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"Peugeot Leaks Access to User Information in South America"Stellantis' French automobile brand Peugeot exposed its customers in Peru, a South American country with a population of roughly 34 million. Although the country is not a particularly significant market for the automaker, this discovery is yet another…
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"Critical Flaw Patched in VMware Workstation and Fusion"VMware has recently addressed multiple security vulnerabilities in its Workstation and Fusion products. The vulnerabilities, identified as CVE-2023-20869, CVE-2023-20870, CVE-2023-20871, and CVE-2023-20872, have been privately reported to VMware…
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"Alloy Taurus Hackers Update PingPull Malware to Target Linux Systems"Security researchers at Palo Alto Network's Unit 42 have observed the threat actor known as Alloy Taurus deploying a new variant of the PingPull malware targeting Linux systems. The researchers believe Alloy Taurus is a Chinese advanced persistent…
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"A Developer Exploited an API Flaw to Provide Free Access to GPT-4"Unconcerned with legal repercussions, a developer is attempting to reverse engineer Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in order to provide free access to popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) models such as OpenAI's GPT-4. The developer's project…
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"UK Cyber Pros Burnt Out and Overwhelmed"According to security researchers at Expel, over half (52%) of UK IT decision-makers (ITDMs) expect security team members to leave within the year due to burnout. The researchers polled 500 ITDMs from organizations of all sizes for their study.…
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"Quad Countries Prepare For Info Sharing on Critical Infrastructure"The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) is working on a new information-sharing agreement that would help its four members improve cyber-resilience and their response to critical infrastructure (CNI) threats. The four members of the group are…
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SoS Musings #72 - Making the Move to Memory-Safe Programming LanguagesSoS Musings #72 - Making the Move to Memory-Safe Programming Languages
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Cybersecurity Snapshots #41 - BlackCat Ransomware GroupCybersecurity Snapshots #41 - BlackCat Ransomware Group
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"Making Emergency Calls More Secure"The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $1.2 million grant to a team of Michigan State University (MSU) researchers to continue enhancing the security of cellular 911 calls. Customers benefit from improved coverage and faster service as the…
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Cyber Scene #79 - Tech Driving Geopolitics; Cyber at the WheelCyber Scene #79 - Tech Driving Geopolitics; Cyber at the Wheel
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"Charming Kitten's New BellaCiao Malware Discovered in Multi-Country Attacks"Charming Kitten is an Iranian nation-state group that has targeted multiple victims in the US, Europe, the Middle East, and India with a novel malware called BellaCiao. BellaCiao, discovered by Bitdefender Labs, is a "personalized dropper" capable of…
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"Chinese Hackers Use New Linux Malware Variants for Espionage"In cyberespionage attacks, hackers are deploying new Linux malware variants, such as a new PingPull variant and a previously undocumented backdoor known as Sword2033. PingPull is a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) first identified by Unit 42 in espionage…