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"'Prometei' Botnet Spreads Its Cryptojacker Worldwide"The 8-year-old modular botnet "Prometei" is still active, spreading a cryptojacker and web shell on machines. Prometei was discovered in 2020, but later evidence suggested it has been around since 2016.
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"New Qilin.B Ransomware Variant Emerges with Improved Encryption and Evasion Tactics"Researchers at Halcyon have found an advanced variant of the "Qilin" ransomware with more sophisticated and evasive tactics.
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"White House Issues AI National Security Memo"The White House released a National Security Memorandum (NSM) on Artificial Intelligence (AI), outlining important actions that the federal government should take to ensure the safe, secure, and trustworthy development of the technology.
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"Exploit Released for New Windows Server 'WinReg' NTLM Relay Attack"Publicly available Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploit code for a vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Registry client can be used to take over a Windows domain by downgrading the security of the authentication process.
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"AI and Deepfakes Fuel Phishing Scams, Making Detection Harder"According to Teleport, Artificial Intelligence (AI) impersonation has become the most difficult vector for cybersecurity professionals to protect companies against.
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"Researchers Reveal 'Deceptive Delight' Method to Jailbreak AI Models"Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 researchers have revealed a new adversarial technique they call "Deceptive Delight" that can jailbreak Large Language Models (LLMs) during an interactive conversation by sneaking in a malicious instruction between harmless o
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"Avast Releases Free Decryptor for Mallox Ransomware"Anti-malware vendor Avast recently published a free decryption tool to help victims to recover from the Mallox ransomware attacks. Mallox ransomware was fisrt observed in 2021, and is also known as Fargo, TargetCompany, and Tohnichi.
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"Ransomware Attacks on Healthcare Sector Are Driving Increase in Emergency Patient Care"According to a new report by Microsoft, ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector are rising and putting lives at risk.
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"70% of Leaders See Cyber Knowledge Gap in Employees"According to a new study by researchers at Fortinet, nearly 70% of business leaders believe their employees lack critical cybersecurity knowledge, a sharp increase from 56% in 2023.
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"CISA, DOJ Propose Rules for Protecting Personal Data Against Foreign Adversaries"The United States Department of Justice and the cybersecurity agency CISA have started seeking comments on a proposed rule for protecting the personal data of Americans against foreign adversaries.
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"NotLockBit Ransomware Can Target macOS Devices"Researchers at SentinelOne have observed a new macOS malware family dubbed "NotLockBit" that poses as "LockBit" ransomware. NotLockBit, which is written in the Go programming language, targets both Windows and macOS systems.
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"LLMjacking and Open-Source Tool Abuse Surge in 2024 Cloud Attacks"The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) has reported that cloud-based cyberattacks increased significantly in 2024 as threat actors used new methods to exploit cloud resources.