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Ransomware group Akira exploits victims following IT provider breach – 60 and counting
After an attack on a yet-unknown IT provider, Akira has started extorting the victims of the breach. On Friday, Akira uploaded its first batch of 34 victims. Today, it’s uploaded another 26. Here’s what we know about the victims so far: Three attacks appear to be confirmed/connected to breaches from 2024 37 victims are from the United States, four are…
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Akira and Fog ransomware now exploit critical Veeam RCE flaw
Ransomware gangs now exploit a critical security vulnerability that lets attackers gain remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) servers. Code White security researcher Florian Hauser found that the security flaw, now tracked as CVE-2024-40711, is caused by a deserialization of untrusted data weakness that unauthenticated threat actors can exploit in low-complexity attacks. Veeam disclosed the…
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