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"FBI: Dual Ransomware Attack Victims Now Get Hit Within 48 Hours"The FBI has issued a warning regarding a new trend of ransomware attacks in which multiple strains are launched on victims' networks to encrypt systems in less than two days. -
"Phishing, Smishing Surge Targets US Postal Service"Security researchers at DomainTools have witnessed a significant increase in cyberattacks targeting the US Postal Service (USPS), mainly through phishing and smishing campaigns. -
"Lazarus Group Impersonates Recruiter from Meta to Target Spanish Aerospace Firm"The Lazarus Group has been linked to a cyber espionage attack against an unnamed aerospace company in Spain. The threat actor posed as a recruiter for Meta and approached the company's employees. -
"NSA Releases Guidance on Acceptance Testing for Supply Chain Risk Management"The National Security Agency's (NSA) Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) titled "Procurement and Acceptance Testing Guide for Servers, Laptops, and Desktop Computers" encourages US Government departments and agencies operating National Security Syste -
"Malicious Ads Creep Into Bing Chat Responses"Users of Microsoft's Bing Chat, a GPT-4-powered search engine introduced this year, are being targeted with malicious ads. -
"Attacks on Azerbaijan Businesses Drop Malware via Fake Image Files"A spear-phishing email appearing to be a memo from the president of an Azerbaijan company hid malware behind images in order to infiltrate businesses affiliated with the company.
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"Microsoft Breach Exposed 60,000 State Department Emails"According to Microsoft, a sophisticated Chinese cyber-espionage campaign targeting Microsoft Outlook accounts gave Beijing access to tens of thousands of private US government emails.
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"NIST Publishes Final Version of 800-82r3 OT Security Guide"NIST recently published the final version of its latest guide to operational technology (OT) security.
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"ROBOT Crypto Attack on RSA Is Back as Marvin Arrives"Hubert Kario, a senior quality engineer on the QE BaseOS Security team at Red Hat, has discovered flaws in a 25-year-old method for encrypting data using RSA public-key cryptography. -
"Enhancing AI Robustness for More Secure and Reliable Systems"Reevaluating how most Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems protect against attacks helped researchers at EPFL's School of Engineering develop a new training approach to ensure Machine Learning (ML) models, particularly deep neural networks, always perf -
"New Resource for Domestic Abuse Survivors Combines AI, Cybersecurity, and Psychology"Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing a new software tool powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address the understudied area of digital security and domestic abuse. -
"'Marriages of Convenience' Between State Actors and Cybercriminals Provide Cover for Both"Intelligence services in countries such as Russia, North Korea, and China have leveraged ad hoc relationships with cybercriminal groups within their borders for some time to shield their organizations from the repercussions of their actions.