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Attacks targeting a high-severity use-after-free Adobe Acrobat Reader flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-21608, have prompted the inclusion of the bug in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, reports The Hacker News.

Caesars Entertainment disclosed that information from an undisclosed number of individuals, including 41,397 Maine residents, have been stolen following a ransomware attack by ALPHV/BlackCat affiliate Scattered Spider, according to The Register.

SiliconAngle reports that U.S. engineering firm and building materials producer Simpson Manufacturing had its IT infrastructure and apps disrupted as a result of a cyberattack.

Air Canada breach admitted by BianLian ransomware gang Air Canada had 210 GB of data claimed to be stolen by the BianLian ransomware operation during a recent data breach, BleepingComputer reports.

Data breaches have been reported by two-thirds of organizations with threat-based security measures over the past two years, while education continued to be one of the sectors most likely to be impacted by cyberattacks this year amid increasingly diverse threats, reports SiliconAngle.

BleepingComputer reports that WordPress sites could be taken over by a new backdoor masquerading as a legitimate caching plugin.

The company has taken down its systems in an effort to determine the scope of the attack.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been noted by Progress Software to have launched an investigation into the widespread hack of its MOVEit file transfer app, which has so far impacted 2,546 organizations and exposed information from over 64 million individuals, TechCrunch reports.

Cofense researchers say new attacks with LinkedIn Smart Links target user email credentials mostly in the financial and manufacturing sectors.

Megjelent a SANS és a Nemzetbiztonsági Szakszolgálat Nemzeti Kibervédelmi Intézet közös kiadványának 2023. október havi száma, amelyben a szoftverek frissítésével foglalkozunk.