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"Research Shows IT and Construction Sectors Hardest Hit By Ransomware"New research by Ontinue’s Advanced Threat Operations (ATO) team has shed light on the profound impact of ransomware attacks on the IT and construction sectors, revealing that these industries bore the brunt of nearly half of all incidents in 2023. -
"Researchers Uncover New 'Conversation Overflow' Tactics"Threat researchers at SlashNext have discovered a new cyberattack involving the use of cloaked emails to trick Machine Learning (ML) systems, leading to the infiltration of enterprise networks.
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"New Attack Shows Risks of Browsers Giving Websites Access to GPU"A team of researchers from Graz University of Technology in Austria and the University of Rennes in France demonstrated a new Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) attack that affects several popular browsers and graphics cards.
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"Nations Direct Mortgage Data Breach Impacts 83,000 Individuals"Nations Direct Mortgage recently started informing more than 83,000 individuals that their personal information was compromised in a December 2023 data breach.
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"Earth Krahang Campaign Compromised Government Servers in 23 Countries""Earth Krahang," a previously unknown Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group linked to China, compromised 70 organizations in 23 countries as part of a cyber espionage campaign. Most of the targeted organizations are government entities.
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"New AcidPour Data Wiper Targets Linux X86 Network Devices""AcidPour," a new destructive malware with data-wiping capabilities, has been discovered in the wild. It targets Linux x86 Internet of Things (IoT) and networking devices.
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"Misconfigured Firebase Instances Expose 125 Million User Records"Security researchers are warning that hundreds of websites misconfigured Google Firebase, leaking more than 125 million user records, including plaintext passwords.
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"A Method Has Been Developed to Protect and Manage Personal Data on the Internet"A research team at the University of Rovira i Virgili (URV) has developed an innovative environment based on blockchain technology that enables users to keep track of who has their information and what it is used for by means of a smart contract.
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"Georgia Tech Wins NSA's Codebreaker Challenge for Third Consecutive Year"For the third year in a row, the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) won the Codebreaker Challenge (CBC) sponsored by the National Security Agency (NSA).
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"Hackers Using Sneaky HTML Smuggling to Deliver Malware via Fake Google Sites"Researchers have discovered a new malware campaign involving the use of fake Google Sites pages and HTML smuggling to distribute "AZORult," a commercial malware designed to facilitate information theft.
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"Hackers Drop RisePro Infostealers Through GitHub Repositories"G Data CyberDefense discovered multiple GitHub repositories posing as cracked software codes and attempting to drop the RisePro infostealer on victim systems.
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"Moldovan Operator of Credential Marketplace Sentenced to US Prison"A Moldovan national has recently been sentenced to 42 months in prison in the US for operating an illicit marketplace on which hundreds of thousands of compromised credentials were offered for sale.