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In its Q2 2023 Global Ransomware Report, Corvus noted a significant resurgence in global ransomware attacks, which has continued through the third quarter. Now, with two months remaining in the year, the number of ransomware victims in 2023 has already surpassed what was observed for 2021 and 2022. If the …

The President of the Canadian treasury board, Anita Anand, announced yesterday (30 October) a ban on the use of the WeChat and Kaspersky suite of applications on government-issued mobile devices. The press release stated, the Government of Canada is committed to keeping government information and networks secure. We regularly monitor …

Details of 81.5 crore Indians linked to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) are reportedly being sold in India’s largest data leak case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India’s top investigative agency, is likely to investigate the matter once ICMR files a complaint. A report found that someone, …

Three unpatched security flaws in the NGINX Ingress controller for Kubernetes have been revealed. These flaws have a high severity level and could be used by a malicious actor to steal secret credentials from the cluster. The vulnerabilities are as follows: CVE-2022-4886 (CVSS score: 8.8) – Ingress-nginx path sanitization can …

Online fraud is on the rise. Every day a large number of people are falling victim to this fraud. Someone is losing crore money. Money is being extorted through phishing emails, fake job offers, cryptocurrency scams and fake phone calls. Sometimes the phone gets hacked just by revising the phone. …

F5 warned customers about a serious security flaw in BIG-IP that may lead to unauthorized remote code execution. An issue has been identified in the configuration utility component. It is assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-46747 and has a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10. F5 has stated that an …

Multiple vulnerabilities in VMware Aria Operations for Logs were privately reported to VMware. VMware Aria Operations for Logs contains an authentication bypass vulnerability VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Important Severity Range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 8.1. An unauthenticated, malicious actor …

Ransomware activity soared in September after a temporary decrease in August, which was still higher than usual for summer. In September, ransomware groups conducted 514 attacks, surpassing the 459 attacks recorded in March 2023 according to NCC group cyber threat intelligence report. The March attacks were mainly caused by the …

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Google plans to test a new feature called “IP Protection” for Chrome. This feature will improve users’ privacy by masking their IP addresses with proxy servers. Google wants to address the possibility of IP addresses being used for covert tracking, while still maintaining the necessary functions of the web. IP …