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"Japanese Police Successful in Decrypting Data Attacked by LockBit Ransomware"Japanese police have successfully decrypted company data that had been encrypted by the LockBit ransomware. The Cyber Police Department and the Cyber Special Investigation Team, which were founded by the National Police Agency in April of this year,…
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"Fraudsters' Working Patterns Have Changed in Recent Years"According to Onfido, the current global financial cost of fraud is projected to be $5.38 trillion, or 6.4 percent of global GDP. Onfido's Identity Fraud Report, emphasizes that 80 percent of repored fraud is cyber-enabled. As criminals seek to exploit…
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"New Malvertising Campaign via Google Ads Targets Users Searching for Popular Software"Users searching for popular software are being targeted in a new malvertising campaign that uses Google Ads to deliver trojanized variants in order to deliver malware, such as Raccoon Stealer and Vidar. The activity involves websites with typosquatted…
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"Thousands of Citrix Servers Vulnerable to Patched Critical Flaws"Thousands of Citrix ADC and Gateway implementations are still vulnerable to two critical-severity security flaws that the vendor resolved in recent months. The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-27510, was patched on November 8. It is an…
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"Will the Crypto Crash Impact Cybersecurity in 2023? Maybe."The question has emerged as to how the decrease in cryptocurrency valuations will impact the cybercrime economy. Even before the most current cryptocurrency boom, cybercriminals have abused cryptocurrency to bolster their operations. The cryptocurrency…
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"Lincoln Laboratory’s Cloud Security Software Is Released Into Red Hat Enterprise Linux"Red Hat, a global open-source software leader, has integrated the Keylime package into its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 9.1) operating system. MIT Lincoln Laboratory developed Keylime, which is a security software architecture. With the inclusion of…
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"International Experts Put Argonne's Cybersecurity Defense Software Through the Wringer at NATO's Cyber Coalition 2022"Six teams of cyber defenders were assigned a special mission at Cyber Coalition 2022, the flagship cyberdefense event hosted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Estonia in November. Their mission was to set up computer-based systems and…
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"Phishing Campaign Leverages Facebook Posts to Bypass Email Security"Researchers have found a new phishing campaign that uses Facebook posts to circumvent email security checks, acquire user information, and seize control of accounts. The Meta-Phish campaign involves sending false copyright infringement letters to…
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"Yury Dvorkin Provides Analysis on Study that States Consumer Security Savvy is Way Behind IoT Threat Landscape"The rapid proliferation of consumer and industrial Internet-connected devices has made the cyber threat landscape expand faster than the ability of humans to keep up. Consumers' ability to detect threats and protect against them is lacking. Risks to…
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"Why Out-of-Scope Assets are Prime Targets for Attackers"Out-of-scope assets are those neglected by security teams. These are normally regarded as non-critical, but the potential of chained attacks caused by problems such as subdomain takeovers makes it more important than ever to monitor and safeguard the…
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"BitKeep Confirms Cyberattack, Loses Over $9 Million in Digital Currencies"Decentralized multi-chain crypto wallet BitKeep recently confirmed a cyberattack that allowed threat actors to distribute fraudulent versions of its Android app with the goal of stealing users' digital currencies. BitKeeps CEO Kevin Como stated…
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"Lake Charles Memorial Health Has Possible Cybersecurity Incident"Some Lake Charles healthcare system patients may have had their information involved in a cybersecurity incident. The Lake Charles Memorial Health System recently mailed letters to some of its patients whose information may have been involved in a…