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Could the Brazilian Supreme Court finally hold people accountable for sharing disinformation?

At most, someone who intentionally or repeatedly shares information on their social platform that’s misleading or downright false may have their account blocked, suspended or deleted.

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OfflRouter Malware Evades Detection in Ukraine for Almost a Decade

Select Ukrainian government networks have remained infected with a malware called OfflRouter since 2015. Cisco Talos said its findings are based on an analysis of over 100 confidential documents that were infected with the VBA macro virus and uploaded to the VirusTotal malware scanning platform. "The documents contained VBA code to drop and run an executable with the name 'ctrlpanel.exe,'"

Break Security Burnout: Combining Leadership With Neuroscience

Industry leaders aim to solve the threat to both the mental health of workers and security of organizations with solutions that recognize the enormous pressures facing cybersecurity professionals.

Various Botnets Pummel Year-Old TP-Link Flaw in IoT Attacks

Moobot, Miori, AGoent, and a Gafgyt variant have joined the infamous Mirai botnet in attacking unpatched versions of vulnerable Wi-Fi routers.

OfflRouter virus causes Ukrainian users to upload confidential documents to VirusTotal

The documents contained malicious VBA code, indicating they may be used as lures to infect organizations.

Cisco Warns of Global Surge in Brute-Force Attacks Targeting VPN and SSH Services

Cisco is warning about a global surge in brute-force attacks targeting various devices, including Virtual Private Network (VPN) services, web application authentication interfaces, and SSH services, since at least March 18, 2024. "These attacks all appear to be originating from TOR exit nodes and a range of other anonymizing tunnels and proxies," Cisco Talos said. Successful attacks could

FBI: Smishing Campaign Lures Victims With Unpaid-Toll Notices

The scam is spreading across the US and impersonates the specific toll-collection services of each state in malicious SMS messages.

Large-scale brute-force activity targeting VPNs, SSH services with commonly used login credentials

Cisco Talos would like to acknowledge Brandon White of Cisco Talos and Phillip Schafer, Mike Moran, and Becca Lynch of the Duo Security Research team for their research that led to the ,identification of these attacks. Cisco Talos is actively monitoring a global increase in brute-force attacks against a variety

Cisco Duo's Multifactor Authentication Service Breached

A third-party telephony service provider for Cisco Duo falls prey to social engineering, and the company advises customer vigilance against subsequent phishing attacks.

Palo Alto Network Issues Hotfixes for Zero-Day Bug in Its Firewall OS

A sophisticated threat actor is leveraging the bug to deploy a Python backdoor for stealing data and executing other malicious actions.