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"Most Cloud Moves Found Rushed as Adopters Underrate Associated Risks"According to a new study on cloud-native security, many cloud adopters do not understand the security risks of moving legacy applications to the cloud, leaving them vulnerable to various cloud-based attacks.
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"US Sanctions Russian Accused of Laundering Ryuk Ransomware Funds"The US government has sanctioned a Russian national for allegedly laundering millions of dollars in victim ransom payments on behalf of people associated with the Ryuk ransomware group.
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"Exploited 'Looney Tunables' Linux Privileged Escalation Bug Linked To Kinsing Threat Actor"Aqua Nautilus researchers reported the first instance of an exploit attack on the "Looney Tunables" Linux privileged escalation vulnerability.
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"Socks5Systemz Proxy Service Infects 10,000 Systems Worldwide"Socks5Systemz, a proxy botnet, has infected about 10,000 systems through the PrivateLoader and Amadey malware loaders. Infected computers become traffic-forwarding proxies for malicious, illegal, or anonymous traffic.
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"SecuriDropper: New Android Dropper-as-a-Service Bypasses Google's Defenses"SecuriDropper is a new Dropper-as-a-Service (DaaS) for Android capable of bypassing Google's new security restrictions and delivering malware.
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"Data Brokers Are Selling US Service Members' Secrets, Researchers Find"According to a new report from researchers at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, data brokers are selling large amounts of highly sensitive data on American military service members.
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"Okta Breach Post Mortem Reveals Weaknesses Exploited by Attackers"The recent Okta Support system breach occurred because of the compromise of a service account with access to view and update customer support cases.
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"UVA Engineering Researcher Has Plan to Defeat the Next Big Cyberattack"Ashish Venkat, an assistant professor of computer science and cybersecurity expert at the University of Virginia (UVA), has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a hardware and software system that enables
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"Researcher Claims to Crack RSA-2048 With Quantum Computer"A scientist claims to have created a low-cost system for using quantum computing to crack RSA, the world's most commonly used public key algorithm. However, multiple cryptographers and security experts have expressed skepticism regarding the claim.
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"UK NCSC Issues New Guidance on Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration"The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has updated its guidance to help in the migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC).
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"Microsoft Launches New Initiative To Augment Security"Microsoft has launched the Secure Future Initiative to improve the overall security of its products and users.
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"Apple Warns Armenians of State-Sponsored Hacking Attempts"In recent weeks, Apple has alerted people in Armenia about their phones being targeted by state-sponsored hackers, with several cybersecurity experts pointing at the Pegasus spyware.