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"Open Source Repository Attacks Soar 700% in Three Years"Security researchers at Sonatype have discovered that the volume of malicious activity targeting upstream open source code repositories has hit triple-digit growth over the past three years. The security vendor claimed in newly released data to have…
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"Hive Ransomware Claims Attack on New York Racing Association"The Hive ransomware operation claimed responsibility for an attack on the New York Racing Association (NYRA), which had previously disclosed that a cyberattack on June 30, 2022, had disrupted IT operations and website availability, as well as compromised…
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"Wintermute Loses $162 Million in DeFi Hack"Wintermute, a global cryptocurrency market maker, revealed a loss of $162.2 million in DeFi operations. According to reports, the digital asset trading firm serves over 50 cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms, including Binance, Coinbase,…
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"Video Game Publisher Admits Helpdesk Was Hijacked"US video game publisher 2K recently warned players of its games not to click on links sent out by its help desk, as they are likely to be malicious. The company which is a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, released a brief statement on Twitter…
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"Record DDoS Attack with 25.3 Billion Requests Abused HTTP/2 Multiplexing"The cybersecurity company Imperva announced that on June 27, 2022, it mitigated a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack with over 25.3 billion requests. The powerful attack, which was launched against an unnamed Chinese telecommunications company,…
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"Sandworm Hackers From Russia Distribute Malware by Posing as Ukrainian Telecoms"A threat cluster linked to the Russian nation-state actor Sandworm is attacking Ukraine with generic malware while posing as telecommunications companies. Recorded Future discovered a new UAC-0113 infrastructure imitating Datagroup and EuroTransTelecom…
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"Harvest Now, Decrypt Later Attacks Pose a Security Concern as Organizations Consider Implications of Quantum Computing"According to a new Deloitte study, 50.2 percent of professionals at organizations considering the benefits of quantum computing believe their organizations are vulnerable to 'Harvest Now, Decrypt Later' (HNDL) cybersecurity attacks. Threat actors use…
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"Google Tool for e-commerce Sites Being Abused by Hackers Stealing Card Data, Personal Info"According to a new Recorded Future report, hackers are abusing Google Tag Manager (GTM) containers to install malicious e-skimmers capable of stealing payment card data and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from shoppers on e-commerce sites.…
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"Report: US Businesses Experience 42 Cyberattacks per Year"Keeper Security has released its second annual 2022 US Cybersecurity Census Report, mapping the evolving cybersecurity landscape based on expert insights from over 500 IT decision-makers in US businesses. The findings from this year show that, while…
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"American Airlines Reveals Data Breach Incident Occurred After Employee Email Was Compromised"American Airlines faced a data breach in which attackers hacked an unknown number of staff email accounts and gained access to highly sensitive personal data. In notification letters sent to customers, the airline clarified that there is no proof that…
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"Revolut Data Breach: 50,000+ Users Affected"Revolut, the financial technology company behind the widely used banking app of the same name, has experienced a data breach, which was followed by phishing attacks designed to exploit the situation. On September 11, some Revolut customers reported…
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"Cyberattackers Make Waves in Hotel Swimming Pool Controls"After the hacktivist group GhostSec claimed to have breached an Israeli hotel pool controller, a team of researchers at Otorio decided to investigate further. The cyberattack group did not provide details about the Operational Technology (OT) breach, but…