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"Data Breach Costs Reach New Record High"Security researchers at IBM have found that the average cost of a data breach globally now stands at $4.35m, up nearly 13% on 2020 figures and a new all-time record. During the study, the researchers interviewed 550 organizations in 17 countries…
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"Hackers Scan for Vulnerabilities within 15 Minutes of Disclosure"Palo Alto's 2022 Unit 42 Incident Response Report shows that threat actors scan for vulnerable endpoints within 15 minutes of a new CVE being publicly disclosed, giving system administrators even less time to patch disclosed security vulnerabilities than…
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"Israel's New Cyber-Kinetic Lab Will Boost the Resilience of Critical Infrastructure"The National Cyber-Kinetic Lab for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Operational Technology (OT) is a new governmental lab that is taking shape at the Advanced Technologies Park in Be'er Sheva, Israel's "cyber capital." It will serve as a sandbox for…
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"Malicious IIS Extensions Gaining Popularity Among Cyber Criminals for Persistent Access"Threat actors are increasingly using Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions to backdoor servers to establish a long-lasting persistence mechanism. According to a new warning from the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team, IIS backdoors are also…
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"Hackers Stole $6 Million From Blockchain-Based Music Portal Audius"Threat actors recently infiltrated the decentralized music platform Audius and stole more than 18 million AUDIO tokens, which are currently worth around $6 million. Audius is an Ethereum blockchain-based decentralized streaming service. Users can earn…
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"Discord, Telegram Services Hijacked to Launch Array of Cyberattacks"As evidenced by ongoing, dangerous campaigns, threat actors have figured out how to use the existing functionality and infrastructure of popular messaging apps such as Telegram and Discord to host and execute a variety of malware. According to Intel 471'…
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SoS Musings #63 - Testbeds for Security ExperimentationSoS Musings #63 - Testbeds for Security Experimentation
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Spotlight on Lablet Research #32 - Characterizing User Behavior and Anticipating its Effects on Computer Security with a Security Behavior ObservatorySpotlight on Lablet Research #32 - Characterizing User Behavior and Anticipating its Effects on Computer Security with a Security Behavior Observatory
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Cybersecurity Snapshots #32 - LockBit Ransomware GroupCybersecurity Snapshots #32 - LockBit Ransomware Group
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"IRS Strategic Plan Puts Focus on Secure, Adaptive Digital Transformation"In light of the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) annual observation and mitigation of over 1.4 billion cyberattacks, the new IRS Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2022-2026 highlights the importance of secure digital transformation and protecting critical…
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"European Cops Helped 1.5 Million People Decrypt Their Ransomwared Computers"Over the last six years, European cops estimate that they have assisted approximately 1.5 million people and organizations in decrypting files encrypted by ransomware, saving around $1.5 billion. Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency,…