A malware distribution operation known as Balada Injector has been active since 2017, and it is believed that it has infected over a million WordPress sites. According to GoDaddy’s Sucuri, the massive campaign “leverages all known and recently discovered theme and plugin vulnerabilities” to compromise WordPress sites. The attacks have been observed to occur in […]

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Apple is backporting two security patches released on Friday. The updated patches address zero-day vulnerabilities on iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Details About the Vulnerabilities The first flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-28206, is an out-of-bounds write issue. This bug may permit threat actors to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges on unpatched devices using malicious apps. Apple […]

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Ensuring an efficient threat detection and response (D&R) strategy for your organization is vital for every sector of its activity. But growing workloads and limited resources are only two of the problems you encounter in your search for the best solution. Although there are a variety of D&R tools, it can be difficult to pinpoint […]

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The world of healthcare is rapidly changing. Technological advancements expose organizations to cyber risks, including ransomware, malware, breaches, viruses, and vulnerabilities. The combination of poor cybersecurity practices, digital transformation in care delivery, operational touchpoints, and sensitive data storage makes the healthcare industry a prime target for cybercriminals. While there is no doubt that healthcare service […]

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Belgian company SD Worx shut down all IT systems for its UK and Ireland services after suffering a cyberattack. The European HR and payroll management company services 5.2 million employees for over 82,000 companies. The company started notifying customers that its UK and Ireland division suffered a cyberattack leading them to shut down IT systems […]

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The Round-robin DNS is a load-balancing technique that helps manage traffic and avoid overloading servers. Multiple IP addresses are assigned to a single domain name; each time the domain name is resolved, the returned IP address is picked in a circular order. The method aims to distribute the traffic load evenly between the servers associated […]

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By Timothy Liu, CTO and co-founder, Hillstone Networks In the cybersecurity world, buzzwords seem proliferate with the changing of the wind. Currently zero-trust network access, or ZTNA, is getting its […]

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Almost 90,000 clients’ personal information was compromised in the cyberattack on the prestigious law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. The law firm informed its clients on March 30, 2023, that on November 15, 2022, an unauthorized third party acquired remote access to the firm’s computers. According to reports, the threat actors could extract sensitive information from […]

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