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"U.S. Government Sanctions Iranian Officials Over Pennsylvania Water Facility Hack"The U.S. Treasury Department recently announced sanctions against a half dozen Iranian government officials for their role in targeting devices at a Pennsylvania water utility in November 2023.
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"DDoS Attack Power Skyrockets to 1.6 Tbps"According to Gcore, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack trends for the second half of 2023 reveal alarming increases in scale and sophistication. The maximum attack power increased from 800 Gbps to 1.6 Tbps.
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"Russian APT28 Hackers Targeting High-Value Orgs with NTLM Relay Attacks"From April 2022 to November 2023, the Russian state-sponsored hacking group APT28 conducted NT LAN Manager (NTLM) v2 hash relay attacks using various methods, focusing on high-value targets worldwide.
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"Payment Fraud is Hitting Organizations Harder Than Ever Before"According to security researchers at Trustpair, 96% of US companies were targeted with at least one fraud attempt in the past year. In the past year, many US companies (83%) saw an increase in cyber fraud attempts on their organization.
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"Lurie Children's Hospital Took Systems Offline After Cyberattack"Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago was recently forced to take IT systems offline after a cyberattack, disrupting normal operations and delaying medical care in some instances.
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"Cloudflare Hacked Using Auth Tokens Stolen in Okta Attack"Cloudflare has revealed that a suspected nation-state actor breached its internal Atlassian server. They gained access to its Confluence wiki, Jira bug database, and Bitbucket source code management system.
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"Google Play Used to Spread 'Patchwork' APT's Espionage Apps"Patchwork, an Indian Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known for its targeted spear phishing cyberattacks on Pakistanis, has been using Google Play to distribute six different Android espionage apps masquerading as legitimate messaging and news se
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"Jailbreaking ChatGPT: Researchers Swerved GPT-4's Safety Guardrails and Made the Chatbot Detail How to Make Explosives in Scots Gaelic"Researchers have discovered a cross-lingual flaw in OpenAI's GPT-4 Large Language Model (LLM) that enables malicious users to jailbreak the model and bypass its safety measures by using prompts translated into lesser-spoken languages.
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"Romance Scam Victims Surge in 2023"According to researchers at Lloyds Bank, romance scam victims surged by more than a fifth (22%) in 2023 compared to 2022. The average amount lost per incident was $8847 last year, which is lower than in 2022 when the average loss was $10,505.
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"LockBit Reigns Supreme in Soaring Ransomware Landscape"According to security researchers at ReliaQuest, a hyper-active LockBit group led to a surge in ransomware campaigns in the last quarter of 2023.
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"Engineers Develop Hack to Make Automotive Radar Hallucinate"Duke University engineers have demonstrated a system called "MadRadar" that can deceive automotive radar sensors.