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"Cryptocurrency Hacks Shot up in 2022, Amounting to Almost $4 billion in Losses"According to security researchers at Immunefi, losses of cryptocurrency assets due to hacks rose to $3.7 billion last year, a 58 percent increase over the $2.3 billion that cybercriminals stole from investors and exchanges in 2021. The researchers…
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"Zoho Urges Admins to Patch Critical ManageEngine Bug Immediately"Business software provider Zoho is urging customers to patch a critical security flaw affecting multiple ManageEngine products. The bug, tracked as CVE-2022-47523, is an SQL injection vulnerability found in the company's Password Manager Pro secure…
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"Chinese Researchers Claim to Have Broken RSA With a Quantum Computer. Experts Aren't So Sure."Researchers in China say they have made a quantum computing breakthrough, finding out how to breach the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) public-key encryption system using a quantum computer with the amount of power that will soon be publicly available.…
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"Qualcomm, Lenovo Flag Multiple High Impact Firmware Vulnerabilities"Qualcomm has disclosed nearly two dozen security flaws in its chipsets, including the company's flagship Snapdragon processor chips, which impact products ranging from cars to powerline communications. Two flaws in automotive and one bug in powerline…
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"CircleCI Warns Customers to Rotate 'Any and All Secrets' After Hack"Following a breach of CircleCI's servers, the company has recommended customers rotate their secrets. CircleCI is a San Francisco-based DevOps company whose development solutions are popular among software developers. According to a statement made by the…
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"Slack Says Hackers Stole Private Source Code Repositories"Enterprise communication and collaboration platform Slack has recently informed customers that hackers have stolen some of its private source code repositories, but claims impact is limited. Slack disclosed the incident on December 31. Slack…
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"Burger Chain Five Guys Discloses Data Breach Impacting Job Applicants"US burger chain Five Guys has recently disclosed a data breach impacting job applicants, and the company may be facing a lawsuit over the cybersecurity incident. Five Guys started informing employees on December 29, when it also notified state…
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"Data Backup Is No Longer Just About Operational Fallback"Data backup has generally been the responsibility of Information Technology (IT) operations, whilst security teams have been in charge of dealing with threats to data posed by attacks. According to the global IT research and advisory company Info-Tech…
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"Bluebottle Hackers Used Signed Windows Driver in Attacks on Banks"A signed Windows driver was used in bank attacks in French-speaking countries, most likely by the threat actor that stole over $11 million from multiple banks. The operations and targets are consistent with the OPERA1ER hackers, who have been linked to…
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"Data of 235 Million Twitter Users Leaked Online"Data on 235 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacker forum. Experts have confirmed the legitimacy of the entries in the massive leaked archive. A threat actor exposed the data of 5.4 million Twitter accounts at the end of July 2022…
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"Rackspace: Ransomware Attack Bypassed ProxyNotShell Mitigations"Rackspace Technology has confirmed that the December 2022 ransomware attack that disrupted email services for thousands of its Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) clients stemmed from a zero-day exploit against a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)…
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"SpyNote Strikes Again: Android Spyware Targeting Financial Institutions"Since at least October 2022, a new variant of the Android malware SpyNote, also known as SpyMax, has been targeting financial institutions. ThreatFabric stated that the developer of the malware, who previously sold it to other parties, made the source…