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  • "Hack-for-Hire Group Targets Travel and Financial Entities with New Janicab Malware Variant"
    As part of a broader campaign aimed at legal and financial investment institutions in the Middle East and Europe, a hack-for-hire group called Evilnum has targeted travel agencies. The attacks, which occurred in 2020 and 2021 and most likely began in…
  • "UCalgary Research Raises Questions About Internet Security"
    Research by Dr. Joel Reardon, a University of Calgary Internet security and privacy expert, and his colleague, Dr. Serge Egelman, at the University of California Berkeley, has led to the web browser firm Mozilla removing an offshore company as a trusted…
  • "FAU Receives NSF Grant for Secure Communications Over 5G Networks"
    To deter and defeat agile adversaries, people and assets deployed by the US Department of Defense (DOD) in ground, sea, air, and space must maintain operational wireless network connectivity. Researchers from Florida Atlantic University's (FAU) College…
  • "Testing Environments Help S&T and CISA Secure Transportation Infrastructure"
    The Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is working with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to develop and test new technologies and tools to combat both online and physical threats. According to the S&T program…
  • "Truebot Malware Activity Increases With Possible Evil Corp Connections"
    Security researchers at Cisco Talos have discovered that threat group Silence has been infecting an increasing number of devices using Truebot malware.  The researchers suggest that there is a connection between Silence and the infamous hacking…
  • "Hive Ransomware Group Leaks Data From European Retailer"
    The Hive Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) group claims to have published customer data obtained during an attack on French sports retailer Intersport in November. The notorious RaaS group leaked some Intersport data to its dark web leak site and threatened…
  • "CommonSpirit Health Says Patient Data Was Stolen During Ransomware Attack"
    CommonSpirit Health, based in Chicago, has confirmed that an October ransomware attack exposed the personal information of over 620,000 patients. On October 5, CommonSpirit Health, which operates over 700 care sites and 142 hospitals across 21 states,…
  • "DHS Secretary Says US Faces a New Kind of Warfare"
    Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas recently stated that national security and homeland security are now more interconnected than ever before, largely driven by the fact that U.S. adversaries can execute attacks “with a keystroke.”  …
  • "New Facial Recognition Technology Scans Your Ear"
    The need for new authentication methods that do not require a person's full face to be visible has emerged in the post-COVID world of face coverings and amplified hygiene awareness. According to new research from the University of Georgia, people may…
  • "New App Store Code of Practice Aims to Strengthen Ecosystem Cyber Security"
    The UK government has announced plans for a code of practice to strengthen app security across the app market. The new voluntary code aims to better protect users from malicious apps available on app stores such as Google Play and Apple's App Store. The…
  • "Will the 2.5M Records Breach Impact Student Loan Relief?"
    According to a recent Maine Attorney General data breach notification, more than 2.5 million student loan accounts were compromised in the summer of 2022. The breach targeted Nelnet Servicing, a servicing system and web portal provider for the Oklahoma…
  • "'Zombinder' Service Allows Cybercriminals to Easily Add Malware to Legitimate Apps"
    A newly discovered dark web service allows cybercriminals to easily add malware to legitimate applications. ThreatFabric researchers detailed "Zombinder," which was discovered while investigating several cases of threat actors employing Ermac, a type of…