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This month saw keylogger AgentTesla take first place as the most widespread malware, impacting 7% of organisations worldwide.

October 2022’s Most Wanted Malware: AgentTesla Knocks Formbook off Top Spot and New Text4Shell Vulnerability Disclosed Check Point Research (...)

A warning from the NSA about nation-state attacks, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It's Wednesday, October 19th, 2022. I'm Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. The Russian cyber attacks that accompanied the invasion of Ukraine are just another sign that the threat of nation-state-backed attackers are increasing. That was the message

On October 19, 2022, Microsoft confirmed that thousands of users' sensitive information was exposed due to a security incident dubbed "BlueBleed".

Wordfence, a WordPress security company, has discovered exploitation attempts by hackers targeting the new Text4Shell vulnerability.

A new ransomware data removal tool is found, a warning that exploit proofs-of-concept in Github may not be safe, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It's Monday, October 24th, 2022. I'm Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. Many ransomware gangs use affiliates to initially break into the networks of targets. Those affiliates

Researchers say comparisons to Log4Shell were overblown and misleading, but the "Text4Shell" vulnerability doesn't need to rise to that level to be taken seriously by security teams.

The newly disclosed RCE bug stems from the insecure implementation of Commons Text's variable interpolation feature, but it is hard to exploit

SecurityWeek reports that while cybersecurity experts have compared the critical Apache Commons Text security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-42889, to the Log4Shell flaw, it is not expected to be as widespread as the latter.