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Google names 97 observed zero-day vulnerabilities
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There are many zero-day vulnerabilities, but not all of them are widely exploited. Google and Mandiant observed 97 zero-day vulnerabilities that were heavily exploited - an increase of 50 percent compared to the previous year. Google and Mandiant released a new study that observed 2023 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild in 97. That's over 50 percent more than in 2022 (62 vulnerabilities), but less than the record-breaking 106 vulnerabilities exploited in 2021. TAG and Mandiant were responsible for the original discovery of 29 of these…

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Cyber ​​attack on Frankfurt IT service provider Elabs
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Already on August 08.08.2022th, 08.08.2022, the provider of IT services Elabs in Frankfurt/Main had to shut down its systems due to a cyber attack. Again a German provider was hit. It is not known whether data was encrypted or whether a ransom was demanded. The IT service provider Elabs immediately commented on the cyber attack and published a report: “On August XNUMXth, XNUMX, unknown persons carried out a cyber attack on the IT network of the Elabs company. All of the headquarters' IT network systems were then shut down and disconnected from the network in accordance with the emergency plan. The Elabs AG crisis team has informed the security authorities and is currently working with IT experts under high pressure to…

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Data on the dark web after a cyber attack on the city of Schriesheim
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Already on April 18 there was a cyber attack on the systems of the city of Schriesheim in Baden-Württemberg. Shortly thereafter, data loss was also confirmed. Various media even speak of 170 GB of data, which has also appeared for sale on the Darknet. To this day, the city of Schriesheim can only be reached to a limited extent after the cyber attack. According to their own information, the city's specialists are still in the process of repairing the systems or even setting them up again. The data that was stolen from the city of Schriesheim's servers in the course of the cyber attack has now also been published on the Darknet.

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