Cybersecurity Breach in Somalia Compromises E-Visa System, Key Official Dismissed MOGADISHU – In a significant cybersecurity incident, Somalia’s Security Minister, Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail Fartag, announced the dismissal of Mohamed Kasim, the deputy director of the Immigration and Citizenship Agency, following a breach of the nation’s e-visa system. This breach has…
Recent research reveals that the conversion process from DOS to NT paths in Windows represents a potential exploitation vector for threat actors, enabling rootkit-like functionality that could hide and impersonate files, directories, and processes. According to Or Yair, a security researcher from SafeBreach, when users invoke functions that involve a…
On Thursday, the U.S. and U.K. governments officially attributed the supply chain breach of SolarWinds, an IT infrastructure management firm, to Russian government operatives from the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). This attribution was made with “high confidence,” acknowledging the complexity and depth of the cyber-attack. The U.K. government issued a…
On Tuesday, cybersecurity giant FireEye confirmed it has suffered a significant breach, falling victim to a sophisticated state-sponsored attack that resulted in the theft of its Red Team penetration testing tools. These tools are integral for evaluating the security measures of their clients, spotlighting the pressing vulnerabilities that organizations face,…
A New Era of Email Defense: The Synergy of KnowBe4 and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 As the frequency and complexity of cyberattacks continue to escalate, organizations are increasingly targeted by malicious actors seeking to exploit vulnerabilities in their systems. The recent partnership between KnowBe4, a leader in security awareness…
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Crossroads of Cyber Crime: The Re-Victimization Phenomenon in Ransomware Attacks In examining a dataset of over 11,000 organizations impacted by Cyber Extortion and ransomware attacks, a troubling trend emerges: many victims are notably repeated targets. This raises critical questions about the nature of these re-victimizations—are they a result of multiple…
A critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-22893) has recently come to light within the Pulse Connect Secure gateway, affecting organizations utilizing this VPN technology. The vulnerability enables an authentication bypass, which is currently being actively exploited, and there is no available patch at this time. The primary targets of these intrusions include…
In a significant cybersecurity breach, state-sponsored actors allegedly associated with Russia have targeted prominent U.S. agencies, including the Treasury and the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). This sophisticated cyber espionage campaign has involved the monitoring of internal email communications, exposing vulnerabilities in national cybersecurity. Reports from…
