

Kamrul Hassan, an ICT entrepreneur, founded IPTech Limited in 2011 in South Sudan to offer training and services, following the country’s independence after a lengthy civil war. The new country needed money to improve its digital infrastructure. Kamrul, an entrepreneur from Bangladesh, saw the chance and took it. In 2012, …

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‘Synergia’ operation
INTERPOL-led operation targets growing cyber threats

Interpol

INTERPOL has found around 1,300 suspicious IP addresses and URLs worldwide. These were discovered during their operation against phishing, malware, and ransomware attacks. Operation Synergia was launched from September to November 2023 to address the increasing problem of transnational cybercrime and the need for coordinated action against new cyber threats. …

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Mandiant report
“Group UNC3886” exploiting VMware bug since late 2021

vmware

Mandiant and VMware Product Security found that the UNC3886 espionage group has been exploiting CVE-2023-34048 since late 2021, even though it was publicly reported and patched in October 2023. Mandiant found new ways that UNC3886 uses to attack computer systems. They focus on technologies that don’t have EDR protection and …

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