Tag: service
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UK to ban public sector from paying ransomware demands
Ransomware, considered by British authorities to be the UK’s greatest cybercrime threat, costing the nation billions of pounds and with the capbility to bring essential services to a standstill, is in the gunsights of government. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/uk-to-ban-public-sector-from-paying-ransomware-demands
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Cisco confirms active exploitation of ISE and ISE-PIC flaws
Cisco warns of active exploits targeting Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE-PIC flaws, first observed in July 2025. Cisco confirmed attempted exploitation in the wild of recently disclosed ISE and ISE-PIC flaws (CVE-2025-20281, CVE-2025-20282, CVE-2025-20337), updating its advisory after detecting attacks in July 2025. >>Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE…
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How AI, Automation and Real-Time Tools Are Redefining Claims
Liberty General’s Sachin Joshi on Blending Technology and Empathy for Faster Claims. AI, automation and real-time tools are reshaping insurance claims. We blend technology with empathy to deliver faster, smarter and more transparent claims, said Sachin Joshi, president of claims, operations and customer service at Liberty General Insurance. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Maximum severity Cisco ISE vulnerabilities exploited by attackers
One or more vulnerabilities affecting Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) are being exploited in the wild, Cisco has confirmed by updating the security advisory for the … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/23/maximum-severity-cisco-ise-vulnerabilities-exploited-by-attackers/
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How to harden your Active Directory against Kerberoasting
Kerberoasting gives attackers offline paths to crack service account password, without triggering alerts. Learn from Specops Software how to protect your Active Directory with stronger SPN password policies and reduced attack surfaces. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/how-to-harden-your-active-directory-against-kerberoasting/
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CISA warns of hackers exploiting SysAid vulnerabilities in attacks
CISA has warned that attackers are actively exploiting two security vulnerabilities in the SysAid IT service management (ITSM) software to hijack administrator accounts. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-hackers-exploiting-sysaid-vulnerabilities-in-attacks/
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Operator of Jetflix illegal streaming service gets 7 years in prison
Tags: serviceThe ringleader of the Jetflicks illegal paid streaming operation, a massive service with tens of thousands of subscribers, was sentenced to seven years in prison. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/operator-of-jetflix-illegal-streaming-service-gets-7-years-in-prison/
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Clorox Files Lawsuit Against Cognizant Over Employee Password Leak to Hackers
The Clorox Company filed a major lawsuit against IT services provider Cognizant on July 22, 2025, seeking $380 million in damages over a devastating cyberattack that the cleaning products giant claims was enabled by Cognizant’s security failures. The lawsuit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court, alleges that Cognizant employees operating Clorox’s service desk simply handed…
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MSPs unprepared to deal with financial impact of cyber attacks
Insights into the attitude of managed service providers to ransomware from CyberSmart has exposed a mixed response towards planning for the worst First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/microscope/news/366627764/MSPs-unprepared-to-deal-with-financial-impact-of-cyber-attacks
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Cisco Alerts on ISE RCE Vulnerability Actively Exploited
Cisco has issued an urgent security advisory warning that a set of critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities affecting its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) products are being actively exploited in the wild. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2025-20281, CVE-2025-20282, and CVE-2025-20337, carry the highest possible severity rating, with a CVSS base…
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Australian Regulator Alleges Financial Firm Exposed Clients to Unacceptable Cyber Risks
ASIC said the financial services firm’s failings led to a data breach impacting nearly 10,000 clients First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/australian-alleges-financial-cyber/
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Windows Server KB5062557 causes cluster, VM issues
Microsoft is asking businesses to reach out for support to mitigate a known issue causing Cluster service and VM restart issues after installing this month’s Windows Server 2019 security updates. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-windows-server-kb5062557-causes-cluster-vm-issues/
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Sophos Emergency Incident-Response-Service bündelt führende Cyber-Expertise
Mit Sophos Emergency Incident Response ersetzt Sophos den bisherigen Rapid Response Service durch ein leistungsstärkeres, integriertes Angebot. Unternehmen, die von einem Angriff betroffen sind oder einen Verdacht haben können sich sofort an das Sophos-Team wenden. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/sophos-emergency-incident-response-service-buendelt-fuehrende-cyber-expertise/a41453/
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Cybercriminals from GLOBAL GROUP Target All Platforms with Golang Ransomware
A notorious ransomware actor known by the alias $$$ has unveiled GLOBAL GROUP, positioning it as a cutting-edge Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation. Promising automated negotiations, cross-platform payloads, and lucrative affiliate splits, the group claims innovation in scalable extortion. However, deep forensic analysis of malware samples, infrastructure setups, and operational logic uncovers that GLOBAL is merely a…
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Microsoft ‘digital escorts’ reveal crucial US counterintelligence blind spot
