SIM Card Ownership Slashed in Burkina Faso

Users could hold up to five SIM cards previously, but now they can only have two; it's a move that the government says is intended to cut down mobile spam levels.

https://www.darkreading.com/dr-global/si...rkina-faso

Ducktail Infostealer, DarkGate RAT Linked to Same Threat Actors

Vietnamese cybercrime groups are using multiple different MaaS infostealers and RATs to target the digital marketing sector.

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...eat-actors

DoD Gets Closer to Nominating Cyber Policy Chief

Though there is speculation regarding potential candidates, the Department of Defense will likely not nominate someone in the near term.

https://www.darkreading.com/operations/d...licy-chief

Cisco Finds New Zero Day Bug, Pledges Patches in Days

A patch for the max severity zero-day bug tracked as CVE-2023-20198 is coming soon, but the bug has already led to the compromise of tens of thousands of Cisco devices. And now, there's a new unpatched threat.

https://www.darkreading.com/application-...es-in-days

Critical SolarWinds RCE Bugs Enable Unauthorized Network Takeover

SolarWinds' access controls contain five high and three critical-severity security vulnerabilities that need to be patched yesterday.

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...k-takeover

From Snooze to Enthuse: Making Security Awareness Training 'Sticky'

Most companies offer some kind of awareness training these days. But how much of those lessons are employees actually retaining?

https://www.darkreading.com/edge/from-sn...hat-sticks

More Okta Customers Hacked

Attackers compromised customer support files containing cookies and session tokens, which could result in malicious impersonation of valid Okta users.

https://www.darkreading.com/application-...rt-service

9 Innovative Ways to Boost Security Hygiene for Cyber Awareness Month

If we really want to move the dial on security habits, it's time to think beyond phishing tests. Our panel of CISOs and other security heavy-hitters offer expert tips that go beyond the obvious.

https://www.darkreading.com/edge/9-innov...ness-month

Kwik Trip finally confirms cyberattack was behind ongoing outage


Two weeks into an ongoing IT outage, Kwik Trip finally confirmed that it's investigating a cyberattack impacting the convenience store chain's internal network since October 9. [...]


https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/se...ng-outage/

Critical RCE flaws found in SolarWinds access audit solution


Security researchers found three critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in the SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) product that remote attackers could use to run code with SYSTEM privileges. [...]


https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/se...-solution/