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"US Seizes $1.4 Million in Cryptocurrency From Tech Scammers"US law enforcement recently seized $1.4 million worth of Tether (USDT) tokens believed to have been fraudulently obtained through tech support scams.
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"ICS Researchers Awarded Best Technical Poster at NDSS"According to Alfred Chen, an assistant professor at UC Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS), the cyber-physical nature of Indoor Delivery Robot (IDR) systems can result in significant security and safety damages
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"Phishing Campaign Leverages AWS and GitHub to Launch RATs"In a new phishing campaign, malicious actors store malware on public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and GitHub. Then they use email to launch an attack and gain control of newly infected systems.
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"Image-Based Phishing Tactics Evolve"According to IRONSCALES and Osterman Research, 70 percent of organizations believe their current security stacks are effective against image-based and QR code phishing attacks. However, 76 percent were still compromised in the last 12 months.
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"These PyPI Python Packages Can Drain Your Crypto Wallets"Researchers have discovered seven packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository designed to steal BIP39 mnemonic phrases used to recover private keys of cryptocurrency wallets.
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"Under Increasing Federal Scrutiny, BlackCat Ransomware Gang Pulls Exit Scam on Its Way Out"The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang has committed a scam on its way out. BlackCat affiliates complained on dark web forums that they had successfully breached victims, but the ransomware gang had not paid their share, becoming unresponsive.
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"French Government Agencies Hit by Cyberattacks of 'Unprecedented Intensity'"Several French government agencies have experienced "intense" cyberattacks. The description of the attacks aligns with that of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks.
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"Google Paid $10 Million in Bug Bounty Rewards Last Year"Google recently revealed that it had awarded $10 million to 632 researchers from 68 countries in 2023 for finding and responsibly reporting security flaws in the company's products and services.
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"Researchers Jailbreak AI Chatbots With ASCII Art -- ArtPrompt Bypasses Safety Measures to Unlock Malicious Queries"A team of researchers has developed ArtPrompt, a new approach for bypassing the safety measures built into Large Language Models (LLMs).
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"Researchers Develop Tantalizing Method to Study Cyberdeterrence"An experimental multiplayer online war game named "Tantalus," after a figure from Greek mythology, provides insightful data for real-world cyberattacks.
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"EquiLend Ransomware Attack Leads to Data Breach"Fintech firm EquiLend has recently started sending notification letters to its employees to inform them of a data breach resulting from a January 2024 ransomware attack.
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"Researchers Expose Microsoft SCCM Misconfigs Usable in Cyberattacks"Security researchers at SpecterOps have developed a knowledge base repository for attack and defense techniques stemming from the improper setup of Microsoft's Configuration Manager (MCM).