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"Thousands of Android Apps Leak Hard-coded Secrets, Research Shows"Thousands of Android apps contain hard-coded secrets, meaning that a malicious actor, even if they are not a highly skilled one, could gain access to Application Programming Interface (API) keys, Google Storage buckets, unprotected databases, and other…
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"Simulated Phishing to Raise Cybersecurity Awareness"Starting this week, IT Services at the University of Arkansas will send randomized spam tests to faculty and staff. If the employees click a link in a suspicious test email, they will be sent to a training page that educates them on how to…
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"WordPress 6.0.2 Patches Vulnerability That Could Impact Millions of Legacy Sites"Recently WordPress announced the release of version 6.0.2 of the content management system (CMS), with patches for three security bugs, including a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability. Identified in the WordPress Link functionality,…
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"Cuba Ransomware Group Claims Attack on Montenegro Government"The Cuba ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the recent attack on the Montenegro government, which reported that it was the target of cyberattacks linked to Russia. According to the government, the cyberattacks appear to be targeting a wide…
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"Ukraine Takes Down Cybercrime Group Hitting Crypto Fraud Victims"The National Police of Ukraine (NPU) shut down a network of call centers used by a cybercrime group focused on financial scams and targeting victims of cryptocurrency scams under the guise of assisting them in recovering their stolen funds. The…
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"Ransomware Gangs' Favorite Targets"Barracuda released its fourth-annual threat research report, which examines ransomware attack patterns from August 2021 to July 2022. The top five industries for the 106 highly publicized attacks studied by Barracuda's researchers are education,…
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"Malicious Chrome Extensions Plague 1.4M Users"Researchers have identified five different malicious Chrome extensions masquerading as Netflix viewers and more. These extensions have been found to monitor user activity and insert code into any e-commerce sites they visit, allowing cybercriminals to…
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"Hackers Hide Malware in Stunning Images Taken by James Webb Space Telescope"The deep field image taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been used as a lure by a persistent Golang-based malware campaign called "GO#WEBBFUSCATOR" to deploy malicious payloads on infected systems. According to Securonix, the…
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"CSU Researchers Funded by DARPA to Demystify Neural Networks, Improve Cybersecurity"Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are computer software systems that process information, recognize patterns, and learn similarly to what the human brain does. Such systems, including everything from weather prediction models to facial recognition…
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"Metaverse Technology Opens Up a Wider World of Privacy Concerns"The expansion of digital experiences available through immersive headsets and related technologies raises concerns about the information collected on people wearing the devices and how to protect their privacy. According to a June report by the…
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"3 Research Universities to Collaborate With Industry, Government to Develop Quantum Technologies"Quantum science and engineering have the potential to save energy, accelerate computation, bolster national security and defense, and enhance health care. Quantum science will revolutionize technologies ranging from drug design, materials, and energy…
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"NSF Grant Supports Ballot Integrity Research"Rice University, Texas A&M University, and the University of Alabama (UAB) at Birmingham will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to examine the robustness and security of election systems that read hand-marked paper ballots. The National Science…