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"Major Backdoor in Millions of RFID Cards Allows Instant Cloning"The French security company Quarkslab found a major backdoor in millions of contactless cards made by Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group, a leading Chinese chip manufacturer.
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"CISA Warns of Jenkins RCE Bug Exploited in Ransomware Attacks"The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical Jenkins vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The exploitation of this flaw enables Remote Code Execution (RCE).
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"Iranian Group TA453 Launches Phishing Attacks with BlackSmith"The Iranian-linked threat actor "TA453," also known as "Charming Kitten," has been using a PowerShell-based malware toolkit named "BlackSmith" in a sophisticated phishing attack.
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"US Intelligence Officials Say Iran is to Blame for Hacks Targeting Trump, Biden-Harris Campaigns"US intelligence officials are confident that Iran was behind hacks against the Trump and Biden-Harris presidential campaigns. Tehran is believed to be using the hacks to influence American politics and the election.
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"Ransomware Resilience Drives Down Cyber Insurance Claims"According to a new report by the UK backup solutions provider Databarracks, more organizations than ever before have subscribed to cyber insurance, but the number of claims is declining.
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"Critical Flaw in Donation Plugin Exposed 100,000 WordPress Sites to Takeover"According to the WordPress security company Defiant, the GiveWP WordPress plugin contains a critical vulnerability that enables Remote Code Execution (RCE) and arbitrary file deletion on over 100,000 websites.
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"Ransomware Victims Paid $460 Million in First Half of 2024"According to security researchers at Chainalysis, ransomware payments and stolen cryptocurrency have increased in the first half of 2024.
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"Cybercriminals Exploit Popular Software Searches to Spread FakeBat Malware"The Mandiant Managed Defense team has discovered an increase in malware infections caused by malvertising campaigns that distribute a loader named "FakeBat," also known as "EugenLoader" and "PaykLoader." The researchers consider these attacks "op
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"100,000 Impacted by Jewish Home Lifecare Data Breach"New York City-based nonprofit healthcare organization Jewish Home Lifecare has recently revealed that a data breach disclosed earlier this year impacted more than 100,000 individuals.
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"New Tool Xeon Sender Enables Large-Scale SMS Spam Attacks""Xeon Sender," a cloud-based tool, helps attackers launch large-scale SMS spam and phishing campaigns using legitimate Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers.
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"Windows Zero-Day Attack Linked to North Korea's Lazarus APT"Researchers at Gen Threat Labs have linked the exploitation of one of the zero-days recently patched by Microsoft to North Korea's "Lazarus" Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group.
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"Oregon Zoo Ticketing Service Hack Impacts 118,000"The Oregon Zoo recently notified roughly 118,000 individuals that their names and payment card information were stolen from its online ticketing service.