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  • "Hackers Target Chinese Language Speakers With FatalRat Malware"

    According to researchers at ESET, Chinese-speaking users are being targeted by the FatalRAT malware, which is spread via fake websites of widely-used apps. The FatalRat malware was first discovered in August 2021. It can record keystrokes, change a…

  • "Atlassian: Leaked Data Stolen via Third-Party App"

    A threat group known as SiegedSec recently published a collection of employee and operations data allegedly stolen from the software workforce collaboration tool company Atlassian. Atlassian, which is known for its Trello, Jira, and Confluence brands, is…

  • "Hackers Backdoor Microsoft IIS Servers With New Frebniis Malware"

    Hackers are launching a new malware named Frebniis on Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS), stealthily executing commands sent via web requests. Frebniis was found by Symantec's Threat Hunter Team, who revealed that an unidentified threat…

  • "New Mirai Botnet Variant 'V3G4' Exploiting 13 Flaws to Target Linux and IoT Devices"

    A new variant of the Mirai botnet has been discovered using multiple security flaws to spread to Linux and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Discovered during the second part of 2022, the latest variant has been named V3G4 by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42,…

  • "Cybersecurity Defenders Are Expanding Their AI Toolbox"

    Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a form of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that scientists have taken a significant step toward using to defend computer networks. DRL was effective in preventing adversaries from achieving their goals up to 95 percent of…

  • "Abertay University Project Combats Growing Threat of Romance Fraud"

    A project conducted by researchers at Abertay University aims to combat one of the most destructive and costly types of cybercrime affecting thousands of individuals. The project involves using a tool to detect scammers who are using online dating…

  • "Hackers Leverage PayPal to Send Malicious Invoices"

    Security researchers at Avanan, a Check Point company, found that threat actors have been leveraging the online payments system PayPal to send malicious invoices directly to users through the platform.  The researchers noted that this is different…

  • "Quarter of Crypto Tokens Linked to Pump-and-Dump"

    Security researchers at Chainalysis have discovered that almost a quarter (24%) of cryptocurrency tokens launched last year displayed the tell-tale signs of a pump-and-dump fraud scheme.  Pump-and-dump schemes are common in traditional finance.…

  • "Experts Warn of Surge in Multipurpose Malware"

    Security researchers at Picus Security have warned that a growing number of versatile malware variants are capable of performing multiple malicious actions across the cyber-kill chain.  Picus Security compiled its Red Report 2023 by analyzing over…

  • "ESXiArgs Ransomware Has Infected Hundreds of New Targets in Europe, Researchers Say"

    According to data collected by the security research firm Censys, the ESXiArgs ransomware has recently targeted over 500 European organizations. Researchers at Censys have been updating a dashboard that monitors the ransomware campaign's spread daily. In…

  • "AI-Based Visual Editing Service Leaks User Images and Customer Data"

    Internet users have become increasingly fascinated with Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tools such as ChatGPT and DALL-E, but few have likely considered the security consequences of contributing text or images to such programs. Cybernews researchers…

  • "ChatGPT Subs In as Security Analyst, Hallucinates Only Occasionally"

    Experiments have demonstrated that ChatGPT, a popular Large Language Model (LLM), could help defenders in triaging potential security incidents and finding security flaws in code, even though the Artificial Intelligence (AI) model was not trained for…