SC Media reports: Oregon-based third-party retirement plan administrator Carruth Compliance Consulting had information from more than 40,000 public school teachers and employees in California, Illinois, New York, Oregon, and Pennsylvania exfiltrated following a December attack by the newly emergent Skira Team hacking group, which purported the theft of data from 36 public schools across the…
Proof-of-concept (PoC) code was published for CVE-2024-49113, a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in Windows LDAP. The post Exploit Code Published for Potentially Dangerous Windows LDAP Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The financially motivated threat actor known as FIN7 has been linked to a Python-based backdoor called Anubis (not to be confused with an Android banking trojan of the same name) that can grant them remote access to compromised Windows systems. “This malware allows attackers to execute remote shell commands and other system operations, giving them…
From HHS’s press release today: Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with Health Fitness Corporation (Health Fitness), located in Illinois, that provides wellness plans to clients across the country, resolving a potential violation under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)…
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions against a Chinese cybersecurity company and a Shanghai-based cyber actor for their alleged links to the Salt Typhoon group and the recent compromise of the federal agency. “People’s Republic of China-linked (PRC) malicious cyber actors continue to target U.S. government systems, including…
If you’re using AWS, it’s easy to assume your cloud security is handled – but that’s a dangerous misconception. AWS secures its own infrastructure, but security within a cloud environment remains the customer’s responsibility. Think of AWS security like protecting a building: AWS provides strong walls and a solid roof, but it’s up to the…
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