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"Vice Society Gang Is Using a Custom PowerShell Tool for Data Exfiltration"Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 found the Vice Society ransomware group exfiltrating data from a victim network using a custom-built Microsoft PowerShell script. Using this PowerShell tool, the threat actors are circumventing software and/or human-based… -
"UK Education Sector Suffered Most from Ransomware in 2022"Security researchers at Malwarebytes have discovered that the education sector in the UK was hit far more by ransomware than in other countries last year, thanks to targeting by the Vice Society group. The security vendor’s latest findings from…
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"Machine Learning Can Help to Flag Risky Messages on Instagram While Preserving Users' Privacy"It is important to protect social media users from harassment and bullying while also taking steps to protect their privacy. A team of researchers from four leading universities has proposed using Machine Learning (ML) technology to identify potentially…
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"Montana Becomes 1st State to Approve a Full Ban of TikTok"Montana has recently become the first state to approve a bill that would ban TikTok. On Friday, the GOP-controlled Montana House of Representatives sent the bill to Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte, who can now sign the measure into law. If signed into law…
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"Making a Smaller Target for Hackers: Technology Keeps Industrial Control Systems Safer by Limiting Online Access"OpDefender, a technology created at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is founded on the principle of minimizing the attack surface as much as possible. Operational control technology exists at all levels of…
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"Police Crack Comms to Bust Money Laundering Group"Police have recently claimed to have busted a criminal network believed to have laundered over $198m in drug trafficking profits after analyzing decrypted messages. Europol said it supported a joint investigation by the Belgian Federal Judicial…
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"CISA: Patch Bug Exploited by Chinese E-commerce App"The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently added CVE-2023-20963 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. CISA has given the government until May 4 to patch the zero-day vulnerability, which was allegedly…
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"LockBit Ransomware Is Targeting Macs for the First Time"LockBit, one of the most notorious ransomware strains, reportedly infected Apple Mac devices for the first time. MalwareHunterTeam cybersecurity researchers reported discovering "locker_Apple_M1_64," which is said to be the first LockBit ransomware…
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"Genius Hackers Help Russia's Neighbors Thwart Cyber Incursions"Russia's cyber capabilities are not to be underestimated, but NATO neighbors are more than capable of defending themselves against the Kremlin, according to the Lithuanian cyber chief. Constant cyberattacks from Russia are launched against the nations…
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"Payments Giant NCR Hit by Ransomware"US payments giant NCR recently confirmed that a recent data center outage resulted from a ransomware attack. A well-known ransomware group has taken credit for the attack. NCR first reported investigating an “issue” related to its Aloha…
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"Google Uncovers APT41's Use of Open Source GC2 Tool to Target Media and Job Sites"A Chinese nation-state group targeted an unnamed Taiwanese media organization to deliver Google Command and Control (GC2), an open-source red teaming tool, as part of a broader exploitation of Google's infrastructure for malicious purposes. Google's…
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"New Chameleon Android Malware Mimics Bank, Govt, and Crypto Apps"Since the start of the year, a new Android Trojan called Chameleon has been targeting users in Australia and Poland by imitating the CoinSpot cryptocurrency exchange, an Australian government agency, and the IKO bank. The cybersecurity company Cyble…