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"Global Police Track Human Traffickers in Online Crackdown"According to Europol, police investigators from across the globe joined forces recently in a digital operation to identify human trafficking suspects and victims.
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"Stealthy 'Perfctl' Malware Infects Thousands of Linux Servers"Aqua Security researchers are warning of a new malware family named "perfctl" that targets Linux systems. It establishes persistent access and hijacks resources to conduct cryptocurrency mining.
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"Qualcomm Patches High-Severity Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks"Qualcomm has released security patches to address a zero-day vulnerability in the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) service, which affects dozens of chipsets.
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"Single HTTP Request Can Exploit 6M WordPress Sites"The popular "LiteSpeed Cache" WordPress plug-in, installed over 6 million times, is impacted by a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaw that allows attackers to escalate privileges and install malicious code.
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"New Gorilla Botnet Launches Over 300,000 DDoS Attacks Across 100 Countries"Researchers at NSFOCUS discovered a new botnet malware family named "Gorilla," also known as "GorillaBot," which is based on leaked "Mirai" source code.
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"Advanced Threat Group GoldenJackal Exploits Air-Gapped Systems"The Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group "GoldenJackal" launched a new set of attacks on government organizations' air-gapped systems.
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"MITRE Announces AI Incident-Sharing Project"MITRE has announced a new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-incident-sharing project that allows organizations to share intelligence regarding real-world AI-related incidents.
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"American Water Shuts Down Online Services After Cyberattack"Due to a cyberattack, American Water, the largest publicly traded US water and wastewater utility company, had to shut down some systems. The company stated that the attack forced it to shut down MyWater, its online customer portal, and pause billing.
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"'LLM Hijacking' of Cloud Infrastructure Uncovered by Researchers"Permiso researchers reported that attackers conducted Large Language Model (LLM) hijacking of cloud infrastructure for generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to run rogue chatbot services.
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"US NRC Publishes Purdue Nuclear Project Report, Led by Stylianos Chatzidakis, on Advancing Nuclear Cybersecurity, as an Official NRC Technical Letter Report"Assistant Professor and Associate PUR-1 Director Stylianos Chatzidakis and a team of researchers from Purdue University's School of Nuclear Engineering conducted a project titled "Characterizing Nuclear Cybersecurity States Using Artificial I
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"DHS: Cybersecurity Is a Top Priority and a Collective Effort"The Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), the research and development arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), launches Cybersecurity Awareness Month by highlighting its research, development, testing, and evaluation efforts and partn
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"Highline Public Schools Confirms Ransomware Behind Shutdown"Recently K-12 school district Highline Public Schools confirmed that a ransomware attack forced it to shut down all schools in early September.