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The US announced that the 911 S5 (Cloud Router) botnet, likely the world’s largest, has been dismantled and its administrator arrested.

The Seattle Public Library is scrambling to bring systems online after shutting them down to contain a ransomware attack.

The recently disclosed Check Point VPN attacks involve the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2024-24919, which allows hackers to obtain passwords.

San Francisco data privacy startup Transcend secures 40 million in a Series B funding round that brings the total raised to $90 million.

Vulnerabilities in the real-time IoT operating system Eclipse ThreadX before version 6.4 could lead to denial-of-service and code execution.

The US government has announced sanctions against three Chinese nationals accused of creating and operating the 911 S5 proxy botnet.

Data security and AI governance company Zendata has emerged from stealth mode with $2 million in seed funding.

Microsoft dives into the tactics, techniques, and procedures of North Korean threat actor Moonstone Sleet.

Disruptive digital attacks – many traced to Russia-backed groups – have doubled in the European Union in 2024 and are also targeting election-related services, according to the EU’s top cybersecurity official.

The two primary components to the solution are to encrypt company data at all times, and to decrypt only when the file is required for use.

First American will notify 44,000 individuals that their personal information may have been stolen in a December 2023 ransomware attack.

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Denmark-based SIEM company Logpoint has named Mikkel Drucker as its CEO.

Jeff Miller has been named the CIO of Clayco after serving as CISO at Quantinuum.

ZeroFox has appointed David Muse as its new CEO, Andrew McKenna as CFO and James McCarthy as CRO.

Fastly announced that Scott Lovett will join the company as Chief Revenue Officer, effective June 3, 2024.

Digital transformation consulting firm Synechron has hired Aaron Momin as CISO.

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The recently disclosed Check Point VPN attacks involve the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2024-24919, which allows hackers to obtain passwords.

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The US announced that the 911 S5 (Cloud Router) botnet, likely the world’s largest, has been dismantled and its administrator arrested.

The Seattle Public Library is scrambling to bring systems online after shutting them down to contain a ransomware attack.

The recently disclosed Check Point VPN attacks involve the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2024-24919, which allows hackers to obtain passwords.

San Francisco data privacy startup Transcend secures 40 million in a Series B funding round that brings the total raised to $90 million.

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