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"'MadMxShell' Leverages Google Ads to Deploy Malware via Windows Backdoor"A threat actor has been using a cluster of domains posing as legitimate IP scanner software sites to distribute malware through a Windows backdoor dubbed "MadMxShell." According to Zscaler ThreatLabz, the threat actor registered multipl
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"Evil XDR: Researcher Turns Palo Alto Software Into Perfect Malware"An exploit of Palo Alto Networks' Extended Detection and Response (XDR) software could have enabled attackers to manipulate it as a malicious multitool.
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"Akira Ransomware Gang Made $42 Million From 250 Attacks Since March 2023: FBI"The Akira ransomware gang has targeted over 250 organizations in the last year and continues to affect various businesses and critical infrastructure entities in North America, Europe, and Australia, according to recent warnings from the Federal
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"Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems Following Cyberattack"Telecommunications giant Frontier Communications recently informed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that certain systems were shut down following a cyberattack.
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"Alarming Decline in Cybersecurity Job Postings in the US"Security researchers at CyberSN warn that the overall number of cybersecurity job postings in the US decreased by 22% from 2022 to 2023.
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"CyLab Researchers to Present at ACM CHI 2024"CyLab Security and Privacy Institute researchers will present ten papers and participate in one special interest group at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024).
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"Cheap Ransomware for Sale on Dark Web Marketplaces Is Changing the Way Hackers Operate"Sophos X-Ops has found 19 "cheap, independently produced, and crudely constructed" junk gun ransomware variants on the dark web.
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"SoumniBot Malware Exploits Android Bugs to Evade Detection"A new Android banking malware called "SoumniBot" uses a less common obfuscation technique, exploiting flaws in the Android manifest extraction and parsing procedure.
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"Active Kubernetes RCE Attack Relies on Known OpenMetadata Vulns"According to Microsoft Threat Intelligence research, known vulnerabilities in OpenMetadata's open source metadata repository have been actively exploited since early April, allowing threat actors to launch Remote Code Execution (RCE) cyberattacks on un
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"Moldovan Charged For Operating Botnet Used to Push Ransomware"The Department of Justice (DoJ) recently charged Moldovan national Alexander Lefterov, the owner and operator of a large-scale botnet that infected thousands of computers across the United States.
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"United Nations Agency Investigating Ransomware Attack Involving Data Theft"The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced that it is investigating a cyberattack in which information was compromised.
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"UK Police Lead Disruption of £1m Phishing-as-a-Service Site LabHost"UK police infiltrated and disrupted the "LabHost" Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) operation that made cybercriminals more than £1 million ($1.3 million) from thousands of targets.