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"First American December Data Breach Impacts 44,000 People"First American Financial Corporation, the second-largest title insurance company in the United States, recently revealed that a December cyberattack led to a breach impacting 44,000 individuals. -
"US Sanctions Three Chinese Men for Operating 911 S5 Botnet"The Treasury Department recently announced sanctions against three Chinese nationals accused of creating and operating a botnet named 911 S5. The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated Yunhe Wang, Jingping Liu, and Yanni
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"Internet Archive Disrupted by Sustained and 'Mean' DDoS Attack"The Internet Archive has been hit with Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. The non-profit research library offers free access to millions of historical documents, preserved websites, and media content.
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"New North Korean Threat Actor Engaging in Espionage, Revenue Generation Attacks"Microsoft reports that a new North Korean threat actor called "Moonstone Sleet" (formerly "Storm-1789") is attacking education, the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), Information Technology (IT) companies, and more to conduct espionage and generate r
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"NIST Launches ARIA, a New Program to Advance Sociotechnical Testing and Evaluation for AI"The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is launching a Testing, Evaluation, Validation, and Verification (TEVV) program to improve understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities and impacts.
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"US Government Sanctions Cybercrime Gang Behind Massive 911 S5 Botnet"The US Treasury Department sanctioned three Chinese nationals and three Thailand-based companies linked to a botnet controlling a residential proxy service called "911 S5." About two years ago, researchers at the Canadian University of Sherbrooke disco
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"Researchers Warn of CatDDoS Botnet and DNSBomb DDoS Attack Techniques"Over the past three months, the "CatDDoS" malware botnet has exploited over 80 software security flaws to infiltrate vulnerable devices and bring them into a botnet for Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks.
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"Widespread Data Silos Slow down Security Response Times"Although Information Technology (IT) and security professionals share goals and challenges, according to Ivanti, 72 percent of them report that their organization siloed security and IT data, causing corporate misalignment and increased security risk.
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"ABN Amro Client Data Possibly Stolen in AddComm Ransomware Attack"Dutch bank ABN Amro recently announced that client data may have been compromised in a ransomware attack at third-party services provider AddComm.
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"TeaBot Banking Trojan Activity on the Rise, Zscaler Observes"Zscaler has observed the growing use of sophisticated "TeaBot" Android malware to infect mobile phones.
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"Check Point VPN Targeted for Initial Access in Enterprise Attacks"According to Check Point, threat actors have been targeting Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) from various cybersecurity vendors.