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"Ukraine Says Russian Hacktivists Use New Somnia Ransomware"Russian hackers infected multiple Ukrainian organizations with a new ransomware called 'Somnia.' The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) confirmed the outbreak in an announcement on its portal, attributing the attacks to 'From Russia…
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"New 'Earth Longzhi' APT Targets Ukraine and Asian Countries with Custom Cobalt Strike Loaders"APT41, a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), has been targeting entities in East and Southeast Asia, as well as Ukraine, at least since 2020. Trend Micro, which named the espionage team Earth Longzhi, said the actor's long-running campaign could be…
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"Cybersecurity Researchers Show How Attackers Can See Your Online Ads Knowing Only Your Email Address"New research reveals that online adversaries can view or manipulate the online user-targeting process applied by third-party advertisers through the use of their target's email address. A four-person team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of…
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"Fed and SLG Agencies Need to be on Guard Against Mobile Attacks"According to new Lookout research, mobile threats to federal, state, and local governments are on the rise. Mobile phishing and device vulnerability risks have increased within government agencies since 2021. Data analyzed by Lookout found that nearly…
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"ICS Cybersecurity Report: Control Systems Remain Highly Targeted by Threat Actors as Organizations Forced to Rapidly Mature Programs"According to the 2022 SANS OT/ICS Cybersecurity Report, hackers continue to show a strong interest in Industrial Control Systems (ICS), but organizations are much more prepared following the high-profile incidents of 2021. However, this is not a…
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"Why Privacy and Security Are the Biggest Hurdles Facing Metaverse Adoption"The hype surrounding the metaverse is growing within the big-tech economy. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 25 percent of the global population will spend at least an hour per day in the metaverse, whether to shop, work, attend events, or socialize.…
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"Cisco Patches 33 Vulnerabilities in Enterprise Firewall Products"Cisco recently announced the release of patches for 33 high and medium-severity vulnerabilities impacting enterprise firewall products running Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), Firepower Threat Defense (FTD), and Firepower Management Center (FMC)…
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"IBM Launches Its Most Powerful Quantum Computer With 433 qubits"International Business Machines Corp (IBM) recently launched its most powerful quantum computer to date called the Osprey, a 433-qubit machine that has three times the number of qubits than its Eagle machine announced last year. The number of…
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"NSA Releases Guidance on How to Protect Against Software Memory Safety Issues"The National Security Agency (NSA) has issued guidance to help software developers and operators in preventing and mitigating software memory safety issues, which make up a large portion of exploitable vulnerabilities. The "Software Memory Safety"…
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"GitHub Launches Channel to Ease Vulnerability Disclosure Process for Open-Source Software"GitHub, the world's largest open-source software development community, has added a communication channel to its platform to make it easier for security researchers to report vulnerabilities to project maintainers. Reporting vulnerabilities has always…
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"Two Malware Variants Linked to China Infect Uyghur-language Apps, as Per Cybersecurity Research"More than a third of Uyghur-language Android apps distributed through social media or downloaded from unofficial app stores are infected with malware. Lookout Inc., a cybersecurity company, based in San Francisco, discovered two new malware variants…
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"Foxit Patches Several Code Execution Vulnerabilities in PDF Reader"Popular PDF document reader Foxit Reader has recently been updated to address multiple use-after-free security bugs that could be exploited for arbitrary code execution. This week, Cisco’s Talos security researchers published information on four…