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  • "Ukraine Shutters Major Russian Bot Farm"
    The Secret Service of Ukraine (SSU) claims to have dismantled a large bot farm used by Russian special services to spread disinformation and propaganda in the country.  The SSU stated that the million-strong bot farm was used to "spin destabilizing…
  • "Gaming Sector Cyberattacks Up 167% in Last 12 Months"
    Security researchers at Akamai have discovered that cyberattacks in the gaming sector have increased by 167% in the last year.  The researchers also found that the United States is the main target of attackers, followed by Switzerland, India, Japan…
  • "Over 200,000 DrayTek Routers Vulnerable to Total Device Takeover"
    More than 200,000 DrayTek routers are vulnerable to a serious vulnerability, which could expose businesses to network breaches. The DrayTek Vigor 3910 is currently vulnerable to total compromise by threat actors, and it is especially vulnerable if it has…
  • "84 Percent of Companies Have Only Basic Cloud Security Capability"
    According to a new study, the vast majority of businesses are only at the beginning of their cloud security capabilities. For the cloud infrastructure security company Ermetic, Osterman Research surveyed 326 organizations in North America with 500 or…
  • "School Kid Uploads Ransomware Scripts to PyPI Repository as 'Fun' Project"
    A school-age hacker from Verona, Italy, has highlighted why developers must be cautious about what they download from public code repositories. As an experiment, the young hacker uploaded multiple malicious Python packages containing ransomware scripts…
  • "Cisco Business Routers Found Vulnerable to Critical Remote Hacking Flaws"
    Cisco has released patches to address eight security vulnerabilities, three of which could be used to gain Remote Code Execution (RCE) or cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition on affected devices by an unauthenticated attacker. The most serious…
  • "Cloned Atomic Wallet Website Is Pushing Mars Stealer Malware"
    A fake website impersonating the official portal for the Atomic wallet, a popular decentralized wallet that also functions as a cryptocurrency exchange portal, is distributing copies of the Mars Stealer information-stealing malware. When the genuine and…
  • "New Cybersecurity Tool Simplifies Site Evaluations"
    As federal facilities invest in Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) such as solar panels and battery backups, cybersecurity investments must be considered. More energy resources mean increased complexity in management, potentially leading to new cyber…
  • "94 Percent of Companies Have Had Security Incidents with Production APIs"
    According to a new report, 94 percent of companies experienced security issues in production Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in the previous year, with 20 percent reporting a data breach as a result. Salt Security's latest State of API Security…
  • "Black Hat USA Research: Supply Chain and Cloud Security Risks Are Top of Mind"
    Black Hat's eighth annual community survey "Supply Chain and Cloud Security Risks Are Top of Mind," highlights key findings from over 180 of the industry's most experienced cybersecurity professionals, who expressed concerns about cloud service attacks,…
  • "Missile Maker MBDA Refutes Hacking Allegations"
    European missile maker MBDA has publicly denied allegations made on a dark web forum in July that the company was hacked.  The self-proclaimed hacking group who said they were behind the breach is "Andrastea."  Andrastea claimed to have…
  • "Undefined Roles, Responsibilities For Medical Device Security Heighten Risks"
    Cynerio and the Ponemon Institute conducted a survey in which nearly 80 percent of the 517 respondents stated that they did not consider their organization's Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) cybersecurity activities to be…