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Laundry Bear gets the spin cycle.
Unpatched Zimbra servers are being exploited by the Laundry Bear threat group for email theft. The State Department is now imposing visa restrictions on individuals involved in cybercriminal activities. Oracle has released a significant number of security patches, totaling 1,449. A critical vulnerability has been disclosed in OpenAI's ChatGPT Workspace Agents, which researchers found could allow attackers to impersonate insiders. A new benchmark has been developed to evaluate how frontier AI models handle malware reverse engineering. The LunchPoke malware is being used to achieve persistence through the Notepad++ application. A Swiss rail manufacturer has refused to pay a ransom of $12 million. Dave Bittner interviewed Maria Varmazis about her show's transformation into a space cyber briefing, highlighting the increasing importance of space cybersecurity. NASA has partnered with Google to put the Gemma large language model into orbit. Paying ransoms often leads to repeat attacks from cybercriminals.