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  • "ViperSoftX InfoStealer Adopts Sophisticated Techniques to Avoid Detection"
    Many consumers and businesses in Australia, Japan, the US, and India have been infected with the evasive information-stealing malware ViperSoftX. ViperSoftX was first discovered in 2020, and in November 2022, the cybersecurity company Avast described a…
  • "Android Minecraft Clones With 35M Downloads Infect Users With Adware"
    A collection of 38 Minecraft clones on Google Play infected devices with the Android adware HiddenAds in order to secretly load advertisements in the background to generate revenue for the operators. Numerous game publishers have attempted to replicate…
  • "Phishing-Resistant MFA Shapes the Future of Authentication Forms"
    According to Yubico, organizations have continued to rely on the least secure forms of authentication, such as traditional usernames and passwords and one-time passwords (OTPs), over the past two years, based on a survey of over 500 Information…
  • "Malware-Free Cyberattacks Are on the Rise; Here's How to Detect Them"
    According to George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, and Michael Sentonas, president of the company, 71 percent of enterprise cyberattacks in 2022 were conducted without malware. At this year's RSA Conference, Kurtz and Sentonas walked the audience through a…
  • Pub Crawl #73
    ​Pub Crawl summarizes, by hard problems, sets of publications that have been peer reviewed and presented at SoS conferences or referenced in current work. The topics are chosen for their usefulness for current researchers.
  • "Johns Hopkins APL's Out-of-Band Communications Technology Receives Boost From Department of Homeland Security"
    Out-of-Band over Existing Communication (OBEC) is a novel communications technology developed at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to provide secure access to networks experiencing disruptions or cyberattacks. APL is one of…
  • "CESER Supports DOE's $38 Million Funding Opportunity to Secure the Grid of the Future"
    The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced a $38 million funding opportunity for National Laboratories in support of critical research and development priorities regarding developing an electricity grid that provides secure, resilient, flexible…
  • "Thermal Cameras and Machine Learning Combine to Snoop Out Passwords"
    A team of researchers at the University of Glasgow published a paper describing their method, ThermoSecure, which discovers passwords and PINs. ThermoSecure involves using a combination of thermal imaging technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to…
  • "KillNet: We Are Now a Private Military Corporation"
    KillNet, the pro-Russian hacker group notorious for launching Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, will offer its services to private and state sponsors, according to Killmilk, the group's leader. "KillNet's altruism has come to an end," the…
  • "(ISC)2 Urges Countries to Strengthen Collaboration on Cybersecurity Regulation"
    According to (ISC)², as cybersecurity policies and regulations evolve rapidly worldwide, greater collaboration is necessary to ensure more robust and resilient frameworks to support shared learning and best practices.  The international…
  • "New ‘Atomic macOS Stealer’ Malware Offered for $1,000 Per Month"
    Security researchers at Cyble have revealed that a new piece of macOS malware named Atomic macOS Stealer, or AMOS, appears to provide a wide range of data theft capabilities, targeting passwords, files, and other types of information.  The…
  • "Google Goes After CryptBot Distributors"
    Google has recently revealed details of a new legal campaign to pursue the operators of prolific information-stealing malware, which has so far infected an estimated 670,000 computers.  Google launched a civil case against several of CryptBot’s…