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Daily Cybersecurity update, July 12, 2023

Once again proving that the educational sector is a favorite target among threat actors, a Michigan community college fell victim to a data breach. The incident possibly exposed the personal information of over 750,000 people. Another day, another government attacked. The Ministry of Digital Transformation in Trinidad and Tobago suffered a cyberattack, resulting in outages since June 30. This one’s for gamers; be careful while you go out buying game hacks. A PUBG hack was found deploying the Legion info-stealer. Read along for more.

Lansing Community College in Michigan has recently discovered a data breach that took place between late 2022 and early 2023. This breach has affected a significant number of individuals, including 757,832 employees, students, and vendors. As a result of this incident, their personal information, including Social Security Numbers (SSNs) and other sensitive data, may have been compromised.

Hacker claim Leak of Deloitte Source Code & GitHub Credentials

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CISA Issued Guidance for SIEM and SOAR Implementation

CISA and ACSC issued new guidance this week on how to procure, implement, and maintain SIEM and SOAR platforms. SIEM...
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Linux flaws enable password hash theft via core dumps in Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora

The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) found two local information-disclosure vulnerabilities in Apport and systemd-coredump. Both issues are race-condition vulnerabilities....
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Australia enacts mandatory ransomware payment reporting

New ransomware payment reporting rules take effect in Australia yesterday (May 30) for all organisations with an annual turnover of...
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Why Govt Demands Foreign CCTV Firms to Submit Source Code?

Global makers of surveillance gear have clashed with Indian regulators in recent weeks over contentious new security rules that require...
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CVE-2023-39780
Botnet hacks thousands of ASUS routers

GreyNoise has discovered a campaign where attackers have gained unauthorized access to thousands of internet-exposed ASUS routers. This seems to...
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Bangladesh Bank instructed using AI to prevent online gambling

The rise of online gambling in the country is leading to increased crime and societal issues. In response, the central...
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251 Amazon-Hosted IPs Used in Exploit Scan for ColdFusion, Struts, and Elasticsearch

Cybersecurity researchers recently revealed a coordinated cloud-based scanning attack that targeted 75 different exposure points earlier this month. On May...
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Zero-Trust Policy bypass to Exploit Vulns & Manipulate NHI Secrets

Recent security research has shown that attackers can weaken zero-trust security frameworks by exploiting a key DNS vulnerability, disrupting automated...
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Evaly E-commerce Platform Allegedly Hacked

Evaly, a Bangladeshi e-commerce platform, is reportedly facing a major data breach that may have exposed sensitive information of around...
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The cyberattack on the Ministry of Digital Transformation in Trinidad and Tobago has resulted in significant disruptions to operations and the unfortunate loss of court documents that were being served electronically since June 30.

Microsoft has issued a warning regarding a phishing campaign carried out by Storm-0978. This campaign specifically targets defense and government organizations in Europe and North America. The attackers exploit a remote code execution vulnerability to carry out their attacks.

The Cl0p ransomware attack on MOVEit Transfer is causing more damage, with 250 organizations now affected. Recently, Radisson Hotels, American National Insurance Company, and Sun Life disclosed data breaches due to the same.

Cyble detected a deceptive GitHub page that pretends to offer a PUBG hack, but actually installs the info-stealing malware known as Legion. The malware particularly targets Minecraft session files and steals credentials from application files associated with the game.

The impact of the Cl0p ransomware attack on MOVEit Transfer continues to grow, with a total of 250 organizations now affected. Recently, Radisson Hotels, American National Insurance Company, and Sun Life disclosed data breaches due to the same.

Three Twitter accounts connected to the Chinese government were discovered spreading propaganda in Latin American countries such as Paraguay, Costa Rica, Chile, and Brazil. This was part of a cyber espionage campaign.

ASEC has uncovered multiple variants of the Rekoobe backdoor that specifically target Linux environments, including certain strains that have been specifically designed to target Korean companies. The backdoor is usually used by the China-linked threat group APT31.

A report by Group-IB showed a significarease in phishing websites and scam pages pretending to be real brands in 2022.

SaaS security startup Savvy raised $20 million in a funding round led by Canaan. Previous investors Cyberstarts and Lightspeed also participated.

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