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"US Mortgage Lender loanDepot Confirms Ransomware Attack"Leading U.S. mortgage lender loanDepot has revealed that a cyber incident over the weekend was a ransomware attack that led to data encryption.
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"'Swatting' Becomes Latest Extortion Tactic in Ransomware Attacks"Threat actors are targeting medical institutions through their patients, using a tactic called "swatting" in order to push hospitals to pay ransom demands.
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"Escalating Cyber Threats: Bots, Fraud Farms, and Cryptojacking Surge, Urgently Requiring Attention"The motivations and methods behind cyberattacks are varied.
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"Capital Health Attack Claimed by LockBit Ransomware, Risk of Data Leak"The LockBit ransomware operation has recently claimed responsibility for a November 2023 cyberattack on the Capital Health hospital network and threatens to leak stolen data and negotiation chats by tomorrow.
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"KyberSlash Attacks Put Quantum Encryption Projects at Risk"According to researchers at Cryspen, multiple implementations of the Kyber Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM) for quantum-safe encryption are vulnerable to a set of flaws called KyberSlash that enable secret keys to be recovered.
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"Syrian Hackers Distributing Stealthy C#-Based Silver RAT to Cybercriminals"The "Anonymous Arabic" threat group released Silver RAT, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) capable of bypassing security software and silently launching hidden applications.
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"Turkish Cyberspies Targeting Netherlands"A state-supported cyberespionage group likely affiliated to Turkey has recently been observed targeting numerous public and private entities in the Netherlands for intelligence gathering, Dutch incident response provider Hunt & Hackett reports.
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"North Korean Hackers Stole $600m in Crypto in 2023"According to security researchers at blockchain intelligence firm TRM, North Korean hackers stole at least $600m in cryptocurrency in 2023.
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"Law Firm Orrick Reveals Extensive Data Breach, Over Half a Million Affected"Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, a law firm that specializes in cyberattacks, recently disclosed that they were affected by a data breach in early 2023 and that more than 600,000 individuals were impacted.
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"Energy Resilience: FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Professor Will Improve Electric Grid Cybersecurity With $2.9M Department of Energy Award"A FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researcher is working on improving electric grid cybersecurity.
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"Ontario Tech Researcher Investigating the Opportunities and Risks Associated With Drone Swarms"Khalil El-Khatib, a networking and information technology expert in the Ontario Tech University's Institute for Cybersecurity and Resilient Systems (ICRS), recently received new research funding from Canada's National Cybersecurity Consortium (NCC) to
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"USask Cybersecurity Expert Weighs in on AI Benefits and Risks"According to Dr. Natalia Stakhanova, a cybersecurity researcher and expert at the University of Saskatchewan (USask), there are two ways to look at Artificial Intelligence (AI) from a security standpoint.