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  • "Rackspace Hosted Exchange Still Offline Over Security Issue"
    Thousands of Rackspace customers worldwide are still experiencing Microsoft Exchange Server outages, which the managed services company attributes to a security incident. Rackspace says it will shut down its hosted Exchange service indefinitely while it…
  • "Cyber Safety Review Board Turns Its Sights on Lapsus$ Extortion Group in Latest Review"
    According to officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), a federal board tasked with studying major hacks and their consequences, will focus its next review on the Lapsus$ criminal extortion group. The…
  • "French Hospital Halts Operations After Cyberattack"
    According to local reports, a hospital in the Parisian suburb of Versailles was forced offline over the weekend, leading to the cancellation of all operations and the transfer of some patients.  The André-Mignot hospital in Chesnay-Rocquencourt,…
  • "Microsoft: Russia Increasingly Timing Cyberattacks With Missile Strikes in Ukraine"
    According to Microsoft, Russia is increasingly combining cyberattacks against Ukraine with conventional weaponry, such as missiles, in a multi-pronged offensive approach that could extend beyond the conflict's borders. Microsoft found that 55 percent of…
  • "Chinese-Linked Hackers Stole Millions in COVID-19 Relief Benefits: Secret Service"
    Secret Service officials recently announced that hackers from a cybercriminal group linked to the Chinese government stole at least $20 million from the U.S. in COVID-19 relief benefits, the first known instance of foreign, state-sponsored actors tied to…
  • "The Largest Mobile Malware Marketplace Identified by Resecurity in the Dark Web"
    Resecurity, a cybersecurity firm that protects major Fortune 500 companies, has discovered a new underground dark web marketplace geared toward mobile malware developers and operators. The marketplace is known as "In The Box," and it has been available…
  • "How Companies Time Data Leak Disclosures"
    Millions of people's personal data, such as passwords, credit card information, or health information, fall into the hands of unauthorized individuals due to hacking or data processing errors by companies every year. From financial losses to identity…
  • "SOC Turns to Homegrown Machine Learning to Catch Cyber-Intruders"
    The information security team at a French bank discovered that an internally developed Machine Learning (ML) model trained on log data could detect three new types of data exfiltration undetectable by rules-based security appliances. The team extracted…
  • "BlackProxies Proxy Service Increasingly Popular Among Hackers"
    A new residential proxy market is gaining popularity among hackers, cybercriminals, phishers, scalpers, and scammers, with access to a million claimed proxy IP addresses being sold globally. DomainTools analysts who have been watching the emergence of…
  • "North Korean Hackers Spread AppleJeus Malware Disguised as Cryptocurrency Apps"
    Recent discoveries from Volexity reveal that the Lazarus Group threat actor has been seen using fake cryptocurrency apps as a lure to distribute a previously undocumented variant of the AppleJeus malware. According to researchers, this activity is…
  • "Cybersecurity Risks of Automotive OTA"
    Vehicle Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) will contact vehicle owners remotely about Operating System (OS) updates that add new features and/or fixes, as well as software bugs and vulnerabilities, similar to how smartphones do. All of this must be…
  • "AI Tools Could Boost Social Media Users' Privacy"
    According to researchers at the University of Edinburgh, by fighting Artificial Intelligence (AI) with AI, digital assistants could help prevent users from unknowingly revealing their views on social, political, and religious issues. Their findings imply…