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2025-02-10 - cyber news summary
The most commonly mentioned topics in these articles include cybersecurity threats and malicious activities, endpoint detection and response and host-based intrusion detection tools, government demands for backdoor access to data, and new cybersecurity practices and tools.
In particular, the XE Group has shifted from credit card skimming to exploiting zero-days, evidenced by a recent attack involved a VeraCore zero-day to deploy reverse shells and web shells (source).
Meanwhile, the UK government is demanding Apple create an iCloud backdoor, raising concerns over end-to-end encryption and user privacy (source).
Credit card skimmers have also been deployed on Magento stores using the Google Tag Manager (source).
In Georgia, the Memorial Hospital and Manor alerted 120,000 individuals of a data breach due to a ransomware attack in November (source).
The cybersecurity community is recommending strengthening Okta security settings, given its critical role in identity infrastructure (source).
Lastly, various tools have been highlighted, such as BestEDROfTheMarket for endpoint detection and response testing, AgentSmith HIDS for host-based intrusion detection, and padre for Padding Oracle attack exploitation (source 1, source 2, source 3).
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