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"Pig Butchering Scams Are Evolving Fast"Pig butchering scams have already resulted in the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars. Although attackers, primarily crime groups in China, have written scripts and playbooks for carrying out the attacks, new discoveries from researchers at the…
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"Cybersecurity Experts Warn Against Valentine's Day Romance Scams"Several US government agencies and non-profits have recently warned individuals against romance scams connected with Valentine's Day. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued two separate statements over the last week to warn citizens…
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"Information Overload Is a Key Barrier to Effective Threat Intelligence, Says Mandiant"Nearly half of organizations identify applying threat intelligence throughout cybersecurity operations as one of the top difficulties they face today. Although most business leaders (96 percent) are satisfied with the quality of threat information their…
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"Indian Social Media App Slick Exposed Childrens' User Data"The Indian social media app Slick exposed an internal database containing users' personal information, including information belonging to school children. Since December 11, a database including the complete names, mobile phone numbers, birth dates, and…
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"Training Algorithms To Make Fair Decisions Using Private Data"Researchers at USC Viterbi have created a data-securing algorithm that enhances fairness. Shen Yan, a newly graduated Ph.D. student at USC Viterbi's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and co-author of "FairFed: Enabling Group Fairness in Federated…
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"Millions of Online Shoppers Could Be at Risk From Hardcoded Shopify Tokens"Millions of Android e-commerce app users are at risk of having their sensitive data obtained by criminals. According to a recent analysis by BeVigil of CloudSEK, researchers discovered 21 e-commerce apps with 22 hardcoded Shopify Application Programming…
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"Pro-Russia Hacker Group Killnet Targets NATO Websites With DDoS Attacks"Killnet, a pro-Russia hacking group, launched a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack against NATO websites, including the NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ) website. The incident was confirmed by NATO, while the hacker group revealed its…
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"Integreon CyberHawk-AI Identifies Patterns of Frequently Compromised Information"Integreon has recently unveiled the development of CyberHawk-AI, an advanced automated technology that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the process of extracting and analyzing sensitive data following cyber breaches. The company…
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"Researchers Uncover 700+ Malicious Open Source Packages"Security researchers at Sonatype have discovered another sizeable haul of malicious packages on the npm and PyPI open source registries, which could cause issues if unwittingly downloaded by developers. The researchers found 691 malicious npm…
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"City of Oakland Hit by Ransomware Attack"The City of Oakland, California, recently announced that it was forced to take some systems offline after falling victim to a ransomware attack. The cyberattack started last Wednesday night and led to network outages due to systems being…
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"Play Ransomware Lists A10 Networks on Its Leak Site"According to BetterCyber, the Play ransomware group placed the San Jose, California-based networking hardware manufacturer A10 Networks on its leak site after accessing the company's Information Technology (IT) infrastructure. BetterCyber revealed that…
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"Reddit Hack Shows Limits of MFA, Strengths of Security Training"The recent Reddit hack demonstrates that attackers are continuing to find new ways to circumvent multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions. Reddit notified its users on January 9 that a threat actor had successfully tricked an employee into clicking on…