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"Akira Ransomware: Lightning-Fast Data Exfiltration in 2-ish Hours"According to the BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence Team, "Akira" ransomware actors can now exfiltrate data from victims in just over two hours, a significant change in the average time it takes a cybercriminal to get to the stage where they c
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"Critical Exim Mail Server Vulnerability Exposes Millions to Malicious Attachments"The Exim mail transfer agent has a critical security flaw that could allow threat actors to send malicious attachments to target users' inboxes. Exim is a free mail transfer agent used in hosts running Unix or Unix-like operating systems.
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"Hacker 'Tank' Gets Prison Sentence for Connections to Zeus and IcedID Malware"A Nebraska federal judge has sentenced a Ukrainian national named Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (known as "Tank" in the hacker community) to prison and ordered him to pay millions in restitution for his involvement in two malware schemes.
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"WP Time Capsule Plugin Update Urged After Critical Security Flaw"Security researchers at Patchstack have recently found a new vulnerability in the Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule plugin, affecting versions 1.22.20 and below.
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"Purdue University Researchers Win ASEE Best Paper Award for Research Integrating Systems Thinking in Threat Modeling"Researchers from Purdue University won the American Society for Engineering Education's (ASEE) Best Paper award for their work titled "Introducing Systems Thinking as a Framework for Teaching and Assessing Threat Modeling Competency."
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"Data of Millions of mSpy Customers Leaked Online"According to security researchers at Have I Been Pwned, over 310 gigabytes of data from spyware maker mSpy, including 2.4 million unique emails, was leaked online in June.
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"AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records"US telecom giant AT&T, which disclosed Friday that hackers had stolen the call records for tens of millions of its customers, allegedly paid a member of the hacking team more than $300,000 to delete the data.
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"Pharmacy Giant Rite Aid Hit By Ransomware"Rite Aid has recently fallen victim to ransomware actors after revealing a “limited” cybersecurity incident that occurred last month. RansomHub has claimed to be behind the incident.
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"Year-Old Veeam Vulnerability Exploited in Fresh Ransomware Attacks"The "Akira" and "EstateRansomware" cybercrime groups have been exploiting a year-old Veeam Backup and Replication vulnerability to steal data. The exploited security flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-27532 with a CVSS score of 7.5, was patched in March 2023.
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"NATO Set to Build New Cyber Defense Center"NATO members have agreed to construct a new cyber defense facility to strengthen the military alliance and better combat digital threats.
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"Indiana County Files Disaster Declaration Following Ransomware Attack"A County in Indiana has recently filed a disaster declaration following a ransomware attack on local government networks, which has prevented the administration of critical services.
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"AT&T Data Breach: ‘Nearly All’ Wireless Customers Exposed in Massive Hack"AT&T recently announced that almost all its wireless subscribers were exposed in a massive hack that occurred between April 14 and April 25, 2024, where a hacker exfiltrated files containing “records of customer call and text interactions” between