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"Security Researchers Observed 'Deliberate' Takedown of Notorious Mozi Botnet"Researchers at the cybersecurity company ESET have observed what they believe to be a dismantling of the Mozi botnet, which has infiltrated over a million Internet of Things (IoT) devices globally. -
"AI Research Team at RIT Publish Findings on Generative Harmful Content"Faculty and Ph.D. students at the Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute identified problems regarding generative hate speech in Google's PaLM2 Large Language Model (LLM), which drives Bard.
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"Monitoring Nuclear Weapons Stockpiles With Radio Waves"Information Technology (IT) security experts have developed a new method to monitor nuclear disarmament treaties. They created a mechanism that uses radio waves to remotely monitor if any changes are being made in a specific room.
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"Research Suggests That Privacy and Security Protection Fell To The Wayside During Remote Learning"A study conducted by faculty and students at the University of Chicago and the University of Maryland uncovered tensions and breakdowns in the sociotechnical infrastructure of emergency remote learning that have compromised the privacy and data o
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"Fake Malware Targets Cybercriminal Wannabes"HP Wolf Security has found fake malware designed to lure would-be cybercriminals into compromising their own devices.
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"Iranian Hackers Caught Spying on Governments and Military in Middle East"An Iranian nation-state threat actor, tracked as Scarred Manticore, primarily targets government, military, and telecommunications sectors in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Iraq, and Israel.
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"KillNet Group Touts New Feature-Rich 'DDoS-For-Hire' Service"The threat group KillNet is selling a new Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) tool that could encourage more cybercriminals to conduct DDoS attacks.
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"Hackers Exploit Recent F5 BIG-IP Flaws in Stealthy Attacks"F5 has issued a warning to BIG-IP administrators about "skilled" hackers compromising devices by exploiting two recently disclosed vulnerabilities to hide their access and stealthily execute code.
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"North Korean Hackers Targeting Crypto Experts with KANDYKORN macOS Malware"State-sponsored threat actors from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been targeting blockchain engineers of an unnamed cryptocurrency exchange platform through Discord with macOS malware named KANDYKORN.
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"BiBi-Linux Wiper Targets Israeli Companies"Attackers are using new wiper malware called BiBi-Linux in attacks against Israeli companies to destroy their data.
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"'Prolific Puma' Hacker Gives Cybercriminals Access to .us Domains"A link-shortening service provides cyberattackers and scammers with .us top-level domains, making their phishing campaigns slightly less detectable.
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"Accelerating AI Tasks While Preserving Data Security"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a search engine called SecureLoop, capable of efficiently identifying optimal designs for deep neural network accelerators that preserve data security while improving perform