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  • "Cyber Insurance Fail: Most Businesses Lack Ransomware Coverage"

    Organizations do not have enough cyber insurance coverage to protect themselves in the event of a ransomware attack, with only 14 percent of businesses with 1,400 or fewer employees having coverage limits exceeding $600,000. These were among the findings…

  • "Zimbra Auth Bypass Bug Exploited to Breach over 1,000 Servers"

    An authentication bypass Zimbra security flaw is actively being used to compromise Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) email servers. Zimbra is an email and collaboration platform used by over 200,000 businesses in 140 countries, including more than 1,000…

  • "Xiaomi Phones with MediaTek Chips Found Vulnerable to Forged Payments"

    Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T and Redmi Note 11 models have security flaws that could be exploited to disable the mobile payment mechanism and forge transactions via a malicious Android app installed on the devices. Researchers at Check Point discovered the flaws…

  • "Ransomware Is Not Going Anywhere: Attacks Are up 24 Percent"

    According to a report by Avast, there has been a significant increase in global ransomware attacks, up 24 percent from the first quarter of 2022. Argentina, the UK, Brazil, France, and India had the highest quarter-on-quarter increases in ransomware risk…

  • "New Hacker Forum Takes Pro-Ukraine Stance"

    Researchers discovered a new hacker forum taking a unique political stance to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, entertaining only topics and threat activity aimed at Russia and Belarus. The Russian-language site, DUMPS Forum, has been around since…

  • "New Responsible Data Sharing Technique Will Enable Better Understanding of Disease-Causing Genetic Variants"

    Through the use of a novel strategy for securely sharing and analyzing genomic data developed at the UCSC Genomics Institute, scientists may be able to better understand and test for genetic variations that cause cancer and other heritable diseases. To…

  • "Hackers Reportedly Exploited Wiseasy's Remote Control Dashboards to Compromise 140,000 Payment Terminals Worldwide"

    Hackers stole remote control dashboard passwords and gained access to 140,000 Wiseasy payment terminals worldwide. Wiseasy, based in Singapore, is a popular Android payment terminal in the Asia-Pacific region, with offices in 114 countries. The device is…

  • "Android Banking Trojan SOVA Comes Back With New Features Including Ransomware"

    Security researchers at Cleafy spotted the Android banking Trojan SOVA in the wild again, which appears to have new features.  The researchers stated that SOVA was first spotted in September 2021, when its developers posted a roadmap of future…

  • "Boffins Rate npm and PyPI Package Security and It's Not Good"

    Computer scientists at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have evaluated software package registries npm and PyPI using Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Scorecards. In November 2020, the OpenSSF Scorecard project was launched to provide an…

  • "Google Finally Realizes It Needs to Do More to Fight Misinformation in Searches"

    Google is aware its searches can give misleading results, and now they want to fix that.  For example, if one types "can I remove a tick with my teeth?" in Google search, the first thing you'll see is advice from the Centers for Disease Control to "…

  • "Standard for AI Security in Singapore Launched"

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption has accelerated in recent years, from self-driving autonomous vehicles to AI-assisted medical diagnoses. From 2018 to 2020, the percentage of organizations deploying AI increased fivefold globally. While AI has many…

  • "Organizations Warned of Critical Vulnerabilities in NetModule Routers"

    Security researchers at Flashpoint are warning organizations of two newly identified critical vulnerabilities in NetModule Router Software (NRSW) that could be exploited in attacks.  Acquired by Belden earlier this year, NetModule provides IIoT and…