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"Darktrace Denies Getting Hacked After Ransomware Group Names Company on Leak Site"Cybersecurity company Darktrace issued a statement recently after it was named on the leak website of the LockBit ransomware group. In the statement, the company noted that the cybercriminal gang was claiming that they had compromised Darktrace's…
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"Russian Hackers Linked to Widespread Attacks Targeting NATO and EU"Poland's Military Counterintelligence Service and Computer Emergency Response Team have linked APT29 state-sponsored hackers, who are part of the Russian government's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), to attacks against NATO and European Union…
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"Five Arrests in Crackdown on $98m Investment Fraud Gang"European police have recently arrested five individuals in an attempt to bust a criminal network believed to have made $98m from tens of thousands of victims through investment fraud. According to Europol, some 33 German law enforcers teamed up…
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"Zelle Users Targeted With Social Engineering Tricks"Avanan reports that cybercriminals have been using social engineering to impersonate the popular US-based digital payments network Zelle and steal money from unsuspecting victims. The phishing email is crafted to appear as authentic as possible,…
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"RTM Locker: Emerging Cybercrime Group Targeting Businesses with Ransomware"Read The Manual (RTM) Locker is a developing cybercriminal group that operates as a private Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) provider and conducts opportunistic attacks to generate illicit profit. According to a report by the cybersecurity company Trellix…
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"New Mirai Variant Employs Uncommon Tactics to Distribute Malware"RapperBot, a new variant of Mirai, is another example of malware that uses relatively uncommon or previously unknown infection vectors in an attempt to spread more widely. RapperBot first appeared as Internet of Things (IoT) malware containing parts of…
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"IARPA's Plan to Hack the Brains of Hackers"The leading research agency of the Intelligence Community is moving forward with a plan to create new cybersecurity defenses by exploiting the decision-making biases and cognitive weaknesses of would-be hackers. Reimagining Security with Cyberpsychology-…
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"Rage Against the Intelligent Machines"A multifaceted fight against Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been ignited. Several prominent organizations questioned the risks inherent in the largely unregulated manner in which emerging Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and…
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"Hacking Policy Council Launched to Support Security Research and Disclosures"Google and other companies will develop and launch new initiatives aimed at providing policy guidance to governments and legal protection to security researchers engaged in "good faith" vulnerability research and disclosure. The tech giant also announced…
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"Emotet Climbs March 2023's Most Wanted Malware List With OneNote Campaign"According to security researchers at Check Point, the Emotet malware has continued to climb the rankings of Check Point’s Most Wanted Malware List in March thanks to a new campaign relying on spam emails containing a malicious OneNote file. The…
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"SAFECOM and NCSWIC Develop Considerations for Cyber Disruptions in an Evolving 911 Environment"The US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has announced the release of the "Considerations for Cyber Disruptions in an Evolving 911 Environment" document. Nationwide, Emergency Communications Centers (…
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"20,800 Iowans impacted by National Data Breach That Exposed Medicaid Data"A cyberattack has exposed personal data for thousands of Iowans who receive Medicaid. The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services recently revealed that the breach that occurred last summer was part of an attack on a contractor's computer…