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"Rural Texas Towns Report Cyberattacks That Caused One Water System to Overflow"A hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow in January has recently been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group. The attack was one of three on small towns in the rural Texas Panhandle.
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"Cannes Hospital Cancels Medical Procedures Following Cyberattack"Cannes Hospital Centre – Simone Veil (CHC-SV) recently shut down its systems in response to a cyberattack it fell victim to.
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"MITRE Reveals Ivanti Breach By Nation State Actor"The MITRE Corporation recently became the latest high-profile victim of an Ivanti-related breach after a nation-state actor compromised its R&D network via two chained zero-day vulnerabilities.
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"NSF Career Award Boosts LSU Researcher's Work Fighting 'Hidden' Privacy Leaks During Videoconferencing"According to Louisiana State University (LSU) researcher and professor Chen Wang, muting microphones and turning off cameras during video conferences may not provide users with the privacy they expect.
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"ASU Receives Three DEPSCoR Awards for Research Critical to National Security"The US Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) grants to three researchers in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU).
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"51% of Enterprises Experienced a Breach Despite Large Security Stacks"According to Pentera, 93 percent of enterprises that admitted to a breach experienced unplanned downtime, data exposure, or financial loss.
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"BlackTech Targets Tech, Research, and Gov Sectors with New 'Deuterbear' Tool"A threat actor called "BlackTech" has been targeting the Asia-Pacific region's technology, research, and government sectors. The attacks deliver an updated version of the modular backdoor named "Waterbear," and its enhanced successor, "
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"Hackers Are Threatening to Leak World-Check, a Huge Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist"A financially motivated criminal hacking group that calls itself "GhostR" claims to have stolen a confidential database containing millions of records companies use to screen potential customers for links to sanctions and financial crime.
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"Quishing Attacks Jump Tenfold, Attachment Payloads Halve"According to a new Egress report, quishing attacks, a type of phishing involving QR codes, have increased significantly, jumping from 0.8 percent in 2021 to 10.8 percent in 2024. The report also highlighted a decrease in attachment
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"CISA Announces Winners of the 5th Annual President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition"The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) held the final round of the fifth annual President's Cup Cybersecurity Competition and announced the winners.
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"Fake Cheat Lures Gamers Into Spreading Infostealer Malware"A new infostealer malware linked to "Redline" masquerades as a game cheat called "Cheat Lab," promising downloaders a free copy if they persuade their friends to install it.
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"SAP Applications Increasingly in Attacker Crosshairs, Report Shows"According to a new report from Onapsis and Flashpoint, malicious hackers are increasingly interested in compromising organizations' SAP applications and data. This interest is suspected to be fueled by SAP application migrations to the cloud