{"id":2301,"date":"2024-10-14T09:15:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/10\/14\/critical-veeam-vulnerability-exploited-to-spread-akira-and-fog-ransomware\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:15:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:15:10","slug":"critical-veeam-vulnerability-exploited-to-spread-akira-and-fog-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/10\/14\/critical-veeam-vulnerability-exploited-to-spread-akira-and-fog-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Veeam Vulnerability Exploited to Spread Akira and Fog Ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat actors are actively attempting to exploit a now-patched security flaw in Veeam Backup &amp; Replication to deploy Akira and Fog ransomware.<br \/>\nCybersecurity vendor Sophos said it has been tracking a series of attacks in the past month leveraging compromised VPN credentials and CVE-2024-40711 to create a local account and deploy the ransomware.<br \/>\nCVE-2024-40711, rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the\u00a0Threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a now-patched security flaw in Veeam Backup &amp; Replication to deploy Akira and Fog ransomware.<br \/>\nCybersecurity vendor Sophos said it has been tracking a series of attacks in the past month leveraging compromised VPN credentials and CVE-2024-40711 to create a local account and deploy the ransomware.<br \/>\nCVE-2024-40711, rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat actors are actively attempting to exploit a now-patched security flaw in Veeam Backup &amp; Replication to deploy Akira and Fog ransomware. Cybersecurity vendor Sophos said it has been tracking a series of attacks in the past month leveraging compromised VPN credentials and CVE-2024-40711 to create a local account and deploy the ransomware. CVE-2024-40711, rated&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/10\/14\/critical-veeam-vulnerability-exploited-to-spread-akira-and-fog-ransomware\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Critical Veeam Vulnerability Exploited to Spread Akira and Fog Ransomware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}