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"New UMD Center to Focus on Railway Cybersecurity and Safety"US railways have undergone significant digital transformations, with distributed computer systems now handling many parts of their operations, potentially leaving them exposed to cyberattacks and other forms of sabotage. A malicious actor could…
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"Cybercriminals Bypass OpenAI's Restrictions on Malicious Use"Cybercriminals have discovered a way to bypass OpenAI's restrictions against using its natural language Artificial Intelligence (AI) model for malicious purposes, according to researchers who have spotted low-level hackers using the company's ChatGPT…
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"Research Team at Georgia State University Is Identifying How Scammers Target Victims on Dating Apps"A team of researchers at Georgia State University conducted research that reveals the strategies used by scammers to earn people's trust and render them vulnerable to cybercrime. The issue known as "romance fraud" is often underreported and understudied…
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"Privacy Skills Gap Is the Top Obstacle for Privacy Programs, Underfunded Budgets a Major Obstacle To Attracting Privacy Professionals"The Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) conducted a survey in the fourth quarter of 2022 to which about 1,890 working individuals with one of the organization's cybersecurity or privacy solutions certifications responded. The survey…
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"VMware Ransomware Evolves to Evade Data Recovery, Reinfects Servers"According to data compiled by Ransomwhere, an open-source ransomware payment tracker, a new variant of ESXiArgs ransomware has infected over 1,250 VMware systems. Since the spread began on February 3, the original strain has affected at least 3,800…
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"Valve Waited 15 Months to Patch High-Severity Flaw. A Hacker Pounced"Researchers have discovered four game modes that could exploit a vulnerability in the popular Dota 2 video game. The vulnerability remained unpatched for 15 months after a fix was released. It existed in Google's V8 open-source JavaScript engine, which…
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"Jailbreak Trick Breaks ChatGPT Content Safeguards"According to a new report by CNBC, users have already found a way to work around ChatGPT's programming controls that restricts it from creating certain content deemed too violent, illegal, and more. According to CNBC, the prompt, called DAN (Do Anything…
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"An Email Attack Can End up Costing You Over $1 million"Security researchers at Barracuda Networks have discovered that 75% of the organizations had fallen victim to at least one successful email attack in the last 12 months, with those affected facing average potential costs of more than $1 million. …
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"Refund and Invoice Scams Surge in Q4"Researchers at Avast have recently warned consumers to be on their guard after revealing an increase in scams using phishing emails and vishing fraud to steal their money. The researchers recorded an increase in refund and invoice fraud of 14%…
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"Fifth of ICS Bugs Have No Patch Available"According to security researchers at SynSaber, the number of published industrial control system (ICS) vulnerabilities has grown by almost 70% in the past three years, with over a fifth still not patched by manufacturers. The researchers analyzed…
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"Android Mobile Devices From Top Vendors in China Have Pre-installed Malware"A new study conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Trinity College Dublin discovered that high-end Android devices sold in China are shipped with spyware. Using static and dynamic code analysis techniques, the researchers…
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"Malicious Google Ads Sneak AWS Phishing Sites Into Search Results"A new phishing campaign is targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) logins. The campaign abuses Google Ads to sneak phishing sites into Google Search in order to steal login information. Sentinel Labs discovered the campaign on January 30, 2023, when its…