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Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about eight new malware samples that were developed and deployed by Russian hackers in recent attacks. Also, read about how the operators of the REvil ransomware strain have “acquired” the source code of the KPOT trojan in an auction held on a hacker forum last month. Read…

Three federal agencies – the FBI and the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services – issued a security alert for hospitals last week that they have credible evidence of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and health systems. The call to action is for the entities to protect their network infrastructure from these threats immediately. Last week, ransomware hit six hospitals that took their systems down. These six hospitals…

Researchers disclose critical zero-day vulnerability in Oracle Solaris that was exploited in the wild by an uncategorized threat actor. Background On November 2, researchers at FireEye published a blog post detailing findings from a Mandiant incident response investigation that led to the discovery of an uncharacterized (UNC) group they refer to as UNC1945. As part of this investigation, they discovered that UNC1945 was leveraging a critical Oracle Solaris zero-day vulnerability to install a backdoor as…