Dormant North American Networks Suspiciously Resurrected at Once

CIA Controlled Second Swiss Encryption Firm, Report Claims

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Register Now See All Recent Articles at SecurityWeek.Com Tens of Dormant North American Networks Suspiciously Resurrected at Once: More than fifty networks in the North American region suddenly burst to life after being dormant for a long period of time, Spamhaus reveals. Read More Report Claims CIA Controlled Second Swiss Encryption Firm: Swiss politicians have voiced outrage and demanded an investigation after revelations that a second Swiss encryption company was allegedly used by the CIA and its German counterpart to spy on governments worldwide. Read More UK to Ban New Huawei Gear Installations After Sept: U.K. telecom companies won't be allowed to install Huawei equipment in their high-speed 5G networks after September 2021, the British government said Nov. 30, 2020, hardening its line against the Chinese technology company. Read More WebKit Vulnerabilities Allow Remote Code Execution via Malicious Websites: The WebKit browser engine is affected by several vulnerabilities, including ones that can be exploited for remote code execution by convincing the targeted user to visit a malicious website. Read More SD-WAN Product Vulnerabilities Allow Hackers to Steer Traffic, Shut Down Networks: Vulnerabilities discovered by researchers in SD-WAN products from Silver Peak (now owned by HP), Cisco, Citrix and VMware can be exploited to steer traffic or completely shut down a company's network. Read More Vietnam-Linked Cyberspies Use New macOS Backdoor in Attacks: Trend Micro's security researchers have identified a new macOS backdoor that they believe is used by the Vietnamese threat actor OceanLotus. Read More Media Production Giant Banijay Hit by Ransomware: Banijay, one of the world's largest media production and distribution companies, has been hit by the DoppelPaymer ransomware. 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