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  • "Luna Moth Ransomware Group Invests in Call Centers to Target Individual Victims"

    Palo Alto Networks Inc.'s Unit 42 released a new report detailing the rise of a ransomware group that has invested in call centers and infrastructure to target individual victims. Luna Moth, also known as the Silent Ransom Group, has been active since…

  • "Google Seeks to Make Cobalt Strike Useless to Attackers"

    The intelligence research and applications team at Google Cloud has developed and released a set of 165 YARA rules to help defenders in identifying Cobalt Strike components deployed by attackers. According to Greg Sinclair, a security engineer with the…

  • "New Ransomware Encrypts Files, Then Steals Your Discord Account"

    In addition to encrypting victims' files and requesting a ransom payment, the new "AXLocker" ransomware family also steals infected users' Discord accounts. Discord sends back a user authentication token saved on the computer when a user logs in with…

  • "Google Identifies 34 Cracked Versions of Popular Cobalt Strike Hacking Toolkit in the Wild"

    There are 34 different hacked release versions of the Cobalt Strike tool, the first of which was shipped in November 2012. Google Cloud has revealed that it discovered these versions in the wild. The Google Cloud Threat Intelligence (GCTI) team found…

  • "SUTD Researchers Developed Phase-Change Key for New Hardware Security"

    As data is increasingly shared and stored digitally, data breaches grow. Scientists are exploring the development of novel methods for securing and protecting data from cyberattacks. Researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD…

  • "The Feds Warn That Hackers Could Hold Midwestern Harvests Hostage With Ransomware"

    American agriculture increasingly relies on software to maintain the country's position as the world's leading food producer. However, this reliance on code-driven machinery has increased the chances of ransomware attacks, which could be especially…

  • "White House Begins to Push Federal Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration"

    The US White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued a new memo outlining the need for federal agencies to begin the transition to post-quantum cryptography before operational quantum computers become available. The OMB recommended…

  • "Atlassian Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Bitbucket, Crowd"

    Atlassian has recently informed customers that it has patched critical vulnerabilities in its Crowd and Bitbucket products.  In the Bitbucket source code repository hosting service, Atlassian fixed CVE-2022-43781, a critical command injection…

  • "Intel's New Deepfake Detector Can Spot a Real or Fake Video Based on Blood Flow in Video Pixels"

    Deepfakes have proliferated on the Internet in recent years. Deepfakes are pieces of fabricated media that use an image or video and someone else's face or voice to create a new, fictitious image of people or events. Deepfakes' continued development may…

  • "Hardware-Assisted Encryption of Data in Use Gets Confidential"

    Data protection is a top priority for organizations responsible for safeguarding their own data and the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) stored and processed on behalf of their business partners and customers. If it is not done correctly, the…

  • "Samba Patches Vulnerability That Can Lead to DoS, Remote Code Execution"

    Samba recently released patches for an integer overflow vulnerability that could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.  Samba is an open-source Server Message Block (SMB) implementation for Linux and Unix systems and can be used as an Active…

  • "Russian Duo Indicted Over E-Book Piracy"

    Recently, a Russian couple has been indicted for allegedly running one of the world’s biggest e-book piracy websites.  Anton Napolsky, 33, and Valeriia Ermakova, 27, both of St Petersburg, were arrested on November 3 in Cordoba, Argentina, at the…