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"CISA Releases White Paper Highlighting R&D Needs and Strategic Actions for Enhancing the Resilience of Critical Infrastructure"The US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has announced the release of the white paper titled "Research, Development, and Innovation for Enhancing Resilience of Cyber-physical Critical Infrastructure:…
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"US Agencies and Allies Partner to Identify Russian Snake Malware Infrastructure Worldwide"In over 50 countries, the National Security Agency (NSA) and several partner agencies have identified infrastructure for the sophisticated Russian cyber espionage tool known as Snake malware. The agencies are publishing the joint Cybersecurity Advisory (…
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"Mass Event Will Let Hackers Test Limits of AI Technology"As soon as ChatGPT was released, hackers began "jailbreaking" the Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot in an attempt to circumvent its safeguards so that it presents something irrational or offensive. Its creator, OpenAI, and other major AI providers,…
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"CryptNet: Russian Ransom Gang Makes Its Debut"Cybersecurity researchers at ZeroFox have discovered a new ransomware gang on the dark web called CryptNet. They made the discovery on the dark web forum RAMP, where a threat actor advertised the new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) group. ZeroFox noted…
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"Department of Health Notification Regarding Decedent Information"The New Mexico Department of Health (DOH) recently started notifying the public, out of an abundance of caution, about an incident that could have compromised some information regarding decedent health information. On March 6, 2023, DOH discovered…
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"Evil Digital Twins and Other Risks: The Use of Twins Opens up a Host of New Security Concerns"Digital twins, which are virtual representations of actual real-world objects, are becoming increasingly popular. Providing real-time models of physical assets, people, or biological systems that can help identify problems as they occur or in advance is…
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"Ransomware Group Tries and Fails to Extort Security Vendor Dragos"A cybercrime group that managed to compromise the cloud-based resources of a cybersecurity vendor tried to extort the company by threatening family members, the company has revealed. Dragos said it was hit on May 8 after threat actors compromised…
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"Details Disclosed for Exploit Chain That Allows Hacking of Netgear Routers"Industrial and IoT cybersecurity firm Claroty recently disclosed the details of five vulnerabilities that can be chained in an exploit, potentially allowing threat actors to hack certain Netgear routers. The vulnerabilities were first presented at…
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"Bad Bots Now Account For 30% of All Internet Traffic"Security researchers at Imperva have discovered that the volume of internet traffic stemming from malicious automated software has increased by 2.5% since 2021 to over 30%, the highest figure since Imperva’s first Bad Bot Report in 2013. The…
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"Babuk Source Code Sparks 9 Different Ransomware Strains Targeting VMware ESXi Systems"Threat actors are taking advantage of the leak of Babuk, also known as Babak or Babyk, ransomware code in September 2021 to build different ransomware families that can target VMware ESXi systems. Alex Delamotte, a security researcher at SentinelOne,…
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"RapperBot DDoS Malware Adds Cryptojacking as New Revenue Stream"New samples of the RapperBot botnet malware now include cryptojacking capabilities for cryptocurrency mining on compromised Intel x64 machines. Developers added the cryptomining component separately from the botnet malware at first. At the end of January…
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"Automotive Industry Employees Unaware of Data Security Risks"According to Salesforce, 30 percent of automotive employees do not check security protocols before attempting to use a new tool, thus putting their company and customer data at risk. As companies store and use exponentially more data to power connected…