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As many are preparing for the holiday season, the US DHS, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is projecting record-breaking travel for Thanksgiving in the next three (3) days.  TSA is prepared to screen more than 18 million people from Tuesday, 26 November, to Monday, 2 December, a 6% increase from last year.  Passenger volumes reached a record high in 2024, too, with a 17% increase from 2022.

TSA believes the three busiest days will be Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving and Sund

The cost of zero-day exploits has always been high, especially if they allow an attacker to remotely execute code on a host machine.  But why pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a 0-day when a relatively simple drive-by attack doesn’t need one and can achieve much the same result?  That’s what interested an Imperva security researcher who has published a report on new drive-by attack using something called the Evil Code Editor.  Here’s what you need to know.

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A major cyber-attack occurred just before the Fourth of July holiday in 2021, affecting at least 200 US companies.  The attack was a ransomware attack that occurred first at Kaseya, a Florida-based IT company, and then spread through the corporate networks that use its software.  The attack affected multiple managed service providers and their customers.  The REvil ransomware gang was behind the attack.  Please stay vigilant during all holiday times.

At least 200 US companies were hit by a major

Our friends at Fortinet, https://www.fortinet.com has patched a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in its FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) for managing endpoint devices.  The flaw, identified as CVE-2024-48788, stems from an SQL injection error in a direct-attached storage component of the server.  It gives unauthenticated attackers a way to execute arbitrary code and commands with system admin privileges on affected systems, using specially crafted requests.[1]

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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning of a new trend of dual ransomware attacks targeting the same victims, at least since July 2023.  "During these attacks, cyber threat actors deployed two different ransomware variants against victim companies from the following variants: AvosLocker, Diamond, Hive, Karakurt, LockBit, Quantum, and Royal," the FBI said in an alert. "Variants were deployed in various combinations."

See:  https://www.ic3.gov/Media/News/2023/230928.pdf

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released a this joint CSA to disseminate known ransomware IOCs and TTPs associated with the Snatch ransomware variant.  

Since mid-2021, Snatch threat actors have consistently evolved their tactics to take advantage of current trends in the cybercriminal space and leveraged successes of other ransomware variants’ operations.  Snatch threat actors have targeted a wide range of critical i

CISA Summary - Note: #StopRansomware is an CISA effort to publish advisories for network defenders that detail various ransomware variants and various ransomware threat actors.  These #StopRansomware advisories detail historically and recently observed tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) to help organizations protect against ransomware.  Visit stopransomware.gov to see all #StopRansomware advisories and to learn about other ransomware threats and no-cos

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a joint Cybersecurity Advisory outlining the growing international threat posed by ransomware over the past year.

The advisory titled “2021 Trends Show Increased Globalized Threat of Ransomware”[1] outlines top trends seen across three nation