Taiwan’s government agencies face around five million cyberattacks and probes a day, an official said Wednesday, as a report warned of increasing Chinese cyber warfare targeting the self-ruled island. Taiwanese officials have previously said the island faces millions of cyberattacks every month, with around half of them believed to originate from China. Speaking in parliament, ..
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Researchers from software development company JFrog and industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty have identified a total of 14 new vulnerabilities in BusyBox, and on Tuesday they detailed some of their findings. The security holes found by Claroty and JFrog can be exploited for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and in some cases they can lead to information disclosure ..
SAP on Tuesday announced the release of five new and two updated security notes as part of its November 2021 Security Patch Day, including one note that deals with a critical vulnerability in ABAP Platform Kernel. Rated Hot News, which is SAP’s highest severity rating, the most severe of the new security notes addresses CVE-2021-40501 ..
US Goverment Offers $10 Million Reward for Data on Leaders and Members of DarkSide Ransomware Operation The U.S. government wants to find the people responsible for the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and it’s putting up multi-million rewards for data on the operators behind the DarkSide extortion campaign. The Department of State on Thursday offered up ..
Enterprise networking giant Cisco has released patches for multiple vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including critical security defects in Catalyst Passive Optical Network (PON) series switches and the Policy Suite product. The most severe of these issues are CVE-2021-34795 and CVE-2021-40113 (CVSS 10.0), two flaws in Catalyst PON switches that could be exploited to log ..
Researchers are calling attention to a newly discovered security defect in a kernel module that ships with all major Linux distributions, warning that remote attackers can exploit the bug to take complete control of a vulnerable system. The vulnerability — CVE-2021-43267 — is described as a heap overflow in the TIPC (Transparent Inter-Process Communication) module ..
The Biden administration announced Wednesday it is putting new export limits on Israel’s NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company, saying its tools have been used to “conduct transnational repression.” The company, whose spyware researchers say has been used around the world to break into the phones of human rights activists, journalists, and even ..
Female-founded application security startup Wabbi on Tuesday announced raising more than $2 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round. The funding round was led by Mendoza Ventures, with participation from Cisco Investments and several other companies and angel investors. Wabbi plans on using the money to scale its team. The company offers a continuous security ..
The cybercriminals behind the BlackMatter Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation this week announced plans to close shop. Active since July 2021, BlackMatter is the product of the Coreid cybercrime group, which also operated the DarkSide ransomware. BlackMatter’s use in assaults on critical infrastructure entities in the United States has resulted in the U.S. government recently issuing an ..
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the upcoming availability of Microsoft Defender for Business, an enterprise-grade endpoint security solution catered for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Soon to become available in preview, the solution is meant for organizations of up to 300 employees, to keep them protected from rising cyber threats, such as ransomware attacks and other ..
