Cyberattack on UK IT Firm Swan Retail Affects 300 Retailers

By Deeba Ahmed

Hundreds of impacted retailers could not process payments, complete orders, or trade online due to the attack on Swan Retail.

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New ‘Carderbee’ APT Targeted Chinese Security Software in Supply Chain Attack

A new APT group called Carderbee has been observed deploying the PlugX backdoor via a supply chain attack targeting organizations in Hong Kong.

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Grip Security Lands $41 Million Series B Financing

Israeli startup Grip Security has banked $41 million in new financing from a group of investors led by Third Point Ventures.

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Anti-Piracy Lessons Enter the School Curriculum: Are You a Thief?

High school students are educated on a wide variety of topics, helping them to understand and become productive members of society. In Denmark, a new course was recently announced by local anti-piracy group Rights Alliance and publisher Gyldendal. With support from the government, the new curriculum educates young Danes on copyright and piracy.

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Carderbee Attacks: Hong Kong Organizations Targeted via Malicious Software Updates

A previously undocumented threat cluster has been linked to a software supply chain attack targeting organizations primarily located in Hong Kong and other regions in Asia. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, is tracking the activity under its insect-themed moniker Carderbee. The attacks, per the cybersecurity firm, leverage a trojanized version of a legitimate software called

Chinese APT Targets Hong Kong in Supply Chain Attack

Dubbed Carderbee, the group used legitimate software and Microsoft-signed malware to spread the Korplug/PlugX backdoor to various Asian targets.

1-15 July 2023 Cyber Attacks Timeline

In the first half of July 2023, I collected 161 events (corresponding to 10.73 events per day), a number that...

Cerby lands $17M to manage access to ‘nonstandard’ enterprise apps

Bel Lepe, a former Google software engineer, tells me that it always seemed risky to him that there were apps business users needed and used, but that IT and security teams were unwilling to approve them because of their lack of support for identity standards. It’s a legitimate issue. According to a Ponemon Institute survey, […]

Cerby Raises $17 Million for Access Management Platform for Nonstandard Applications

Cerby has raised $17 million in Series A funding for its access management platform for applications not supported by identity providers.

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CISA Warns of Another Exploited Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerability

CISA warns that CVE-2023-26359, an Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability patched in March, has been exploited in the wild.

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Generating FLIRT signatures for Nim and other non-C programming languages

Adversaries are increasingly writing malware in programming languages such as Go, Rust, or Nim, because they present challenges to investigators using reverse-engineering tools designed to work best against the C family of languages.

It’s often difficult for reverse engineers examining non-C languages to differentiate between the malware author&

Snatch gang claims the hack of the Department of Defence South Africa

Snatch gang claims the hack of the Department of Defence South Africa and added the military organization to its leak site. The Snatch ransomware group added the Department of Defence South Africa to its data leak site. The mission of the Department of Defence is to provide, manage, prepare and employ defence capabilities commensurate with the […]

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