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[ad_1] The GIFT Nifty recorded a 0.10% loss during Friday’s early trading session, with a value of 19,537.5 indicating a flat opening for domestic indices NSE Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex. Benchmark indices NSE Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex ended Thursday’s session in the green. The Nifty 50 advanced 29.45 points to 19,413.75 and the Sensex gained 0.25% to 65,558.89.   “Today’s domestic rally was supported by the contra bet buying of the IT stocks which was supported by stable margins, new generation business opportunities and moderation of USD, as latest US inflation is fast approaching the Fed’s target levels. The…

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[ad_1] Ransomware gangs have long sought pain points where their extortion demands have the greatest leverage. Now an investigation from NBC News has made clear what that merciless business model looks like when it targets kids: One ransomware group’s giant leak of sensitive files from the Minneapolis school system exposes thousands of children at their most vulnerable, complete with behavioral and psychological reports on individual students and highly sensitive documentation of cases where they’ve allegedly been abused by teachers and staff.We’ll get to that. But first, WIRED contributor Kim Zetter broke the news this week that the Russian hackers who…

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[ad_1] In November 2020, months after the DOJ completed the mitigation of its breach, Mandiant discovered that it had been hacked, and traced its breach to the Orion software on one of its servers the following month. An investigation of the software revealed that it contained a backdoor that the hackers had embedded in the Orion software while it was being compiled by SolarWinds in February 2020. The tainted software went out to about 18,000 SolarWinds customers, who downloaded it between March and June, right around the time the DOJ discovered the anomalous traffic exiting its Orion server. The hackers…

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[ad_1] The cybersecurity industry has scrambled in recent weeks to understand the origins and fallout of the breach of 3CX, a VoIP provider whose software was corrupted by North Korea–linked hackers in a supply chain attack that seeded out malware to potentially hundreds of thousands of its customers. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant now has an answer to the mystery of how 3CX was penetrated by those state-sponsored hackers: The company was one of an untold number of victims infected with the corrupted software of another company—a rare, or perhaps even unprecedented, example of how a single group of hackers used one…

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