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  • "T-Mobile Retailer Guilty of $25m Fraud Scheme"

    The former owner of a T-Mobile store, Argishti Khudaverdyan, 44, of Burbank, has been found guilty of a multimillion-dollar scheme to illegally unlock and unblock mobile devices.  Khudaverdyan was found guilty of 14 federal charges, including wire…

  • "VirusTotal Reveals Most Impersonated Software in Malware Attacks"

    Threat actors are increasingly impersonating legitimate applications such as Skype, Adobe Reader, and VLC Player in order to take advantage of trust relationships and increase the likelihood of a successful social engineering attack. According to…

  • "LV Ransomware Attack Targets German Semiconductor Manufacturer Semikron"

    Semikron, a German power electronics manufacturer, has revealed that a ransomware attack partially encrypted its network. Semikron employs approximately 3,000 people across 24 offices and 8 production facilities in Germany, Brazil, China, France, India,…

  • "U-M Spin-off Agita Labs Releases Always Encrypted Computing Product"

    TrustForge, which is based on University of Michigan (U-M) research, enables users to protect data using a process known as sequestered encryption. As computing capabilities expand exponentially, so do the threats to private and professional users…

  • "Post-quantum Encryption Contender Is Taken Out by Single-Core PC and 1 Hour"

    A new attack involving a single traditional computer broke a fourth-round candidate in the US government's ongoing campaign aimed at protecting data in the age of quantum computers, highlighting the risks involved in standardizing the next generation of…

  • "Spanish Research Center Suffers Cyberattack Linked to Russia"

    Recently Spain's leading scientific research body was targeted by a cyberattack that national authorities suspect had its origin in Russia.  Spain's science ministry stated that the Spanish National Research Council was affected by a ransomware…

  • "VMware Urges Admins to Patch Critical Auth Bypass Bug Immediately"

    VMware has issued an alert to administrators to patch a critical authentication bypass security flaw that affects local domain users in multiple products and allows unauthenticated attackers to gain administrator privileges. PetrusViet of VNG Security…

  • "Yale to Partner in NSF Program Advancing Cybersecurity and Privacy"

    Yale University is one of the key partners in the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program, a $25.4 million multi-institutional effort funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance research and center-scale projects in cybersecurity and…

  • "Taiwan Sees Cyberattack, Chinese Warplanes Amid Spat With China Over Expected Pelosi Visit"

    Taiwan on Tuesday was hit with a cyberattack and threatened by Chinese warplanes flying near its boundary in the Taiwan Straight as tensions with Beijing have escalated ahead of an unconfirmed visit from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.  The…

  • "Hackers Abuse ‘Chaotic’ Nomad Exploit to Drain Almost $200M in Crypto"

    Cross-chain messaging protocol Nomad has become the target of crypto’s latest nine-figure attack after hackers abused a “chaotic” security exploit to steal almost $200 million in digital assets.  Nomad is a token bridge that allows users to send and…

  • "New CosmicStrand Rootkit Targets Gigabyte and ASUS Motherboards"

    A rootkit called CosmicStrand has been discovered in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) of specific computers. The rootkit, according to researchers, is stored in the firmware images of Gigabyte or ASUS motherboards. The infected firmware…

  • "Austria Probes Claim Spyware Targeted Law Firms, Banks"

    Austria recently said it was investigating a report that an Austrian company developed spyware targeting law firms, banks, and consultancies in at least three countries. Microsoft's security team recently found that a malware called Subzero, …