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Category: Cyber Crime

Are Forgotten AD Service Accounts Leaving You at Risk?

Are Forgotten AD Service Accounts Leaving You at Risk?

For many organizations, Active Directory (AD) service accounts are quiet afterthoughts, persisting in the background long after their original purpose has been forgotten. To make matters worse, these orphaned service accounts (created for legacy applications, scheduled tasks, automation scripts, or test environments) are often left active with non-expiring or stale passwords. It’s no surprise that

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Backups Are Under Attack: How to Protect Your Backups

Backups Are Under Attack: How to Protect Your Backups

Ransomware has become a highly coordinated and pervasive threat, and traditional defenses are increasingly struggling to neutralize it. Today’s ransomware attacks initially target your last line of defense — your backup infrastructure. Before locking up your production environment, cybercriminals go after your backups to cripple your ability to recover, increasing the odds of a ransom

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TP-Link Router Flaw CVE-2023-33538 Under Active Exploit, CISA Issues Immediate Alert

TP-Link Router Flaw CVE-2023-33538 Under Active Exploit, CISA Issues Immediate Alert

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity security flaw in TP-Link wireless routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2023-33538 (CVSS score: 8.8), a command injection bug that could result in the execution of arbitrary system commands when processing the ssid1 parameter in a

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⚡ Weekly Recap: iPhone Spyware, Microsoft 0-Day, TokenBreak Hack, AI Data Leaks and More

⚡ Weekly Recap: iPhone Spyware, Microsoft 0-Day, TokenBreak Hack, AI Data Leaks and More

Some of the biggest security problems start quietly. No alerts. No warnings. Just small actions that seem normal but aren’t. Attackers now know how to stay hidden by blending in, and that makes it hard to tell when something’s wrong. This week’s stories aren’t just about what was attacked—but how easily it happened. If we’re

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