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"New Cybersecurity Center to Protect Grids Integrated With Renewables, Microgrids"Manimaran Govindarasu of Iowa State University emphasized that bringing renewable energy to the power grid raises Internet of Things (IoT) issues because everything is connected. Wind farm controllers and solar inverters are Internet-connected.
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"56% of Cyber Insurance Claims Originate in the Email Inbox"Coalition reports that 56 percent of 2023 claims were for Funds Transfer Fraud (FTF) or Business Email Compromise (BEC), emphasizing the importance of email security in cyber risk management.
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"Major Security Flaws Expose Keystrokes of Over 1 Billion Chinese Keyboard App Users"Cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps' security vulnerabilities could expose users' keystrokes to malicious actors.
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"New Brokewell Malware Takes Over Android Devices, Steals Data"ThreatFabric researchers have discovered "Brokewell," an Android banking Trojan capable of capturing every event on the compromised device, including touches, information displayed, text input, and applications launched.
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"DragonForce Ransomware Group Uses LockBit's Leaked Builder""DragonForce," a new ransomware strain, uses a leaked LockBit builder. The cybercriminal group used a ransomware binary based on a leaked LockBit Black builder, according to Cyble.
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"Palo Alto Networks Shares Remediation Advice for Hacked Firewalls"Palo Alto Networks recently shared remediation instructions for organizations whose firewalls have been hacked through the exploitation of the vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-3400.
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"WP Automatic WordPress Plugin Hit by Millions of SQL Injection Attacks"According to security researchers at PatchStack, hackers have started to target a critical severity vulnerability in the WP Automatic plugin for WordPress to create user accounts with administrative privileges and to plant backdoors for long-term
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"US Takes Down Illegal Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Samourai Wallet"The US government has recently taken down Samourai Wallet, a cryptocurrency mixing service that executed over $2bn in unlawful transactions and laundered over $100m in criminal proceeds.
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"Maximum Severity Flowmon Bug Has a Public Exploit, Patch Now"Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploit code has been released for a severe security vulnerability in Progress Flowmon, a tool used to monitor network performance and support visibility.
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"Study: GPT-4 Agent Can Exploit Unpatched Vulnerabilities"Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign discovered that feeding public security advisories to a GPT-4 Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent allows it to exploit unpatched "real-world" vulnerabilities even without precise technical
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"Researchers Develop Malicious AI 'Worm' Targeting Generative AI Systems"A team of researchers from Cornell Tech, the Israel Institute of Technology, and Intuit developed a novel type of malware dubbed the "Morris II" worm, which uses popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) services to spread itself, infect systems, and