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  • "Thousands of WordPress Sites Hacked to Redirect Visitors to Scam Sites"
    Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious campaign responsible for injecting malicious JavaScript code into compromised WordPress websites that redirect visitors to scam pages and other malicious websites to generate illegitimate traffic.…
  • "Intel Memory Firmware Bug Hits Hundreds of Products"
    Intel has released updates to address Optane SSD bugs that initially surfaced a year ago. The bugs will affect any servers utilizing the impacted Optane SSD and Optane SSD Data Center firmware. They are classed as "high" rather than "critical" by the…
  • "RuTube Hack: Russian Video Platform Denies Losing Source Code After Cyberattack"
    A Russian video streaming service called RuTube denies losing all of its source code after a recent cyberattack that coincided with Russia's Victory Day. The platform, owned by Gazprom-Media and considered the Russian equivalent to YouTube, has nearly 25…
  • "Trustpilot Forced to Delete Millions of Fake Reviews in 2021"
    Trustpilot, a leading internet reviews site, was forced to pull 2.7 million entries submitted to its platform in 2021 because of fraud, a 23% increase compared to 2020.  Trustpilot noted that it is unclear what factors accounted for the surge in…
  • "Google Taps Smartphone's Bluetooth to Foil Phishing Attempts on User Logins"
    To prevent hackers from successfully infiltrating online accounts, Google will start utilizing the Bluetooth functionality on users' smartphones to verify the legitimacy of logins. The effort was recently announced at Google I/O, highlighting the threat…
  • "Oklahoma City Indian Clinic Data Breach Affects 40,000 Individuals"
    This week, Oklahoma City Indian Clinic (OKCIC) announced that it experienced a data breach exposing the personally identifiable information (PII) of nearly 40,000 individuals.  According to a notice on May 12th, the clinic identified a data security…
  • "Password Reuse Is Rampant Among Fortune 1000 Employees"
    SpyCloud's annual analysis of identity exposure reveals rampant password reuse among employees of Fortune 1000 companies in the technology, finance, retail, and telecommunications sectors. Based on a database of more than 200 billion recaptured assets,…
  • "Known macOS Vulnerabilities Led Researcher to Root Out New Flaws"
    A researcher named Csaba Fitzl discovered some new Apple macOS vulnerabilities by studying and analyzing previous bug reports. One of the vulnerabilities he discovered was a mirror image of a logic flaw that a team of researchers found and executed at…
  • "Nokia Opens Cybersecurity Testing Lab"
    Nokia has recently opened the Advanced Security Testing and Research (ASTaR) lab, an end-to-end 5G testing lab focused on cybersecurity.  Nokia stated that ASTaR will use and develop “cutting-edge tools and techniques” to assess the security…
  • "Novel ‘Nerbian’ Trojan Uses Advanced Anti-Detection Tricks"
    Researchers at Proofpoint have discovered a stealthy, feature-rich malware that has multistage evasion tactics to fly under the radar of security analysis.  The newly discovered and complex remote access trojan (RAT) is spreading via malicious email…
  • "Iranian Cyberspy Group Launching Ransomware Attacks Against US"
    Researchers at Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have found that over the past several months, Iran-linked cyberespionage group Charming Kitten has been engaging in financially-motivated activities.  Charming Kitten is also referred to as APT35…
  • "Quarter of Security Pros Say Mental Health Has Worsened"
    According to a new study from Tines,  over a quarter (27%) of information security professionals say their mental health has declined over the past year, which has impacted productivity.  The automation specialist polled over 1000 security pros…