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The Google campus in Mountain View, California. (brionv, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
Researchers on Thursday reported that hackers are using standard tools within Google Docs/Drive to lead unsuspecting victims to fraudulent websites, stealing credentials in the process.
In a blog post, Avanan said hackers are bypassing static link scanners by hosting their attacks on publicly-known services.
Gil Friedrich, co-founder and CEO of Avanan,…

The London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement (LORCA) has launched a new initiative designed to propel the growth of UK cyber startups.
LORCA Ignite will see six of the most successful companies that have graduated from the LORCA accelerator program during the past three years participate in a new, intensive program, which will help them achieve rapid scale and commercial growth.
LORCA is a government-backed initiative that started in 2018 to accelerate the growth of UK cyber startups.…

Cops arrest six, seize cars and cash in splashy raid, and experts are applauding.
Yesterday’s noisy raid of the Clop ransomware gang in Ukraine was a major win according to most experts throughout the cybersecurity community, who said the moment marks a shift in the international war on ransomware.
The raid, according to Ukrainian reports translated by eSpire analysts, included the arrests of six people in Kiev, the seizure of $185,000 in cash, a Tesla, a Mercedes and their computer equipment.…

Die Polizei verhaftet sechs Personen, beschlagnahmt Autos und Bargeld in einer aufsehenerregenden Razzia, und die Experten applaudieren.
Die gestrige aufsehenerregende Razzia bei der Ransomware-Bande Clop in der Ukraine war nach Ansicht der meisten Experten in der Cybersecurity-Community ein großer Sieg, der eine Wende im internationalen Krieg gegen Ransomware markiert.
Die Razzia umfasste laut ukrainischen Berichten, die von eSpire-Analysten übersetzt wurden, die Verhaftung von sechs Personen…

Australians’ lives were disrupted on Thursday by a widespread internet outage that impacted the country’s mail service and multiple businesses, including banks and airlines.
The outage began in the early hours and was caused by a problem at Akamai Technologies, a global content delivery network (CDN) and cybersecurity and cloud service provider.
Akamai, which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has acknowledged the issue, but has not yet disclosed the cause of service disruptions to its…

Die Netzwerkgeräte der Einstiegsklasse für KMUs könnten Angriffe aus der Ferne ermöglichen, die darauf abzielen, Informationen zu stehlen, Malware einzuschleusen und den Betrieb zu stören.
Cisco hat mehrere hochgradige Sicherheitslücken in den Cisco Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches markiert und gepatcht, die Session-Hijacking, beliebige Codeausführung, Cross-Site-Scripting und HTML-Injection ermöglichen könnten.
Darüber hinaus wurden Fixes für hochgradige Probleme im AnyConnect Secure…

The intro-level networking gear for SMBs could allow remote attacks designed to steal information, drop malware and disrupt operations.
Cisco has flagged and patched several high-severity security vulnerabilities in its Cisco Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches that could allow session hijacking, arbitrary code execution, cross-site scripting and HTML injection.
It also issued fixes for high-severity problems in the AnyConnect secure mobility client, the Cisco DNA Center and the Cisco…

Medizinisches Personal in einer Notfalleinrichtung prüft Aufzeichnungen, während sie Patienten auf das Coronavirus testen 15. April 2020 in Woodbridge, Virginia. Der Entwurf einer Anleitung ist jetzt für öffentliche Kommentare verfügbar, um einen einheitlichen Standard für den Patientenabgleich im gesamten Gesundheitssektor zu entwickeln (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Das US-Gesundheitsministerium (Department of Health and Human Services) hat den ersten Entwurf der technischen…