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"New Luna Ransomware Encrypts Windows, Linux, and ESXi Systems"Luna, a new ransomware family, can encrypt devices running various operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and ESXi systems. Researchers discovered it through a dark web ransomware forum ad. Luna ransomware appears to be designed specifically for… -
"Belgium Says Chinese APTs Targeted Interior, Defense Ministries"Belgium recently accused Chinese state-sponsored hackers of launching cyberattacks against its interior and defense ministries. Belgium, in a statement, noted that it had detected cyber intrusions from hacking groups tracked as APT27, APT30, APT31… -
"Okta Exposes Passwords in Clear Text for Possible Theft"Researchers from Authomize claim that Okta, an identity services provider, has major security issues that make it simple for an attacker to remotely access the platform, obtain plaintext passwords, pose as users of downstream applications, and edit logs… -
"Magecart Serves Up Card Skimmers on Restaurant-Ordering Systems"Researchers discovered that Magecart campaigns have been skimming payment-card credentials of unsuspecting customers using three online restaurant-ordering systems, impacting around 300 restaurants that use the services and compromising tens of thousands… -
"Magecart Serves Up Card Skimmers on Restaurant-Ordering Systems"Researchers discovered that Magecart campaigns have been skimming payment-card credentials of unsuspecting customers using three online restaurant-ordering systems, impacting around 300 restaurants that use the services and compromising tens of thousands…
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"Magecart Serves Up Card Skimmers on Restaurant-Ordering Systems"Researchers discovered that Magecart campaigns have been skimming payment-card credentials of unsuspecting customers using three online restaurant-ordering systems, impacting around 300 restaurants that use the services and compromising tens of thousands…
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"This Cloud Botnet Has Hijacked 30,000 Systems to Mine Cryptocurrencies"The 8220 cryptomining group has grown to include up to 30,000 infected hosts, up from 2,000 hosts globally in mid-2021. According to SentinelOne, this group is one of many low-skill crimeware gangs continously observed infecting cloud hosts, running a…
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"Open Source Platform Enables Research on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning"Researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) have made the largest benchmarking data set available for a Machine Learning (ML) method created with data privacy in mind. The method, known as federated learning, trains ML models on end-user devices such…
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"New Research Puts Your Online Privacy Preferences to the Test"A new study titled "Valuing Intrinsic and Instrumental Preferences for Privacy," conducted by Tesary Lin of Boston University, calls on marketers and websites to separate consumer privacy preferences into intrinsic and instrumental components when those… -
"Synchron Says It's The First to Implant a Human Brain-Computer Interface in The US"Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) have become a practical reality in the US. As Synchron says, it has become the first in the country to implant a BCI in a human patient. Doctors in New York's Mount Sinai West implanted the company's Stentrode…
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"Security Flaws in a Popular GPS Tracker Are Exposing a Million Vehicle Locations"New research reveals security flaws in a popular Chinese-made GPS vehicle tracker. The exploitation of these vulnerabilities can allow threat actors to track and remotely cut the engines of at least a million vehicles worldwide. BitSight, a cybersecurity… -
"Research Offers Solution to Encrypted Messages Being Hacked before Sending or after Receipt"According to researchers from the University of Surrey, message applications must do more to protect user data from undetected malware or over-the-shoulder eavesdropping that bypasses encryption before a message is sent. To combat this issue of close…