Tags: access, china, cio, cloud, compliance, country, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, firewall, framework, google, government, injection, intelligence, law, microsoft, military, oracle, risk, service, threat, update, vulnerabilityWhat the program was, and how it worked: The digital escort model, according to ProPublica, was designed to comply with federal contracting rules that prohibit foreign nationals from directly accessing sensitive government systems. Under this framework:China-based engineers would file support tickets for tasks such as firewall updates or bug fixes.US-based escorts, often former military personnel…
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UK may be seeking to pull back from Apple encryption row with US
UK government officials say that attempts by the Home Office to require Apple to introduce ‘back doors’ to its secure encrypted storage service will cross US red lines First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366627928/UK-may-be-seeking-to-pull-back-from-Apple-encryption-row-with-US
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UK blames Russia’s infamous ‘Fancy Bear’ group for Microsoft cloud hacks
Authentic Antics malware tool to target Microsoft cloud accounts were the handiwork of the notorious Russian Fancy Bear hacking group, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said.Authentic Antics was discovered after a cyberattack in 2023 which prompted an NCSC technical teardown of the malware that it published in May this year. The agency…
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File Transfer Flaw Blamed in Health Breach Affecting 233,000
Cierant Corp. Says Cleo MFT Zero-Day Exploit Compromised Health Plan Client Data. A Connecticut-based firm that provides print and electronic document management services to health plans has reported to regulators that an exploit of a vulnerability in file transfer software from third-party vendor Cleo has resulted in a health data compromise affecting nearly 233,000 people.…
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UK Sanctions 3 Russian Military Cyber Units
Leaders of the Russian Military Intelligence Units of the GRU Also Targeted. The U.K. government on Friday sanctioned three Russian Military Intelligence Service units 29155, 26165 and 74455 in the United Kingdom and Ukraine. The sanctions also targeted 18 Russian officials for their role in GRU cyber operations dating back to 2013. First seen on…
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APT41 Hackers Exploiting Atexec and WmiExec Windows Modules for Malware Deployment
Kaspersky MDR analysts recently uncovered a sophisticated targeted attack by the Chinese-speaking cyberespionage group APT41 against government IT services in the African region, marking a notable escalation in the group’s activity on the continent, which had previously seen minimal incidents from this actor. The attackers embedded hardcoded names of internal services, IP addresses, and proxy…
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Hackers hit Dell product demo platform, but impact is limited
A Dell spokesperson said the site is “intentionally separated from customer and partner systems, as well as Dell’s networks and is not used in the provision of services to Dell customers.” First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/hackers-hit-dell-product-demo-platform-limited-impact
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Iran-Linked DCHSpy Android Malware Masquerades as VPN Apps to Spy on Dissidents
Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed new Android spyware artifacts that are likely affiliated with the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and have been distributed to targets by masquerading as VPN apps and Starlink, a satellite internet connection service offered by SpaceX.Mobile security vendor Lookout said it discovered four samples of a surveillanceware tool it…
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China-Linked Hackers Launch Targeted Espionage Campaign on African IT Infrastructure
The China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as APT41 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting government IT services in the African region.”The attackers used hardcoded names of internal services, IP addresses, and proxy servers embedded within their malware,” Kaspersky researchers Denis Kulik and Daniil Pogorelov said. “One of the C2s [command-and-control servers] was a…
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AI-Powered Cloaking Tools Help Threat Actors Hide Malicious Domains from Security Scans
Threat actors are increasingly adopting AI-powered cloaking services to obfuscate phishing domains, counterfeit e-commerce sites, and malware distribution endpoints from automated security scanners. This technique, known as cloaking, involves dynamically serving innocuous >>white pages>black pages.
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New Mimecast Channel Chief On ‘Unique Service Opportunity’ For MSPs
Micheal McCollough, a longtime cybersecurity channel executive formerly of vendors including Imperva and Akamai, has been hired by Mimecast as its new channel chief, he said in an interview with CRN. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/new-mimecast-channel-chief-on-unique-service-opportunity-for-msps
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Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore
AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/replit_saastr_vibe_coding_incident/
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Neues Handbuch von Robert Scholderer erschienen: Aufbau und Organisation von IT-Services
Tags: serviceFirst seen on datensicherheit.de Jump to article: www.datensicherheit.de/neu-handbuch-robert-scholderer-aufbau-organisation-it-services
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7-Zip Vulnerability Lets Malicious RAR5 Files Crash Systems
A critical denial-of-service vulnerability has been discovered in 7-Zip that allows attackers to crash systems using specially crafted RAR5 archive files. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-53816, affects the popular compression software’s RAR5 decoder and can lead to memory corruption and system crashes when processing malicious archives. Technical Details of the Vulnerability Security researcher Jaroslav LobaÄevski…
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Microsoft releases emergency patches for SharePoint RCE flaws exploited in attacks
Microsoft has released emergency SharePoint security updates for two zero-day vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771 that have compromised services worldwide in “ToolShell” attacks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-releases-emergency-patches-for-sharepoint-rce-flaws-exploited-in-attacks/