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"300,000 Impacted by Data Breach at Car Rental Firm Avis"Avis Car Rental recently started notifying close to 300,000 individuals that their personal information was stolen in an August 2024 data breach.
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"Two Indicted in US for Running Dark Web Marketplaces Offering Stolen Information"The US recently indicted a Kazakhstani national and a Russian national for operating several dark web sites facilitating the trading of personal, payment card, and banking information.
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"High School Student Looks to Biology to Explore New Cybersecurity Pathways at ORNL"Elton Aba, a junior at Bearden High School in Knoxville and intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), worked with researchers to explore how biology can inform cybersecurity.
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"UCI Team Collaborates on $15M Grant to Secure Cyber-Physical Systems"A team of security researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), Arizona State University (ASU), and Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) received a three-year $15 million grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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"NSA, FBI, CISA, and Allies Issue Advisory about Russian Military Cyber Actors"The National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and international allies have published a new Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) titled "Russian Military Cyber Actors T
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"White House Launches Cybersecurity Hiring Sprint to Help Fill 500,000 Job Openings"To fill over half a million job openings in cyber, technology and AI, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director put out a new program to fill the shortfalls.
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"3 Men Plead Guilty to Running Service That Bypasses MFA"Three men pleaded guilty in a British court to running an online criminal service called "OTPAgency," advertised to evade Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) defenses for banks such as HSBC, Lloyds, and Monzo.
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"DHS Seeks Maritime Port Infrastructure Information from US Port Community"The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has made a Request for Information (RFI) from commercial port operators in order to advance the Directorate's Maritime Port Resiliency and Security Research Testb
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"Spyware Vendors' Nebulous Ecosystem Helps Them Evade Sanctions"A new report by the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative and researchers at American University highlights that spyware vendors can evade sanctions partly because of a complex network of interrelated entities and different jurisdictions
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"Chinese 'Tropic Trooper' APT Targets Mideast Governments""Tropic Trooper," a China-linked Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group, is conducting an espionage campaign targeting government entities in the Middle East.
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"New Backdoor Linked to Earth Lusca Threat Group"Researchers have discovered a new Go language-based backdoor called "KTLVdoor" that targets Windows and Linux systems and is linked to the Chinese-speaking threat actor named "Earth Lusca." Earth Lusca has been active since at least April 2019, targeti
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"SpyAgent Android Malware Steals Your Crypto Recovery Phrases From Images""SpyAgent," a new Android malware, steals cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from screenshots on a mobile device using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology.