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Cyberattack Causes Chaos in Costa Rica Government Systems

Attack Costa Rican

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SecurityWeek / 3h

Nearly a week into a ransomware attack that has crippled Costa Rican government computer systems, the country refused to pay a ransom as it struggled to implement workarounds and braced itself as hackers began publishing stolen information. read more

Now Mandiant says 2021 was a record year for exploited zero-day security bugs

Zero-Day Project Zero

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The Register – Security / 4h

Now that's a race condition The number of zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild reached an all-time high last year, according to Mandiant.…

Phishing attacks using the topic “Azovstal” targets entities in Ukraine

Security Affairs / 4h

Ukraine CERT-UA warns of phishing attacks on state organizations of Ukraine using the topic “Azovstal” and Cobalt Strike Beacon. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warns of phishing attacks aimed at organizations in the country using the topic “Azovstal”. The phishing message use the subject “Azovstal” and a weaponized office document. Upon opening the attachment and enabli

Animated QR codes: how do they work, and how to create your own?

WhatsApp Codes FBI

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26BleepingComputer / 5h

Is there such a thing as animated QR codes? And could they work? Even those who may not know how exactly QR codes work have pretty much been exposed to them by now. [...]

T-Mobile Admits Lapsus$ Hackers Gained Access to its Internal Tools and Source Code

LAPSUS$ Mobile March

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87The Hacker News / 6h

Telecom company T-Mobile on Friday confirmed that it was the victim of a security breach in March after the LAPSUS$ mercenary gang managed to gain access to its networks. The acknowledgment came after investigative journalist Brian Krebs shared internal chats belonging to the core members of the group indicating that LAPSUS$ breached the company several times in March prior to the arrest of its

Atlassian Drops Patches for Critical Jira Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

63The Hacker News / 7h

Atlassian has published a security advisory warning of a critical vulnerability in its Jira software that could be abused by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to circumvent authentication protections. Tracked as CVE-2022-0540, the flaw is rated 9.9 out of 10 on the CVSS scoring system and resides in Jira's authentication framework, Jira Seraph. Khoadha of Viettel Cyber Security has been

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