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"The Hidden Injustice of Cyberattacks"Cyberattacks can impact anyone, but low-income families, communities of color, military veterans, people with disabilities, immigrant communities, and other marginalized groups are often disproportionately affected and lack the resources to prote -
"AWS SNS Hijackings Fuel Cloud Smishing Campaign"Threat actors are using Amazon Web Services Simple Notification Service (AWS SNS) and a custom bulk-messaging spam script called SNS Sender in an ongoing "smishing" campaign that impersonates the US Postal Service.
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"RustDoor macOS Backdoor Targets Cryptocurrency Firms with Fake Job Offers"Multiple cryptocurrency sector companies are being targeted in an ongoing malware campaign involving a newly discovered Apple macOS backdoor called RustDoor.
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"Alpha Ransomware Linked to NetWalker Operation Dismantled in 2021"Security researchers have discovered that the Alpha ransomware payload and modus operandi overlap with the now-defunct NetWalker ransomware operation. NetWalker was a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) active between October 2019 and January 2021.
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"Charges Filed in DDoS-For-Hire Attacks, Including Baltimore Schools Incident"A Los Angeles man accused of running a "booter" service that facilitated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks has been charged in federal court.
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"Cyber Threats Cast Shadow Over 2024 Elections"Twenty-seven percent of countries holding national elections in 2024 face the highest cyber threat levels, with multiple priority adversary groups and many state-backed groups linked to priority adversary countries.
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"Zeus, IcedID Malware Gangs Leader Pleads Guilty, Faces 40 Years in Prison"Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, one of the heads of the notorious JabberZeus cybercrime gang, has recently pleaded guilty to charges related to his leadership roles in the Zeus and IcedID malware groups.
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"FBI Dismantles Ubiquiti Router Botnet Controlled by Russian Cyberspies"The US government recently neutralized another small office/home office (SOHO) router botnet used by Russian cyberspies in malware campaigns.
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"Vulnerabilities in CUSG CMS Exposed Credit Unions to Attacks"According to security researchers at LMG Security, three vulnerabilities in the CU Solutions Group (CUSG) content management system (CMS) could have been exploited by hackers in attacks aimed at credit unions.
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Teaming up to improve Maryland electionsThe Empowering Secure Elections research lab has an exciting new partnership with the Anne Arundel County (Maryland) Board of Elections! We are sending a voter satisfaction survey to registered voters in the county. Our goal is to und
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"OpenAI Blocks State-Sponsored Hackers From Using ChatGPT"OpenAI has terminated accounts associated with state-sponsored threat groups from Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia exploiting ChatGPT, its Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven chatbot.
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"DarkGate Gang Using CAPTCHA to Spread Malware"According to HP Wolf Security, DarkGate cybercriminals are using legal advertising tools to hide their malicious campaigns and track victims' responses to malware links.