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"Generative AI Making It Harder to Spot Fraudulent Emails"Cybercriminals are using generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to evade email security solutions and deceive employees. According to Mike Britton, CISO of Abnormal Security, generative AI makes detecting email attacks more difficult.
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"2023 Sees Surge in Mobile Banking Heists Targeting Global Financial Apps"According to a new report from the mobile security platform provider Zimperium, mobile banking heists increased in 2023, with researchers discovering 29 malware families that targeted 1,800 banking apps across 61 countries.
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"Telecom Organizations in Africa Targeted by Iran-Linked Hackers"According to researchers, MuddyWater, a cyber espionage group linked to Iran's intelligence service has been targeting telecommunications companies in Egypt, Sudan, and Tanzania.
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"Smishing Triad Targets UAE Residents in Identity Theft Campaign"Security researchers at Resecurity have recently observed a new fraudulent campaign orchestrated by the Smishing Triad gang and, impersonating the United Arab Emirates Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship.
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"NSA Publishes 2023 Cybersecurity Year in Review"The National Security Agency (NSA) has released its 2023 Cybersecurity Year in Review, covering its recent cybersecurity successes as well as how it is collaborating with partners to deliver on cybersecurity advances aimed at improving national securit
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"SSH Vulnerability Exploitable in Terrapin Attacks"Security researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum discovered a flaw in the SSH cryptographic network protocol that could enable an attacker to reduce the security of the SSH connection by truncating the extension negotiation message.
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"Unsung GitHub Features Anchor Novel Hacker C2 Infrastructure"Researchers have discovered a GitHub account abusing two different features of the website to host stage-two malware.
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"Double-Extortion Play Ransomware Strikes 300 Organizations Worldwide"According to a new joint cybersecurity advisory from the US and Australia, the threat actors behind the Play ransomware are estimated to have hit about 300 entities as of October 2023.
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"More Than 26,000 Vulnerabilities Discovered in 2023"According to security researchers at Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU), a total of 26,447 vulnerabilities were disclosed in 2023, surpassing the previous year by over 1500 CVEs.
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"FBI Disrupts BlackCat Ransomware Operation, Creates Decryption Tool"According to the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI successfully breached the BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware operation's servers to monitor activities and obtain decryption keys.
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"Xfinity Customer Data Compromised in Attack Exploiting CitrixBleed Vulnerability"Comcast’s Xfinity recently announced that customer information had been compromised in a cyberattack that involved exploitation of the vulnerability known as CitrixBleed.
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"A Computer Scientist Explains How QR Codes Work and What Makes Them Dangerous"There are security risks associated with QR codes, which are graphical representations of digital data that can be printed and later scanned by a smartphone or other device.