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  • "Medibank Group Detects Cyberattack, Takes Several Services Offline as a Precaution"
    One of Australia's largest private health insurers has revealed it was the target of a possible cyberattack.  Medibank Group recently detected "unusual activity" on its network.  Specialized cybersecurity firms were called in as a result, and…
  • "New Ransomware Groups Emerge but Overall Activity Slows"
    According to GuidePoint Security research, eight new ransomware groups emerged in the last quarter, and at least one new ransomware group has emerged each month since January 2021. The GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team (GRIT) report tracked 27…
  • "New Chinese Cyberespionage Group WIP19 Targets Telcos, IT Service Providers"
    According to researchers at SentinelOne, a newly identified cyberespionage group operating out of China has been targeting IT services providers and telecommunications companies with signed malware.  The activities of this advanced persistent threat…
  • "Lessons from China's Cyberattack Strategy Can Help CISOs Better Manage Threats, Report Says"
    A new Booz Allen Hamilton report examined more than a dozen Chinese-sponsored cyberattacks over the last decade. According to Booz Allen Hamilton, Chinese government-sponsored cyberattacks present a challenge to US national security interests both at…
  • "Cyber Resilience Melds Data Security and Protection"
    Ransomware attacks are taking on new dimensions. As people's work habits, daily routines, geographic locations, and trust in institutions changed in the face of global political shifts and the COVID-19 pandemic, ransomware attacks took advantage of the…
  • "Chinese Cyberspies Targeting US State Legislature"
    Security researchers at Symantec have warned that a China-linked cyberespionage group was recently observed targeting a state legislature in the United States.  Active since at least 2010, the group is tracked as APT27, Bronze Union, Budworm,…
  • "N.C. A&T Researchers Awarded $9M DOD Grant for Cybersecurity, AI"
    The US Department of Defense (DOD) Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded $9 million to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University researchers to investigate how to create trustworthy, reconfigurable, and secure Artificial…
  • "Palo Alto Networks, Aruba Patch Severe Vulnerabilities"
    Palo Alto Networks and Aruba Networks have recently released patches for severe vulnerabilities affecting their products.  An advisory published by Palo Alto Networks on October 12 informs customers about a high-severity authentication bypass…
  • "Android Security Warning: Telephone-Oriented Attack Delivery (TOAD)"
    People are being tricked by an Android banking malware attack into entering their phone number and other sensitive information into phishing websites, which cybercriminals then use to call victims and further deceive them into installing malware on…
  • "Here's 5 of the World's Riskiest Connected Devices"
    Forescout's research team examined 19 million connected devices deployed across five industries to identify the riskiest device groups, which are smart buildings, medical devices, networking equipment, IP cameras, VoIP, and video conferencing systems.…
  • "POLONIUM APT Targets Israel With a New Custom Backdoor Dubbed PapaCreep"
    Since at least September 2021, an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known as POLONIUM has used custom backdoors in attacks against Israeli entities. The POLONIUM APT group targeted only Israeli targets and launched attacks on more than a dozen…
  • "WhatsApp Users Beware: Dangerous Mobile Trojan Being Distributed via Malicious Mod"
    Researchers discovered a threat actor distributing a data-stealing mobile Trojan through a spoofed version of YoWhatsApp, a relatively popular modified version of the WhatsApp messaging app. Users who install the app risk having their WhatsApp account…