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"Maritime Cyberattack Database Launched by Dutch University"The NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands recently launched a database tracking cyberattacks and other cyber incidents impacting the maritime sector. The Maritime Cyber Attack Database, or MCAD, currently tracks more than… -
"The Promise of Watermarking AI Content"A group of major technology companies recently made an announcement about watermarking Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated content. However, cybersecurity researchers already suggest this new approach has flaws. Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection,…
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"Pacific Premier Says Vendor Hit by MOVEit Data Breach"Pacific Premier Bancorp recently announced that a cybersecurity incident at a third-party vendor has led to a data leak of its clients, becoming the latest victim of the MOVEit hack. The company noted that the client data compromised contained…
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"1st Source Says 450,000 Records Affected in Client Data Breach"Recently, commercial and consumer bank 1st Source Corp announced that it was affected by a security breach that involved a popular file transfer tool, MOVEit. The data breach has impacted about 450,000 records. The company stated that a third…
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"Hacker Claims to Have Stolen Sensitive Medical Records from Egypt's Ministry of Health"Security researchers at SOCRadar recently found that an "established" threat actor claimed to be in possession of two million data records stolen from the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population. The allegation was made on the hacker forum…
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"Casbaneiro Banking Malware Goes Under the Radar with UAC Bypass Technique"The financially motivated threat actors responsible for the Casbaneiro banking malware family have been observed applying a User Account Control (UAC) bypass technique to gain full administrative privileges on a machine. This indicates that the threat…
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"Lazarus Hackers Hijack Microsoft IIS Servers to Spread Malware"The North Korean state-sponsored Lazarus hacking group is taking over Windows Internet Information Service (IIS) web servers to distribute malware. IIS is Microsoft's web server solution used to host websites or application services. ASEC's security…
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"RaaS Proliferation: 14 New Ransomware Groups Target Organizations Worldwide"The GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team (GRIT) tracked a total of 1,177 publicly posted ransomware victims claimed by 41 different threat groups during the second quarter of 2023. The report by GRIT reveals a 38 percent increase in the number of…
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"KillNet's Kremlin Connection Unclear as the Cybercrime Collective Grows"While the exact relationship between the Russian threat group KillNet and the Kremlin remains unclear, the group's high-profile and increasingly effective cyberattacks continue to align with Russian state interests. Its public relations campaign is…
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"Using Game Theory to Advance the Quest for Autonomous Cyber Threat Hunting"Ensuring information system security requires preventing system compromises and finding adversaries already present in the network before they can launch an attack from inside. Cyber threat hunting has been deemed critical for identifying threats by…
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"Bitcoin Could Be in Danger as Quantum Computing Advances"IBM, Google, and other companies are competing to build the world's fastest quantum computer, a device that could significantly change cryptography as we know it. For their safety and security, communications, banks, and cryptocurrencies rely on robust…
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"AMD 'Zenbleed' Bug Allows Data Theft From Zen 2 Ryzen 3000, EPYC CPUs: Patches Coming"Tavis Ormandy, a Google Information Security researcher, has posted information about a new vulnerability he discovered independently in AMD's Zen 2 processors. The 'Zenbleed' vulnerability affects the entire Zen 2 product stack, including AMD's EPYC…