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"Hackers Are Threatening to Leak World-Check, a Huge Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist"A financially motivated criminal hacking group that calls itself "GhostR" claims to have stolen a confidential database containing millions of records companies use to screen potential customers for links to sanctions and financial crime.
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"Quishing Attacks Jump Tenfold, Attachment Payloads Halve"According to a new Egress report, quishing attacks, a type of phishing involving QR codes, have increased significantly, jumping from 0.8 percent in 2021 to 10.8 percent in 2024. The report also highlighted a decrease in attachment
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"CISA Announces Winners of the 5th Annual President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition"The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) held the final round of the fifth annual President's Cup Cybersecurity Competition and announced the winners.
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"Fake Cheat Lures Gamers Into Spreading Infostealer Malware"A new infostealer malware linked to "Redline" masquerades as a game cheat called "Cheat Lab," promising downloaders a free copy if they persuade their friends to install it.
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"SAP Applications Increasingly in Attacker Crosshairs, Report Shows"According to a new report from Onapsis and Flashpoint, malicious hackers are increasingly interested in compromising organizations' SAP applications and data. This interest is suspected to be fueled by SAP application migrations to the cloud
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"'MadMxShell' Leverages Google Ads to Deploy Malware via Windows Backdoor"A threat actor has been using a cluster of domains posing as legitimate IP scanner software sites to distribute malware through a Windows backdoor dubbed "MadMxShell." According to Zscaler ThreatLabz, the threat actor registered multipl
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"Evil XDR: Researcher Turns Palo Alto Software Into Perfect Malware"An exploit of Palo Alto Networks' Extended Detection and Response (XDR) software could have enabled attackers to manipulate it as a malicious multitool.
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"Akira Ransomware Gang Made $42 Million From 250 Attacks Since March 2023: FBI"The Akira ransomware gang has targeted over 250 organizations in the last year and continues to affect various businesses and critical infrastructure entities in North America, Europe, and Australia, according to recent warnings from the Federal
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"Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems Following Cyberattack"Telecommunications giant Frontier Communications recently informed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that certain systems were shut down following a cyberattack.
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"Alarming Decline in Cybersecurity Job Postings in the US"Security researchers at CyberSN warn that the overall number of cybersecurity job postings in the US decreased by 22% from 2022 to 2023.
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"CyLab Researchers to Present at ACM CHI 2024"CyLab Security and Privacy Institute researchers will present ten papers and participate in one special interest group at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024).
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"Cheap Ransomware for Sale on Dark Web Marketplaces Is Changing the Way Hackers Operate"Sophos X-Ops has found 19 "cheap, independently produced, and crudely constructed" junk gun ransomware variants on the dark web.