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"Apple Blocked 1.7 Million Applications From App Store in 2022"Apple recently announced that it blocked 1.7 million applications from being published in the App Store in 2022. The rejected apps did not meet the required privacy, security, and content standards. The App Store has more than 650 million…
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"Threat Group UNC3944 Abusing Azure Serial Console for Total VM Takeover"Mandiant has observed a financially-motivated cyber actor abusing Microsoft Azure Serial Console on Virtual Machines (VMs) in order to install third-party remote management tools in compromised environments. The activity was attributed to a threat group…
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"FBI Warns Organizations of the New BianLian Ransomware Tactics"A joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) issued by US and Australia government agencies and published by the US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns organizations of the most recent tactics, techniques…
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"TP-Link Routers Implanted With Malicious Firmware in State-Sponsored Attacks"According to Check Point researchers, a Chinese state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group implanted malicious firmware into TP-Link routers as part of attack campaigns targeting European foreign affairs entities. The malicious firmware was…
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"Unpatched Wemo Smart Plug Bug Opens Countless Networks to Cyberattacks"The Wemo Mini Smart Plug V2, which enables users to remotely control anything connected to it via a mobile app, contains a security flaw that cyberattackers can exploit to trigger a variety of undesirable outcomes. These include the ability to turn…
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"Herman's Study Furthering Cybersecurity Curriculum Assessment Earns Best Paper Award"Geoffrey Herman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, whose most recent work came through a multi-institutional research project that resulted in a Best Paper Award from the 2023 Technical…
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"Illinois Tech's CARNATIONS Receives $10M Federal Grant as New Tier 1 Transportation Center to Bolster Cybersecurity in Navigation Systems"The US Department of Transportation has designated the Center for Assured and Resilient Navigation in Advanced Transportation Systems (CARNATIONS) at the Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) as a Tier 1 University Transportation Center (UTC…
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"Infiltration of Qilin Reveals Customizable Nature of RaaS Marketplace"The Russia-aligned Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) group Qilin offers its affiliates sophisticated, user-friendly tools to trap their victims, as well as a significant portion of the proceeds they steal. Qilin, also known as Agenda ransomware, was first…
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"Is the New .zip Top-Level Domain a Cyber Security Risk?"According to security experts, the new '.zip' top-level domain (TLD) could drive an increase in the spread of malware and undermine legitimate sources. TLDs are the letters that follow the final period in a URL, such as '.com.' At the beginning of May,…
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"Lacroix Shuts Three Factories For a Week After Cyberattack"International electronics manufacturer Lacroix has recently intercepted a targeted cyberattack on its activity sites in France (Beaupréau), Germany (Willich), and Tunisia (Zriba). To assess the damages caused by the attack, the company said it…
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"Millions of Deleted Files Recovered in Hard Drives Purchased Online"Secure Data Recovery shared the results of a data recovery project aimed at determining how many files could be recovered from hard drives purchased online. The company purchased 100 hard drives at random and used reasonable means to attempt data…
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"Bipartisan Bill Aims to Shut Rural Hospital Cyber Skill Gaps"New bipartisan legislation introduced in the US Senate seeks to address the cybersecurity skills shortage in rural hospitals, which hackers and ransomware operators increasingly target. The Rural Hospital Cybersecurity Enhancement Act would require the…