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Cl0p ransomware group uses its Dark Web leak site to identify five new victims of MOVEit cyberattacks.

Microsoft has disclosed that it's detected a spike in credential-stealing attacks conducted by the Russian state-affiliated hacker group known as Midnight Blizzard. The intrusions, which made use of residential proxy services to obfuscate the source IP address of the attacks, target governments, IT service providers, NGOs, defense, and critical manufacturing sectors, the tech giant's threat

The newly discovered Chinese nation-state actor known as Volt Typhoon has been observed to be active in the wild since at least mid-2020, with the hacking crew linked to never-before-seen tradecraft to retain remote access to targets of interest. The findings come from CrowdStrike, which is tracking the adversary under the name Vanguard Panda. "The adversary consistently employed ManageEngine

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a batch of six flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. This comprises three vulnerabilities that Apple patched this week (CVE-2023-32434, CVE-2023-32435, and CVE-2023-32439), two flaws in VMware (CVE-2023-20867 and CVE-2023-20887), and one shortcoming impacting Zyxel

Plus: Discord has a child predator problem, fears rise of China spying from Cuba, and hackers try to blackmail Reddit.

Integration provides threat intel teams with an early warning system for geopolitical events that could trigger cyberattacks.

The issue was addressed with additional permissions checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.4, iOS 15.7.6 and iPadOS 15.7.6, macOS Monterey 12.6.6. A sandboxed app may be able to observe system-wide network connections

A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.4, macOS Big Sur 11.7.7, macOS Monterey 12.6.6. An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system

A permissions issue was addressed by removing vulnerable code and adding additional checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.4. An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences

A type confusion issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.5 and iPadOS 16.5, macOS Ventura 13.4, watchOS 9.5, tvOS 16.5. An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges