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"Upgraded Prilex Point-Of-Sale Malware Bypasses Credit Card Security"This year, security analysts have discovered three new versions of the Prilex point-of-sale (PoS) device-targeting malware, indicating that its authors and operators are back in business. Prilex began as ATM-focused malware in 2014 before shifting to PoS…
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"Researchers Uncover Covert Attack Campaign Targeting Military Contractors"A new covert attack campaign used spear-phishing emails to target multiple military and weapons contractor companies, triggering a multi-stage infection process designed to deploy an unknown payload on compromised machines. Securonix dubbed the highly…
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"Texas A&M University Opens Center for Cybersecurity Innovation"As the cybersecurity skills gap remains, universities are looking for new ways to prepare their students to succeed in the field. Students need access to computer labs designed for innovation in this area because many cybersecurity skills are best…
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"Two RIT Cybersecurity Professors Win Meta Research Awards"Yidan Hu and Ivan De Oliveira Nunes, assistant professors of computing security at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), both won Meta Research Awards for their cybersecurity research. They are working to ensure people's safety on Augmented…
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"Here's How Crooks Will Use Deepfakes to Scam Your Biz"All of the materials and tools required to create deepfake videos are widely available and for sale on the public internet and underground forums, from source code to publicly available images and account authentication bypass services. According to…
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"CISA, NSA Provide OT, ICS Defense Strategies to Critical Infrastructure"According to a joint cybersecurity advisory issued by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control System (ICS)…
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"Multi-Platform Chaos Malware Threatens to Live up to Its Name"Security researchers at Lumen's Black Lotus Labs have found that Chaos, the new multipurpose malware written in the Go programming language, is spreading across the world. The researchers stated that the malware has quadrupled in size in just two…
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"Hacker Breaches Fast Company Apple News Account, Sends Racist Messages"A hacker recently breached Fast Company's Apple News account and sent obscene push notifications to users' home screens. US business publication Fast Company confirmed the hack saying a threat actor breached the company's content management system…
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"INKY Finds New Phishing Attack Technique Spoofing Netflix"According to a report recently published by INKY Technology, a provider of an email security platform, cybercriminals have discovered another way to harvest credentials by impersonating the web pages of Netflix. INKY found malicious HTML attachments…
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"Browser-Based Heat Attacks Putting CISOs on the Hot Seat"As employee adoption of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications and other cloud-based services grows, the web browser has become a popular entry point for attackers looking to stealthily breach an endpoint before moving into the network. Highly Evasive…
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"L2 Network Security Control Bypass Flaws Impact Multiple Cisco Products"Cisco recently confirmed that tens of its enterprise routers and switches are impacted by bypass vulnerabilities in the Layer-2 (L2) network security controls. Cisco noted that an attacker can bypass the controls provided by these enterprise…
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"New Deepfake Threats Loom, Says Microsoft's Chief Science Officer"Eric Horvitz, Microsoft's chief science officer, testified before the US Senate Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, stating that organizations will face new challenges as cyberattacks become more sophisticated, including through using…