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Rome – A second round of U.S.-Iran nuclear talks are underway, this time in Rome, with President Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi leading the delegations.Why it matters: The talks are taking place with debate still raging within the Trump administration — and between the U.S. and Israel — over whether…
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A secret court hearing on iCloud encryption began on Friday, amid calls in both the UK and US to make the proceedings public. The British government is demanding that Apple create backdoor access, not just for the personal data of British citizens, but for all iCloud users worldwide … more…
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The acting inspector general says the Office of Personnel Management is investigating whether any “emerging threats” have arisen as Elon Musk’s DOGE works to rapidly transform government systems.
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Ongoing attacks leveraging the recently patched high-severity code injection flaw in the Craft content management system, tracked as CVE-2025-23209, have prompted its inclusion in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, with federal agencies urged to remediate the security issue by March 13, The Hacker News reports.
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MalBot December 12, 2024, 2:05am 1 Attackers using U.S., Canadian, Moldovan, Lithuanian, and Dutch IP addresses targeted vulnerable Cleo LexiCom, Harmony, and VLTrader instances to facilitate the writing of new files into the targeted endpoints’ autorun directory, triggering the deployment of XML configuration-containing ZIP files.
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Ongoing attacks leveraging a trio of zero-day flaws impacting I-O Data routers were disclosed by the Japanese computer peripheral products manufacturer, reports SecurityWeek.
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MalBot December 3, 2024, 6:25pm 1 While most city services have not been hobbled by the attack, Hoboken officials advised phone communications with city departments and divisions amid continued efforts to recover its email and Wi-Fi systems.
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Security researchers have disclosed critical vulnerabilities in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops that could allow remote code execution (RCE) attacks.
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MalBot November 1, 2024, 2:25pm 1 Attacks exploiting the authentication weakness within the ‘lighthttpd’ server, tracked as CVE-2024-8957, and the insufficient input sanitization bug, tracked as CVE-2024-8957, could enable camera hijacking and bot compromise, as well as further infiltration of devices within the same network.
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Threat actors have been actively exploiting a high-severity Microsoft SharePoint deserialization flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-38094, and a high-severity Samsung mobile processor use-after-free issue, tracked as CVE-2024-44068, according to The Hacker News.
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US fugitive Nicholas Rossi, whose identity was exposed while being treated for Covid-19 in Glasgow, has admitted he used a false name while in Scotland.
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Few vulnerable Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance instances versions 4.6 patch 518 and earlier were disclosed by Ivanti to have been compromised in intrusions involving the exploitation of three new zero-day flaws in conjunction with the critical path traversal issue, tracked as CVE-2024-8963, reports The Hacker News.
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The French news agency AFP (Agence France-Presse) was hit by a cyberattack on Friday, September 27th, causing disruptions to some of its news delivery systems. Technical experts from AFP, in collaboration with the French National Agency for IT Systems Security (ANSSI), swiftly responded to the breach and are working diligently to restore full functionality.
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BleepingComputer reports that intrusions exploiting two critical SQL injection bugs in Progress Software’s network availability and performance monitoring tool WhatsUp Gold, tracked as CVE-2024-6670 and CVE-2024-6671, have been conducted to facilitate remote code execution just five hours after the publication of proof-of-concept exploit codes by security researcher Sina Kheirkhah on Aug. 30.
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Authorities in the US state of Kentucky were searching for a person of interest in the shooting along Interstate 75 – Copyright AFP/File Valentino Dariell DE SOUSA
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Tewkesbury Borough Council has declared a major incident following a cyberattack that disrupted its operations on Wednesday afternoon. The Tewkesbury Borough Council prompted the council to take immediate action by shutting down its systems to contain the Tewkesbury Borough Council cyberattack.
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A picture released by Yemen’s Huthi Ansarullah Media Centre after the rebels said they had detonated explosives on the Sounion – Copyright ANSARULLAH MEDIA CENTRE/AFP/File –
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BleepingComputer reports that organizations have been warned by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) regarding ongoing intrusions targeting SolarWinds Web Help Desk instances vulnerable to the critical Java deserialization flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-28986, which could be leveraged to facilitate remote code execution.