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"Prudential Financial Faces Cybersecurity Breach"Prudential Financial has recently disclosed a cybersecurity breach. The breach on February 5, 2024, involved unauthorized access to certain company systems.
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"New Report Finds Sensitive Information at Risk in 55% of Generative AI Inputs"A new report from Menlo Security reveals that 55 percent of all generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) inputs include sensitive and Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
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"New Wi-Fi Authentication Vulnerabilities Discovered"Researchers have discovered two new vulnerabilities in open-source Wi-Fi software that enable attackers to trick victims into connecting to malicious clones of trusted networks, intercept their traffic, and join networks without a password.
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"US Offers up to $15 Million For Tips on ALPHV Ransomware Gang"The U.S. State Department is offering rewards of up to $10 million for information that could lead to the identification or location of ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware gang leaders.
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"DDoS Attacks Are Getting Bigger and Costlier - Here's Why"According to a new report from the communications infrastructure provider Zayo Group, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming longer and more expensive.
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"iOS Users Beware: GoldPickaxe Trojan Steals Your Facial Data"Group-IB researchers have discovered a new iOS Trojan dubbed GoldPickaxe.iOS that steals facial recognition data and identity documents, as well as intercepts SMS.
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"Crypto-Money Laundering Records 30% Annual Decline"According to security researchers at Chainalysis, just over $22bn worth of cryptocurrency was laundered in 2023, a 30% drop from the previous year, with nefarious actors switching techniques to stay hidden from investigators.
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"Microsoft Warns of Exploited Exchange Server Zero-Day"Microsoft recently warned that a newly addressed vulnerability in Exchange Server has been actively exploited in attacks.
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"TUM and Google Strengthen Cooperation: Seven New Research Projects on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence"With funding from Google, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is launching seven new research projects to address critical questions at the intersection of cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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"4 Ways Hackers use Social Engineering to Bypass MFA"Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has been the recommended way to strengthen password access for users. But hackers are finding ways around MFA as well using social engineering. Here are a couple of popular methods used.
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"Hackers Used New Windows Defender Zero-Day to Drop DarkMe Malware"Microsoft has patched a Windows Defender SmartScreen zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild by the financially motivated threat group, tracked as Water Hydra and DarkCasino, to deploy the DarkMe Remote Access Trojan (RAT).
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"Catching The Man-in-the-Middle"Dr. Santosh Ganji, a computer engineering doctoral graduate, and Dr. P.R. Kumar, a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at Texas A&M University, are working on improving wireless network security.