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"Charges Filed in DDoS-For-Hire Attacks, Including Baltimore Schools Incident"A Los Angeles man accused of running a "booter" service that facilitated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks has been charged in federal court.
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"Cyber Threats Cast Shadow Over 2024 Elections"Twenty-seven percent of countries holding national elections in 2024 face the highest cyber threat levels, with multiple priority adversary groups and many state-backed groups linked to priority adversary countries.
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"Zeus, IcedID Malware Gangs Leader Pleads Guilty, Faces 40 Years in Prison"Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, one of the heads of the notorious JabberZeus cybercrime gang, has recently pleaded guilty to charges related to his leadership roles in the Zeus and IcedID malware groups.
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"FBI Dismantles Ubiquiti Router Botnet Controlled by Russian Cyberspies"The US government recently neutralized another small office/home office (SOHO) router botnet used by Russian cyberspies in malware campaigns.
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"Vulnerabilities in CUSG CMS Exposed Credit Unions to Attacks"According to security researchers at LMG Security, three vulnerabilities in the CU Solutions Group (CUSG) content management system (CMS) could have been exploited by hackers in attacks aimed at credit unions.
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Teaming up to improve Maryland electionsThe Empowering Secure Elections research lab has an exciting new partnership with the Anne Arundel County (Maryland) Board of Elections! We are sending a voter satisfaction survey to registered voters in the county. Our goal is to und
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"OpenAI Blocks State-Sponsored Hackers From Using ChatGPT"OpenAI has terminated accounts associated with state-sponsored threat groups from Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia exploiting ChatGPT, its Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven chatbot.
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"DarkGate Gang Using CAPTCHA to Spread Malware"According to HP Wolf Security, DarkGate cybercriminals are using legal advertising tools to hide their malicious campaigns and track victims' responses to malware links.
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"Ubuntu 'Command-Not-Found' Tool Could Trick Users Into Installing Rogue Packages"Researchers at Aqua have discovered that threat actors can use the well-known utility called command-not-found to recommend their own rogue packages and compromise systems running the Ubuntu operating system.
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"Researchers Pair Medical Devices With Blockchain to Defend Against Cyberattacks"A team of researchers from Emporia State University and the University of Allahabad developed a novel blockchain system for medical device monitoring dubbed HNMBlock.
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"Russian APT Turla Wields Novel Backdoor Malware Against Polish NGOs"Turla, a Russia-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group, is now targeting Polish Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in a cyber espionage campaign involving a newly developed backdoor with modular capabilities.
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"Pennsylvania Courts Say it Didn't Pay Ransom in cyberattack, And Attackers Never Sent a Demand"Pennsylvania's state courts agency recently announced that it never received a ransom demand as part of a cyberattack that briefly shut down some of its online services earlier this month.