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A critical zero-day security vulnerability in Pulse Secure VPN devices has been exploited by nation-state actors to launch cyberattacks against U.S. defense, finance and government targets, as well as victims in Europe, researchers said.

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The U.S. intelligence apparatus is pressing Congress to propose measures that require private industry to share security breach information and other threat intelligence to the federal government.

Rivals including Match Group and Spotify accuse the tech giants of retaliation and anticompetitive behavior.

One example of this lack of hardening was the inclusion of Windows DLL files for audio/video conversion software known as FFmpeg. The software was built in 2012 and hasn’t been updated since. Marlinspike said that in the intervening nine years, FFmpeg has received more than 100 security updates. None of those fixes are included in the FFmpeg software bundled into the Cellebrite products.

A new zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-22893) affecting PulseSecure VPN equipment is being exploited by two China-linked hacking groups in order to breach networks belonging to U.S. defense contractors as well as government organizations around the world.

SonicWall is urging customers to apply patches to resolve three zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-20021, CVE-2021-20022, and CVE-2021-20023) in its email security solution that are being actively exploited in the wild.

The REvil/Sodinokibi operators published a post on their shaming website on April 20, 2021, claiming to have stolen information from Quanta Computer Inc who refused to pay. Now turning to Apple for ransom.

NSA, FBI, and CISA issued a joint alert warning on April 15 that Russia-linked APT group SVR ("Cozy Bear, The Dukes, APT29) has been spotted actively exploiting five vulnerabilities affecting Fortinet FortiGate VPN (CVE-2018-13379), Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (CVE-2019-9670), Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure VPN (CVE-2019-11510), Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Gateway (CVE-2019-19781), and VMware Workspace ONE Access (CVE-2020-4006) in attacks targeting U.S. companies and the DIB.

Vulnerability (CVE-2021-20291) affecting one of the Go libraries on which Kubernetes is based that is triggered when a cloud container pulls a malicious image from a registry could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on the CRI-O and Podman container engines, effectually bricking Kubernetes clusters.

A majority of the largest energy companies in the United States appear to have neglected the security of their domain names, according to CSC it found that the 80 percent of energy firms neglecting their domain names do not use registry locks.

Nearly every member of the Huntington Park, Calif. finance department has been placed on leave and one was arrested following a probe into a "large-scale security breach of electronic financial records at Huntington Park City Hall" on April 14 that resulted in a criminal investigation by the Huntington Park Police Department (HPPD).

Atlanta, Ga.-based smart parking and mobility solutions provider ParkMobile has disclosed that account details belonging to 21 million customers using its ParkMobile app were compromised and are now being sold online following a March 2021 security incident caused by a vulnerability affecting third-party applications used by the company. ParkMobile recommends changing your password.

Multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-27478, CVE-2020-13556, CVE-2021-27482, CVE-2021-27500, and CVE-2021-27498) in the OpENer stack are being exploited in attacks aimed at supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and other industrial control systems.

Codecov platform used to host code testing reports and statistics has disclosed that an unknown threat actor managed to modify its Bash Uploader on April 1 and expose sensitive information located in customers' CI environments as part of a supply-chain attack that took place in late January.

Security researchers say they have discovered nine vulnerabilities affecting the FreeBSD, Nucleus NET, IPnet, and NetX TCP/IP stacks, collectively dubbed "NAME:WRECK," that could be leveraged to target a variety of servers, medical devices, and industrial devices.

NERC has revealed that 25 percent of approximately 1,500 electric utilities sharing data with the North American power grid say they have installed the malicious SolarWinds software.

Microsoft today has released security updates for Exchange Server that address a set of four vulnerabilities with severity scores ranging from high to critical. CVE-2021-28480 and CVE-2021-28481 being rated as High-risk due to the possibility of remote code execution without the need for authentication or user interaction.

Online trading and discount brokerage firm Upstox has disclosed it suffered a data breach that resulted in more than 2.5 million users' PII being exposed on the dark web.

Netherlands-based logistics and food network operator Bakker Logistiek reportedly suffered a ransomware attack last week during which attackers encrypted devices on its network, disrupted food transportation and fulfillment, and caused cheese and other food shortages in supermarkets throughout the Netherlands.

Ten variants of the Joker Android Trojan managed to slip into the Huawei AppGallery app store and were downloaded by more than 538,000 users, the Joker variants are disguised as apps such as virtual keyboards, camera apps, launchers, online messengers, sticker collections, coloring programs, and a game.

Tasmania's lone casino operator has confirmed it is being held to ransom in a cyber attack that has impacted its pokies machines and hotel bookings system for more than one week.

The incident at Natanz on Sunday morning was not an “accident” and the damage is much graver than what Iran is presenting to the public, Western sources quoted in Israeli media said the attack, which was initially referred to as an “accident” by Iran, was carried out by the Mossad.

Hackers have been spotted leveraging legitimate corporate contact forms in spear-phishing campaigns that threaten enterprise targets with lawsuits and attempt to infect their systems with the "IcedID" modular banking Trojan.

Iran-linked APT group "OilRig" (APT34) has been identified leveraging a new backdoor dubbed "SideTwist" in a spear-phishing attack against a possible Lebanese target in order to exfiltrate sensitive information from the compromised system.

In February 2021, a hacker reportedly began selling 895,000 gift cards and more than 300,000 payment cards on a top-tier Russian-language hacking forum that were stolen during a breach of Cardpool.com.

A vulnerability residing in the “Domain Time II” network time solution can be exploited in Man-on-the-Side (MotS) attacks, cyber-security firm GRIMM warned. Exploit relies on intercepting a UDP update providing a new URL for software update.

Contestants hacked Microsoft's Windows 10 OS twice during the second day of the Pwn2Own 2021 competition, together with the Google Chrome web browser and the Zoom Platform. Note Pwn2Own discovered vulnerabilities are reported to vendors with a 90 day fix window.

PII belonging to thousands of cyber criminals using the "Swarmshop" underground forum was leaked online to another underground forum on March 17, 2021. The database was posted on a different underground forum and contained 12,344 records of the card shop admins, sellers, and buyers including their nicknames, hashed passwords, contact details, history of activity and current balance.