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Hackers Use MS Excel Macro to Launch Multi-Stage Malware Attack in Ukraine
A new sophisticated cyber attack has been observed targeting endpoints geolocated to Ukraine with an aim to deploy Cobalt Strike and seize control of the compromised hosts. The attack chain, per Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, involves a Microsoft Excel file that carries an embedded VBA macro to initiate the infection, “The attacker uses a multi-stage malware…
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Snowflake Warns: Targeted Credential Theft Campaign Hits Cloud Customers
Cloud computing and analytics company Snowflake said a “limited number” of its customers have been singled out as part of a targeted campaign. “We have not identified evidence suggesting this activity was caused by a vulnerability, misconfiguration, or breach of Snowflake’s platform,” the company said in a joint statement along with CrowdStrike and Google-owned Mandiant.…
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Lattice Semiconductor CEO Jim Anderson exits, sending stock down
Lattice revenue doubled and stock went up nearly tenfold in his six-year tenure.
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Restaurant Roundup: Time Out, Esquire love Portland food and drink
Restaurant roundup best of lists edition. See who thinks we are tops, plus how you can have a fine dining experience in an urban orchard for a cause.
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Closure of Portland college of Chinese medicine hits students, faculty and alums hard
A building that had once been a huge selling point because a big drag, as one alum put it.
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PacifiCorp chips away at massive Oregon wildfire liability with new $178M settlement
PacifiCorp says it has settled more than 1,500 claims, but it still faces potential liabilities in the billions.
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Portland’s annual Sneaker Week to focus on downtown gatherings
This year’s Sneaker Week will split its focus among downtown and Portland’s quadrants.
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Researchers Uncover RAT-Dropping npm Package Targeting Gulp Users
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new suspicious package uploaded to the npm package registry that’s designed to drop a remote access trojan (RAT) on compromised systems. The package in question is glup-debugger-log, which targets users of the gulp toolkit by masquerading as a “logger for gulp and gulp plugins.” It has been downloaded 175 times…
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Authorities Ramp Up Efforts to Capture the Mastermind Behind Emotet
Law enforcement authorities behind Operation Endgame are seeking information related to an individual who goes by the name Odd and is allegedly the mastermind behind the Emotet malware. Odd is also said to go by the nicknames Aron, C700, Cbd748, Ivanov Odd, Mors, Morse, Veron over the past few years, according to a video released…
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SASE Threat Report: 8 Key Findings for Enterprise Security
Threat actors are evolving, yet Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) remains confined to each isolated point solution. Organizations require a holistic analysis across external data, inbound and outbound threats and network activity. This will enable evaluating the true state of cybersecurity in the enterprise. Cato’s Cyber Threat Research Lab (Cato CTRL, see more details below) has…
