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Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report noted a 37% increase in ransomware attacks and a 34% increase in exploited vulnerabilities.
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Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report noted a 37% increase in ransomware attacks and a 34% increase in exploited vulnerabilities.
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Infostealers fueled the staying power of identity-based attacks, increasing 84% on a weekly average last year, according to IBM X-Force.
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Network edge devices — hardware that powers firewalls, VPNs and network routers — have quickly moved up the list of attackers’ preferred intrusion points into enterprise networks. While dozens of companies make and sell these devices, customers of one company in particular — Ivanti — have confronted exploited vulnerabilities in their products more than any […]
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Microsoft said Storm-2460 has exploited the zero-day in the Windows Common Log File System to attack organizations in the U.S., Venezuela, Spain and Saudi Arabia.
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Serbian security services exploited one of the actively exploited vulnerabilities to break into the phone of a youth activist in Serbia, according to Amnesty International.
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UNC5221 has a knack for exploiting defects in Ivanti products. The group has exploited at least four vulnerabilities in the vendor’s products since 2023, according to Mandiant.
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AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform each scored 0% security effectiveness in CyberRatings.org’s evaluation of cloud network firewall vendors’ ability to prevent exploits and evasions.
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The company released a host of security patches Monday, including ones that address two zero-day vulnerabilities.
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Cisco Talos observed identity-based attacks in 60% of the incidents it responded to last year.
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