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Fidelity maintains that there’s no indication of a ransomware incident – and that no funds were stolen.

When employees and leaders engage with CISOs early in innovation projects, security concerns are addressed proactively, building trust and ensuring innovation and security coexist.

Vulnerability prioritization has evolved over the years. Several frameworks exist to help organizations make the right decisions when it comes to deciding which patches to apply and when. But are these better than a Magic 8 Ball?

Aside from featuring over 40 million signals from the DNS Research Federation's data platform and the Global Anti-Scam Alliance's comprehensive stakeholder network, the Global Signal Exchange will also contain more than 100,000 bad merchant URLs and one million scam signals from Google.

Such breaches, which were pinned on the dismal security measures of Marriott and subsidiary Starwood Hotels & Resorts, resulted in the exfiltration of individuals' email addresses, birthdates, and other personal details, as well as their passport information, loyalty numbers, and payment card numbers.

Most serious of the resolved vulnerabilities was the critical OS command injection issue, tracked as CVE-2024-9463, which could be exploited to expose firewalls' usernames, cleartext passwords, API keys, and configurations.

Included in the 6.4 GB SQL database were Internet Archive members' email addresses, usernames, Bcrypt-hashed passwords and password change timestamps, as well as other internal details as recent as September 28, when the attack was believed to have taken place.

While some threat actors established fraudulent disaster relief websites as part of phishing attacks aimed at exfiltrating financial details and Social Security numbers from individuals seeking aid, others impersonated Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance providers to create fake claims that enabled relief fund and personal data theft.

Malicious GitHub pages and YouTube videos containing links for purported cracked office software, automated trading bots, and game cheats, have been leveraged to facilitate the download of self-extracting password-protected archives.

While threat actors continued to impersonate employers on job search platforms to lure software developers into participating in an online interview that would be followed by BeaverTail malware compromise, more recent attacks entailed the deployment of a new Qt-based BeaverTail version that enabled browser credential and cryptocurrency wallet data exfiltration.