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"Free Tool Unlocks Some Encrypted Data in Ransomware Attacks"Researchers at Cyberark have released a free tool on GitHub that can help victims of intermittent encryption attacks recover data from some types of partially encrypted files, without having to pay a ransom for the decryption key. Intermittent encryption…
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"Wendy’s to Test AI Chatbot at Ohio Drive-Thru"Wendy's is teaming up with Google to add artificial intelligence to its menu. Wendy's plans to launch an AI chatbot to automate its restaurants' drive-thrus. Dubbed FreshAI, the AI tech will hold limited conversations with customers, handling…
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"Twitter Celebrity Hacker Pleads Guilty in US"A British man recently pleaded guilty for his role in schemes to hack the Twitter accounts of celebrities like Barack Obama and Elon Musk and stealing $794,000 in cryptocurrency. Joseph James O’Connor, 23, entered his guilty plea in a New York…
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"Capita Says Ransomware Attack Will Cost It Up to $25 Million"UK-based business process outsourcing and professional services company Capita recently announced that it expects to incur costs ranging between roughly $19 million and $25 million due to a recent cybersecurity incident, but it has not clarified whether…
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"Spanish Police Arrest 40 in Phishing Gang Bust"Spanish police have recently arrested dozens of individuals on suspicion of their involvement in a serious organized crime gang said to have made over $767,000 from phishing victims. Among the 40 apprehended by law enforcers were two hackers and 15…
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"Ransomware Encryption Rates Reach New Heights"According to security researchers at Sophos, the share of ransomware victims whose data was encrypted by their extorters grew to 76% over the past year. In a new study, the researchers conducted interviews with 3000 cybersecurity/IT leaders carried…
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"IBM Unveils End-To-End, Quantum-Safe Tools to Secure Business, Government Data"IBM has introduced a new set of quantum-safe, end-to-end security tools and capabilities designed to protect organizations and government agencies as we enter the post-quantum computing era. Quantum-Safe technology, as announced at the company's annual…
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"New 'Greatness' Service Simplifies Microsoft 365 Phishing Attacks"The Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform called 'Greatness' has increased activity as it targets organizations using Microsoft 365 in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and South Africa. Many organizations use the Microsoft 365 cloud-based productivity…
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"Never Leak Secrets to Your GitHub Repositories Again"Push protection, a security feature designed to automatically prevent the leakage of secrets to repositories, is now free for all public repository owners on GitHub. Previously, only private repositories with a GitHub Advanced Security license had access…
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"Operation ChattyGoblin: Hackers Targeting Gambling Firms via Chat Apps"In a campaign that has been ongoing since October 2021, a China-aligned threat actor has targeted a gambling company in the Philippines. The cybersecurity company ESET is tracking the attacks against Southeast Asian gambling companies under the name…
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"Npm Packages Vulnerable to Old-School Weapon: the 'Shift' Key"Since 2017, hackers have been able to imitate legitimate Node Package Manager (npm) packages by removing the capital letters from their titles. According to Checkmarx, npm did not address this type of typosquatting for years, which could have resulted in…
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"Cybersecurity Goes Undercover to Protect Electric Grid Data"Based on one of the mysteries of human perception known as synesthesia, a researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) developed a new method to hide sensitive electric grid information from malicious actors in a cyberattack. This method…