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"11,000 Sites Have Been Infected With Malware That's Good at Avoiding Detection"According to researchers from the security firm Sucuri, nearly 11,000 websites have been infected with a backdoor capable of redirecting visitors to websites that generate fake views of Google Adsense advertisements. All of the infected websites…
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"Unique Iran-Based Threats Target Defense and Healthcare"Early in November 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordinating Center released a security brief detailing how Tehran-backed actors have attacked healthcare, defense, and other sectors. One incident…
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"Chinese Hackers Infiltrate South American Diplomatic Networks"The Chinese state-sponsored threat actor DEV-0147 has recently been spotted targeting diplomatic entities in South America with the ShadowPad remote access Trojan (RAT), also known as PoisonPlug. Microsoft stated that the threat actor's new…
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"Dakota State Partners With NSA, Puts $90M into Cyber Research"Through investment and a new partnership with the National Security Agency (NSA), Dakota State University (DSU) seeks to solidify its position as a cybersecurity research and training hub for the Upper Midwest. The university has committed $90 million to…
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"Artificial Intelligence Offers Swindlers a New Tool for Romance Scams"This Valentine's Day, scammers could use Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT, to craft love letters aimed at luring people into their malicious schemes. Romance scams refer to the practice of using fake online identities to gain victims' trust…
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"Hackers Breach Pepsi Bottling Ventures' Network"Pepsi Bottling Ventures (PBV) has recently disclosed a breach of its network that resulted in the theft of employees' sensitive personal and financial information. According to the company, they learned about the breach on January 10. Based on their…
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"Real-World Analysis Finds the Severity of Many CVEs Is Overrated"JFrog's latest report examines the most common vulnerabilities in 2022 and provides an in-depth analysis of the open-source security flaws that have the most impact on DevOps and DevSecOps teams. The report reveals that the severity of six of the top 10…
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"AlPHV (BlackCat) Ransomware Gang Claims Attack on Irish University"The ALPHV ransomware group, also known as BlackCat, has listed more than 6GB of data allegedly stolen from Ireland's Munster Technological University (MTU). The directory published on ALPHV's website claims to contain employee records and payroll…
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"Apple Patches Actively Exploited WebKit Zero-Day Vulnerability"Apple recently announced the release of updates for macOS, iOS, and Safari, and they all include a WebKit patch for a new zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-23529. The zero-day, described as a type confusion issue, can be exploited for…
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"Mobile Game With 10M+ Downloads Spills Source Code, Endangers User Data"Escalators, a popular mobile game available on Google Play Store and Apple's App Store, had its source code exposed on several hacker forums. The threat actor published a nearly 600 MB dataset of stolen data. The exposure of developers' intellectual…
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"Spanish Police Bust €5m Phishing Gang"Spain’s Policia Nacional has teamed up with the US Secret Service recently to dismantle a cybercrime gang that stole millions of dollars from US citizens and companies. Nine suspected members of the group have been arrested, eight in Madrid and one…
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"Cloudflare Detects and Mitigates Largest-Ever DDoS Attack on Record"Over the weekend of February 11-12, the Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of "hyper-volumetric" Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, including the largest HTTP DDoS attack on record. Most of the…