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"Hacking Group POLONIUM Uses 'Creepy' Malware Against Israel"Researchers have discovered previously unknown malware used by the cyberespionage hacking group 'POLONIUM.' The threat actors appear to target only Israeli organizations. POLONIUM employs a wide range of custom malware against engineering, IT, law,…
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"Researchers Warn of New Phishing-as-a-Service Being Used by Cyber Criminals"Caffeine is a previously unknown Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) toolkit that is being used by cybercriminals to effectively scale up their attacks and distribute malicious payloads. According to Mandiant, this platform has an intuitive interface and a low…
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"Researchers Hack Adaptive Cruise Control, Then Show How to Make It Safer"A new study from UAB computer scientists reveals that advanced driving assistance systems such as adaptive cruise control, which is now standard equipment in many cars, can be tricked into causing accidents. The work also shows how to keep the cars…
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"Update on Solana Phantom's Security NFTs Spread Malware That Steals Passwords"Hackers are airdropping Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) to Solana cryptocurrency users under the guise of security updates for the Phantom in order to steal cryptocurrency wallets and install malware that steals passwords. This attack recently began, with…
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"NCSC: Businesses Are Too Often 'Seduced' by the Attractive Lure of Phishing Tests"The UK's cybersecurity authority is warning businesses not to be enticed by the allure of administering phishing tests to employees. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which is part of GCHQ, claimed that most implementations of phishing tests…
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"Anonymous Data Doesn't Mean Private, Researchers Say"A team of researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology used Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms to extract personal information, specifically protected characteristics such as age and gender, from anonymous cell phone…
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"Darkweb Market BidenCash Gives Away 1.2 million Credit Cards For Free"A dark web carding market named "BidenCash" has recently released a massive dump of 1,221,551 credit cards to promote their marketplace, allowing anyone to download them for free to conduct financial fraud. BidenCash is a stolen cards marketplace…
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"Intel Alder Lake BIOS Code Leak May Contain Vital Secrets"The source code for the BIOS used with Intel's 12th-generation Core processors has been leaked online, possibly including details of undocumented Model-Specific Registers (MSRs) and Intel's Boot Guard security technology's private signing key. The source…
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"New Kind of Attack Called 'Downcoding' Demonstrates Flaws in Anonymizing Data"When data sets containing personal information are shared for the purposes of research or business use, researchers attempt to disguise the data by removing the final one or two digits of a zip code, for example, while retaining its utility for insight.…
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"Unpatched Remote Code Execution Flaw in Zimbra Collaboration Suite Actively Exploited"Threat actors are taking advantage of a severe Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Zimbra collaboration platform that has yet to be patched. Rapid7 researchers are warning of the exploitation of the unpatched zero-day RCE vulnerability in…
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"GAO Says Federal Agencies Could Improve Collaboration on Ransomware"Officials from government organizations told the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that federal agencies' ransomware prevention and response assistance was "generally satisfactory." According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ransomware…
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"SMU’s Deason Institute To Partner With Goldman Sachs And Prairie View A&M For Cyber Security Research"The Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security at Southern Methodist University (SMU) is collaborating with the global financial services firm Goldman Sachs, with assistance from Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), on research to detect and defend…