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"ExpressVPN User Data Exposed Due to Bug"ExpressVPN recently disabled split tunneling on its Windows clients to prevent an issue where DNS requests were not properly directed to its servers.
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"How Secure Is Your Security Camera? Hackers Can Spy on Cameras Through Walls, New Research Finds"Kevin Fu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University specializing in cybersecurity, has discovered a way to eavesdrop on most modern cameras.
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"Cybercriminals Are Creating Their Own AI Chatbots to Support Hacking and Scam Users"Cybersecurity experts from the University of East Anglia and the University of Kent call for more attention to criminals creating their own Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots for hacking and scams.
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"UAlbany Partners on New U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium"The University of Albany (UAlbany) will participate in a new national research consortium aimed at supporting and demonstrating approaches to developing safe and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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"White House to Release Memory-Safe Code Guidance in Coming Weeks"According to National Cyber Director Harry Coker, the White House's main cybersecurity directorate will release a paper on memory-safe software development to encourage public and private sector programmers to adopt practices that prevent hackers from
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"Deepfake Face Swap Attacks on ID Verification Systems up 704% in 2023"Deepfake attacks that use "face swap" technology to evade remote identity verification increased by 704 percent in 2023, according to iProov's 2024 Threat Intelligence Report, "The Impact of Generative AI on Remote Identity Verification." Many deepfake
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"Exploiting a Vulnerable Minifilter Driver to Create a Process Killer"Antonio Parata, a CrowdStrike security researcher, demonstrated how to use a signed Minifilter Driver in a Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attack to terminate a specific process from the kernel.
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"New RustDoor macOS Malware Impersonates Visual Studio Update"RustDoor is a new Rust-based macOS malware distributed as a Visual Studio update. It provides backdoor access to compromised systems and uses infrastructure linked to the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group.
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"The State of the Metaverse"The metaverse raises significant concerns, including those about cybersecurity. The metaverse is a three-dimensional (3D) virtual immersive environment in which users interact as avatars.
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"Security Flaw in a Popular Smart Helmet Allowed Silent Location Tracking"Livall, a smart ski and bike helmet maker, has fixed a security flaw that enabled easy real-time location tracking of a user wearing its helmets.
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"Known Ransomware Attacks Increased 68% Last Year"According to Malwarebytes' recent State of Malware report, the rise of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) gangs such as LockBit and ALPHV was accompanied by a 68 percent increase in known ransomware attacks in 2023, reaching a new high.
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"New Coyote Trojan Targets 61 Brazilian Banks with Nim-Powered Attack"A new banking trojan called Coyote has targeted 61 banking institutions in Brazil.