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"Prometei Botnet Evolves and Infected +10,000 Systems since November 2022"According to researchers at Cisco Talos, the Prometei botnet has infected over 10,000 devices worldwide since November 2022. The structure of the cryptocurrency mining botnet is modular, and it uses different methods to infect devices and avoid detection…
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"Zoll Medical Data Breach Impacts 1 Million Individuals"Medical technology developer Zoll Medical is notifying roughly one million individuals that their personal information might have been compromised in a recent data breach. The company develops and markets medical equipment and software for advanced…
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"TSA Issues Additional Cybersecurity Rules for the Aviation Sector"The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued a new cybersecurity amendment to the security programs of certain TSA-regulated airport and aircraft operators in the aviation industry. This amendment is part of the Department of Homeland…
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"And the Cyberattack Goes to ... Fans of Oscar-Nominated Films"The greater the popularity and critical acclaim of a pirated film, the greater the likelihood that it contains more infected files. A ReasonLabs research team analyzed data on film piracy from January 2022 until last month, focusing on some of the most…
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"Warning: AI-generated YouTube Video Tutorials Spreading Infostealer Malware"Threat actors have been spotted using Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated YouTube videos to spread Raccoon, RedLine, and other information stealer malware. Pavan Karthick M., a researcher at CloudSEK, explained that the videos lure users by posing as…
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"CASPER Attack Steals Data Using Air-Gapped Computer's Internal Speaker"Researchers at the School of Cyber Security at Korea University in Seoul have unveiled a new covert channel attack called CASPER that can leak data from air-gapped computers to a neighboring smartphone at a rate of 20bits/sec. The CASPER attack uses the…
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"Serious Vulnerability Patched in Veeam Data Backup Solution"Veeam recently announced patches for a severe vulnerability in its Backup & Replication solution that could lead to the exposure of credentials. A backup solution for virtual environments, Veeam Backup & Replication, supports virtual…
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"Researchers Take a Step Towards Turning Interactions That Normally Ruin Quantum Information into a Way of Protecting It"Researchers have discovered a method for predicting the behavior of many-body quantum systems that are coupled to their environment. The study demonstrates a method for protecting quantum information in quantum devices, which is essential for the…
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"White House Allocates $3.1bn to Cybersecurity in New Budget"The White House has recently allocated a total of $3.1bn to cybersecurity infrastructure in its latest budget report. The document shows $145m of this figure will go toward making the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) more…
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"AT&T Vendor Data Breach Exposed 9 Million Customer Accounts"AT&T customer data was exposed in January through a third-party vendor that had been hacked. The company noted that the breach affected around nine million customer accounts. The breached data included basic personal information but no…
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"Cerebral Informing 3.1 Million Individuals of Inadvertent Data Exposure"Emotional health care provider Cerebral is informing over 3.1 million individuals that their protected health information (PHI) might have been inadvertently exposed via third party tracking technologies on its platforms. Cerebral noted that it has…
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"Acronis Clarifies Hack Impact Following Data Leak"Swiss data protection firm Acronis has clarified that a single customer’s account has been compromised after a hacker leaked gigabytes of information allegedly stolen from the company. On a popular cybercrime forum, a hacker recently announced…