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"Windows SmartScreen Bug Exploited to Deliver Powerful Info-Stealer"A vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-36025, that Microsoft fixed in November 2023, is being used by threat actors to deliver Phemedrone Stealer.
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"Atlassian Warns of Critical RCE Flaw in Older Confluence Versions"Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server are vulnerable to a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw that affects all versions released before December 5, 2023, including out-of-support releases.
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"Government, Military Targeted as Widespread Exploitation of Ivanti Zero-Days Begins"Security researchers at threat intelligence and incident response firm Volexity have started seeing widespread exploitation of the recently disclosed Ivanti Connect Secure VPN appliance vulnerabilities.
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"Email Nightmare: 94% of Firms Hit by Phishing Attacks in 2023"According to security researchers at Egress, email security remained top of mind for cybersecurity professionals in 2023 as over nine in ten (94%) cyber decision-makers had to deal with a phishing attack. This is up 2% from the previous year.
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"New Material Found by AI Could Reduce Lithium Use in Batteries"Security researchers at Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have used artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing to discover a brand new substance which could reduce lithium use in batteries.
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"Over 178K SonicWall Firewalls Vulnerable to DoS, Potential RCE Attacks"Security researchers at Bishop Fox have found over 178,000 SonicWall next-generation firewalls (NGFW) with the management interface exposed online are vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS) and potential remote code execution (RCE) attacks.
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"Juniper Networks Patches Critical Remote Code Execution Flaw in Firewalls, Switches"Juniper Networks has recently published more than two dozen security advisories to inform customers about well over 100 vulnerabilities affecting its products, with a majority of the flaws impacting third-party components.
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"Cloud Server Abuse Leads to Huge Spike in Botnet Scanning"Netscout has announced that malicious actors are increasingly abusing free cloud services, which has led to a significant spike in botnet scanning activity. Netscout typically sees 10,000-20,000 IP addresses conducting internet scans every day.
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"Hacker Spins up 1 million Virtual Servers to Illegally Mine Crypto"Europol has recently announced that a 29-year-old man in Ukraine was arrested for using hacked accounts to create 1 million virtual servers used to mine $2 million in cryptocurrency.
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"LG Electronics Researchers Develop New Method For Quantum Secure Communication"In a recent study, a team of LG Electronics researchers developed a new protocol for Quantum Secure Direct Communication (QSDC), which aims to improve the security and transmission rate of quantum communication systems.
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"New Study Pinpoints the Weaknesses in AI"A team of researchers at the University of Copenhagen is developing a language for discussing weaknesses in Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, which could lead to the creation of guidelines describing how algorithms should be tested.
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"FBot Malware Emerges as Significant Threat to Cloud and Payment Services"SentinelLabs warns of FBot, a sophisticated Python-based malware that targets cloud and payment services.