The APT28 group has been spotted spreading rogue emails to Ukrainian government
agencies. The infamous Advanced Persistence Threat (APT) gang is leading a
campaign to flood its targets with deceptive messages about Windows updates in a
bid to spread data-stealing malware on compromised machines.

According to the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA), threat
actors sent fake Windows Update emails throughout April, spoofing the email
addresses of government agencies’ system admini

Threat actors are actively exploiting an unpatched five-year-old flaw impacting TBK digital video recording (DVR) devices, according to an advisory issued by Fortinet FortiGuard Labs.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical authentication bypass issue that could be exploited by remote actors to gain elevated permissions.
“The 5-year-old vulnerability (

Vulnerabilities in a software implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) that could be weaponized to trigger a DoS condition on BGP peers. Forescout Vedere Labs researchers discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the software implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). The issues reside in the BGP message parsing in version 8.4 of FRRouting implementation, a […]

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Anyone can fall victim to fraud, but in the Netherlands, young people are hit
the hardest.

Dutch citizens aged 18 to 25 were reported as the group most at risk of attacks
such as phishing, identity theft and online fraud in 2019, according to a survey
on cybersecurity and cybercrime conducted by Statistics Netherlands
[https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2019/29/1-2-million-cybercrime-victims].

In 2020, 42% of all Dutch citizens aged 16 or over suffered an attempted fraud.
This troubling figure has

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisory about a critical flaw affecting ME RTU remote terminal units.
The security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-2131, has received the highest severity rating of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system for its low attack complexity.
“Successful exploitation of this

What are the Benefits of a Password Manager?
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Passwords are essential when keeping your information safe on your devices. But unfortunately, many people use weak or the same password, making it easy for hackers to crack them. Research shows that 52% of people reuse passwords for multiple accounts. Luckily, password managers can help by creating and storing strong passwords for different websites and apps […]

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A joint operation conducted by the FBI and Ukrainian police seized 9 crypto exchanges used by cybercriminal groups for money laundering. The Cyber ​​Police Department together with the Main Investigative Department of the National Police, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine and in cooperation with the FBI conducted an international operation that seized […]

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