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The long tail of Clop’s PTC hack is just beginning to emerge

CyberScoop · · US Federal · Data Breaches

The data theft extortion group likely compromised a critical vulnerability affecting PTC’s product lifecycle management software in June, a month before it sent threatening emails to victims. The post The long tail of Clop’s PTC hack is just beginning to emerge appeared first on CyberScoop.

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