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"European Police Arrest 42 After Cracking Covert App"European police have recently arrested 42 suspects and seized guns, drugs, and millions in cash, after cracking another encrypted online messaging service used by criminals. Police launched raids on 79 premises in Belgium, Germany, and the…
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"Feds Say Cyberattack Caused Suicide Helpline’s Outage"A cyberattack caused a nearly daylong outage of the nation’s new 988 mental health helpline late last year. Lawmakers are now calling for the federal agency that oversees the program to prevent future attacks. A spokeswoman for the Substance Abuse and…
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"20 Million Users Impacted by Data Breach at Instant Checkmate, TruthFinder"PeopleConnect-owned background check services Instant Checkmate and TruthFinder have recently disclosed data breaches affecting a total of more than 20 million users. In individual data breach notices published on February 3, the organizations…
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"Scam Alert for Dingo Token That Charges 99% Fee"Security researchers at Check Point have warned that a popular cryptocurrency is a scam after spotting backdoor functionality designed to effectively steal users’ funds. Dingo Token is relatively small by cryptocurrency standards: its market cap of…
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"Paper: Stable Diffusion 'Memorizes' Some Images, Sparking Privacy Concerns"Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers from Google, DeepMind, UC Berkeley, Princeton, and ETH Zurich have published a paper describing an adversarial attack that can extract a small percentage of training images from latent diffusion AI image synthesis…
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"New York Attorney General Orders Stalkerware Maker to Notify Hacked Victims"Following a deal with the New York attorney general's office, a New York-based spyware maker will notify the individuals whose phones were compromised by its mobile spying software. Under the terms of the agreement, Patrick Hinchy, whose 16 companies…
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"Tallahassee Hospital Diverting Patients, Canceling Non-emergency Surgeries After Cyberattack"A cyberattack has prompted a Tallahassee hospital to move patients to other hospitals and cancel all non-emergency surgical procedures. Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, one of the largest hospitals servicing a 21-county region in north Florida and south…
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"Cloud Security Outlook 2023 Confirms the 'Continued Surge in Cloud Adoption' but Highlights Associated Security and Resilience Issues"ManageEngine has released the findings of its new study titled "Cloud Security Outlook 2023." According to the study, 72 percent of respondents are using multi-cloud applications, and 5 percent are using hybrid cloud systems. In 2023 and 2024, the…
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"IT and Security Pros Spend Over 4,000 Hours a Year on Compliance"According to a new survey from the automation platform Drata, Information Technology (IT) and security professionals spend an annual average of 4,300 hours achieving or maintaining compliance. Drata surveyed 300 IT and security professionals in fast-…
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"Vice Media Data Breach Included Financial Data"Vice Media notified users whose personal data may have been compromised as a result of a data breach involving the media organization. According to Vice's filings with Maine's Attorney General, over 1,700 individuals were affected by the incident.…
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"Passion Botnet Cyberattacks Hit Healthcare, as Actors Offer Threat as DDoS-As-A-Service"The US and other NATO-affiliated nations are the focus of another Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack vector aimed at the healthcare industry. According to a new security advisory from Radware, the Passion Group, which has ties to Killnet and…
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"GoAnywhere MFT Zero-Day Vulnerability Lets Hackers Breach Servers"Customers of the GoAnywhere MFT file transfer solution are being warned of a zero-day Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability on exposed administrator consoles. GoAnywhere is a secure web file transfer system that enables organizations to transfer…