A WPS Office zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-7262 was exploited by South Korean hacker group APT-C-60.
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Rising Tides: Runa Sandvik on Creating Work that Makes a Difference
Runa Sandvik is an inaugural member of CISA’s Technical Advisory Council and the Aspen Institute’s Global Cybersecurity Group, and a board member of the Signals Network. But she is so much more.
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Chinese APT Volt Typhoon Caught Exploiting Versa Networks SD-WAN Zero-Day
Malware hunters catch Chinese APT Volt Typhoon exploiting a zero-day in Versa Director servers used by ISPs and MSPs.
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Iranian Hackers Targeted WhatsApp Accounts of Staffers in Biden, Trump Administrations, Meta Says
Meta said it discovered a network of Iranian hackers, who posed as tech support agents for companies including AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google.
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China-Linked ‘Velvet Ant’ Hackers Exploited Zero-Day to Deploy Malware on Cisco Nexus Switches
Hackers gained access to the switch using valid administrator credentials, and then ‘jailbroke’ from the application level into the OS level.
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US Intelligence Officials Say Iran is to Blame for Hacks Targeting Trump, Biden-Harris Campaigns
The assessment from agencies was the first time the U.S. government assigned blame for hacks that have raised anew the threat of foreign election interference.
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Google Disrupts Iranian Hacking Activity Targeting US Presidential Election
Google says it blocked Iranian APT42 hackers from accessing the personal email accounts of individuals affiliated with the US elections.
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Google Confirms an Iranian Group Is Trying to Access Emails Linked to Both US Presidential Campaigns
Google said an Iranian hacking group has tried to infiltrate the personal email accounts of roughly a dozen people linked to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump since May.
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Justice Department Disrupts North Korean ‘Laptop Farm’ Operation
Law enforcement authorities in the U.S. have arrested a Tennessee man accused of running a “laptop farm” that helped North Korean IT workers secure remote jobs at American companies.
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Iran Is Accelerating Cyber Activity That Appears Meant to Influence the US Election, Microsoft Says
Iranian actors have spent recent months creating fake news sites and impersonating activists, laying the groundwork to stoke division and potentially sway American voters this fall.
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