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"FBI Flawed Data Handling Raises Security Concerns"A recent audit conducted by the Department of Justice's (DoJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) discovered that the FBI is exposing sensitive and classified data because of "significant weaknesses" in its inventory management and disposal of electr
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"Protecting Connected, Self-Driving Vehicles From Hackers"A study led by the University of Michigan found that emerging self-driving vehicle networks that collaborate and communicate with one another or with infrastructure to make decisions are vulnerable to data fabrication attacks.
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"Hackers Use Rare Stealth Techniques to Down Asian Military, Gov't Orgs"An ongoing campaign infects high-level organizations in Southeat Asia using two stealth techniques. The first method called "GrimResource," lets attackers run arbitrary code in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
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"Google Warns of Exploited Chrome Vulnerability"Less than a week after releasing Chrome 128 to the stable channel, Google warns that another bug resolved with the update is being exploited in the wild.
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"Patelco Credit Union Says Breach Impacts 726k After Ransomware Gang Auctions Data"California-based Patelco Credit Union has recently started informing customers and employees about a data breach after a ransomware group managed to steal information from databases containing personal information from its systems. Patelco is a me
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"Seattle-Tacoma Airport IT Systems Down Due to a Cyberattack"The Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has confirmed that a cyberattack is likely behind the ongoing IT systems outage that disrupted reservation check-in systems and delayed flights over the weekend.
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"Newly Discovered Group Offers CAPTCHA-Solving Services to Cybercriminals"A long-running group has allegedly been helping cybercriminals penetrate Information Technology (IT) systems with CAPTCHA-solving services.
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"NSA Releases Guide to Combat Living Off the Land Attacks"To combat Living Off the Land (LOTL) techniques used by Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors, the National Security Agency (NSA), along with international partners, has released a best practice guide for event logging.
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"Stealthy 'Sedexp' Linux Malware Evaded Detection for Two Years"Since 2022, a stealthy Linux malware called "sedexp" has evaded detection using a persistence technique not yet included in the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
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"Iranian Hackers Targeted WhatsApp Accounts of Staffers in Biden, Trump Administrations, Meta Says"Meta Platforms has announced that the same Iranian hacking group believed to have recently targeted both the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns tried to compromise the WhatsApp accounts of staffers in the administrations of President Joe
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"American Radio Relay League Paid $1 Million to Ransomware Gang"The national association for amateur radio American Radio Relay League (ARRL) recently revealed that it paid out a $1 million ransom after a disruptive May 2024 ransomware attack.