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"Critical Vulnerability in Google's Titan M Chip Earns Researchers $75,000"Security researchers at Quarkslab discovered a critical vulnerability in Google's Titan M chip earlier this year. Introduced in 2018, Titan M is a system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed to deliver increased security protections to Pixel devices, including…
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"Healthcare Provider Issues Warning After Tracking Pixels Leak Patient Data"US healthcare provider Novant Health has recently notified patients that their protected health information may have been leaked through a tracking tool linked to Facebook. The company did not specify how many patients were affected by the pixel…
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"Windows Vulnerability Could Crack DC Server Credentials Open"Security researchers at Akamai have discovered a vulnerability in the remote procedure calls (RPC) for the Windows Server service, which could allow an attacker to gain control over the domain controller (DC) in a specific network configuration and…
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"UK Water Supplier Hit with Clop Ransomware Attack"A cyberattack disrupted a UK water supplier's corporate IT systems, but the company claims that its water supply was unaffected. Meanwhile, the alleged attacker, the Clop ransomware group, claimed the attack was on another, larger water utility, which…
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"DigitalOcean Customers Affected by Mailchimp 'Security Incident'"A recent attack on Mailchimp cryptocurrency-related users has affected users of the cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean. On August 8, DigitalOcean discovered that its Mailchimp account had been compromised as part of what it believes is a larger…
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"PLAY Ransomware Attack Targets Córdoba-Based Judiciary in Argentina"Argentina's Córdoba Judiciary has shut down its online portal and IT infrastructure following a ransomware attack allegedly carried out by the new PLAY ransomware operation. The downtime necessitates the filing of formal documents on paper.…
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"Microsoft Disrupts Russian Cyber-Espionage Group Seaborgium"Microsoft recently claimed to have disrupted a prolific Russian state-backed threat group known for conducting long-running cyber-espionage campaigns against mainly NATO countries. On August 15, Microsoft said it had disabled accounts used by the "…
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"Hybrid Vishing Attacks Soar 625% in Q2"Security researchers at Agari have found that detections of multi-stage phishing attacks known as “hybrid vishing” grew by over 600% from Q1 to Q2 2022, as fraudsters sought new ways to circumvent traditional security controls. The researchers…
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"Nearly 1,900 Signal Messenger Accounts Potentially Compromised in Twilio Hack"The popular end-to-end encrypted messaging service Signal revealed on that the cyberattack on Twilio earlier this month may have exposed the phone numbers of approximately 1,900 users. An attacker could have attempted to re-register their number to…
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"Most Q2 Attacks Targeted Old Microsoft Vulnerabilities"Security researchers have revealed that attacks targeting a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft's MSHTML browser engine, which was patched last September, increased dramatically during the second quarter of this year. Last quarter,…
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"Ensuring Privacy Protections for People Whose Genomic Information Is Stored among a Global Collection of Personal Data"Erman Ayday, an assistant professor of computer and data sciences at Case Western Reserve University, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant. The new five-year, $500,000 grant will…
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"Business Email Compromise (BEC) Market Worth $2.8 Billion By 2027"According to a new report from MarketsandMarkets, the Business Email Compromise (BEC) Market size is expected to grow from an estimated value of $1.1 billion in 2022 to $2.8 billion by 2027. Increased incidents of BEC scams, spear-phishing attacks,…