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  • "Karakurt Ransomware Group Targets Methodist McKinney Hospital in Cyberattack"

    The Karakurt ransomware group has claimed that it was behind a cyberattack on Methodist McKinney Hospital (MMH) in early July, according to CBS Dallas Fort-Worth. The threat actors are said to have posted 360 GB of personal data on the dark web.…

  • "Malicious Plugins Found on 25,000 WordPress Websites: Study"

    Security researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have identified malicious plugins on tens of thousands of WordPress websites.  The researchers analyzed nightly backups of more than 400,000 unique web servers and found the existence of…

  • "US Cyber Command and NSA Partner On Defence Efforts For Midterms Elections"

    US military and intelligence entities are renewing their efforts to protect electoral procedures from hacking and disinformation before and during the November midterms elections.  The news comes from the National Security Agency (NSA) and US Cyber…

  • "Patch Critical Flaw in Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center!"

    Unauthorized attackers could exploit a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-36804, in Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center to execute malicious code on vulnerable instances. Software developers all over the world use Bitbucket Server and…

  • "Fake 'Cthulhu World' P2E Project Used to Push Info-Stealing Malware"

    Hackers have set up a fake 'Cthulhu World' play-to-earn community, with websites, Discord groups, social accounts, and a Medium developer site, to infect unsuspecting victims with the Raccoon Stealer, AsyncRAT, and RedLine password-stealing malware.…

  • "Nitrokod Crypto Miner Infected Over 111,000 Users with Copies of Popular Software"

    Nitrokod, a Turkish-speaking entity, has been linked to an ongoing cryptocurrency mining campaign involving impersonating a desktop application for Google Translate to infect more than 111,000 victims in 11 countries since 2019. According to Check Point'…

  • "This New Chip Could Lead To Faster, More Secure AI"

    A team of researchers led by University of Pittsburgh Assistant Professor Rajkumar Kubendran in the Swanson School of Engineering has contributed to the development of a new type of computer chip that could run Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs…

  • "Maritime Cyber Incidents Increased at Least 68 Percent in 2021, Coast Guard Reports"

    According to a new US Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER) report on maritime cybersecurity trends, the importance of cyber hygiene, detection, and response grew exponentially last year because of a 68 percent increase in reported maritime cyber incidents…

  • "Cosmetics Giant Sephora to Pay $1m+ Privacy Settlement"

    One of the world’s biggest cosmetics retailers, Sephora, has agreed to pay $1.2 million in penalties and take corrective action after falling foul of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).  Sephora was accused of failing to disclose to…

  • "Eliminating Algorithmic Complexity Attacks"

    Malicious actors often use Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks to slow down and disrupt network systems. Such attacks attempt to prevent network users from accessing online services by overloading the network with so much data to process that it cannot keep…

  • "DoorDash Data Compromised Following Twilio Hack"

    Food delivery company DoorDash recently revealed that customer and employee data has been exposed due to a recent breach at a third-party vendor.  DoorDash said hackers abused a third-party vendor's access to its systems.  The attacker abused…

  • "TeamTNT Targeted Cloud Instances and Containerized Environments For Two Years"

    The threat actor known as TeamTNT has been targeting cloud instances and containerized environments on systems worldwide for at least two years.  The findings come from CloudSEK security researchers, who posted an advisory on Thursday detailing a…