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"Over a Quarter of UK Manufacturers Experienced Substantial Financial Loss From Cyber Attacks in Last 12 Months"Almost half of Britain's manufacturers (42 percent) have fallen victim to cybercrime over the last 12 months, according to a new survey report titled "Cyber Security: UK manufacturing," published by Make UK. 26 percent reported a considerable financial…
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"HSE Cyberattack Costs Ireland $83m So Far"The cost of the cyberattack that hit the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) last year has officially reached $83.75m. The cyberattack, believed to have been conducted by Russia-based state actors, was reportedly caused by a malicious Microsoft…
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"PERSPECTIVE: Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Cybersecurity in the Transportation Sector"The number of weekly ransomware attacks against the US transportation sector increased by 186 percent between June 2020 and June 2021. Other types of cyberattacks are increasing at a similar rate. For example, pro-Russian hackers targeted public-facing…
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"PLAY Ransomware Group Claims Responsibility for Antwerp Attack as Second Belgian City Confirms New Incident"The PLAY ransomware group has claimed responsibility for a recent ransomware attack on Antwerp, Belgium, just as the city of Diest has confirmed that a cyberattack has targeted it. On December 19, the PLAY group threatened to start leaking Antwerp's…
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"Ransomware Gang Hacks Belgian Police Unit While Targeting Municipality, Leaks Investigation Reports"The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang exposed sensitive data from a Belgian police unit after mistaking it for the municipality of Zwijndrecht. Belgian media outlets called the data leak one of the biggest public service exposures in the country's history,…
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"Attackers Lure Victims to Click on Fake Invoice to Bypass Microsoft Office 365 Email Security"
Armorblox researchers detailed an attack in which the threat actor tricked victims with a fake invoice before bypassing Microsoft Office 365 email security, potentially compromising over 100,000 users. The researchers discovered and stopped this…
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"Users Warned of New Aerst, ScareCrow, and Vohuk Ransomware Families"Security researchers at Fortinet have shared information on three new ransomware families named Aerst, ScareCrow, and Vohuk. The researchers noted that the new ransomware targets Windows computers encrypts victim files, and demands a ransom payment…
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"Telstra Blames IT Blunder for Leak of 130,000 Customer Records"Telstra, an Australian telecommunications company, has stated that an internal Information Technology (IT) error caused a data leak affecting hundreds of thousands of customers. On December 9, the company announced that it had discovered an error that…
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"Security Researchers Discover 22 Issues in Google One VPN"The Google One Virtual Private Network (VPN) service is now available to Google One Premium members in over 20 countries. During the summer, NCC Group, an information assurance firm, conducted a security assessment of the Google One VPN service and…
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"Researchers Find 63 Zero-Day Bugs at Latest Pwn2Own"
Participants at the latest Pwn2Own competition discovered many zero-day vulnerabilities in a range of products. The contest is run by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). During the competition, which lasted three days, contestants were…
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"Transitive Dependencies Account for 95% of Bugs"
Security researchers at Endor Labs have discovered that nearly all open source vulnerabilities (95%) are found in transitive or indirect dependencies. The researchers noted that developers increasingly favor open source as a way to accelerate time…
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"Preparations for Quantum Cyber Threat Get a Senate Boost"
The Senate has passed the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act to bolster national security by preparing the federal government's defenses against quantum-computing-enabled data breaches. The bill aims to protect sensitive data from the…
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