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"Third-Party Breaches Hit 90% of Top Global Energy Companies"According to a new SecurityScorecard report, in 2023, 90 percent of the world's top energy companies experienced data breaches caused by third parties.
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"Chinese Hackers Fail to Rebuild Botnet After FBI Takedown"The China-backed hacking group Volt Typhoon failed to revive a botnet recently shut down by the FBI. The botnet had previously been used in attacks against US critical infrastructure.
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"Mitsubishi Electric Factory Automation Flaws Expose Engineering Workstations"Mitsubishi Electric recently announced that two potentially serious vulnerabilities have been found in their factory automation products.
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"UK Leads International Efforts to Tackle 'Hackers for Hire'"An international initiative involving over 35 nations aims to combat hack-for-hire operations.
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"On-Premises JetBrains TeamCity Servers Vulnerable to Auth Bypass"JetBrains has addressed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-23917, that affects TeamCity On-Premises continuous integration and deployment servers.
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"Critical Boot Loader Vulnerability in Shim Impacts Nearly All Linux Distros"The Shim maintainers have released version 15.8 to fix six security flaws, including a critical bug that could enable Remote Code Execution (RCE) under certain conditions.
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"Ransomware Payments Hit $1bn All-Time High in 2023"According to security researchers at Chainalysis, ransomware actors collected over $1bn in extortion money from their victims in 2023, a record high.
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"CISA Announces Renewal of the Information and Communications Technology Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force"The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has announced a renewal of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) Task Force, a public-private partnership with various representatives from pu
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"Quantum Key Distribution Criticized by European Intelligence Agencies"In a recent position paper, intelligence agencies in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Sweden gave their criticism about Quantum Key Distribution (QKD).
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"Beware: Fake Facebook Job Ads Spreading 'Ov3r_Stealer' to Steal Crypto and Credentials"Threat actors have been using fake Facebook job advertisements to trick potential victims into installing a new Windows-based stealer malware called Ov3r_Stealer.
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"Toothbrushes Are a Cybersecurity Risk, Too: Millions Participate in DDoS Attacks"Cybercriminals have expanded their botnet capabilities with about 3 million malware-infected smart toothbrushes.
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"Chinese Hackers Infect Dutch Military Network With Malware"According to the Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) of the Netherlands, a Chinese cyber-espionage group breached the Dutch Ministry of Defence last year and deployed malware on compromised devices.