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"New Open-Source Software Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts"Norbert Lutkenhaus, executive director of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo, has been working with his research group to develop accurate software models for
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"CAREER Award Recipient Seeks to Secure Web Addresses"Through a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, Taejoong "Tijay" Chung, a researcher at Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, is conducting a project aimed at improving the security of today's Domain Name
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"OVHcloud Sees Record 840 Mpps DDoS Attack"The cloud provider OVHcloud mitigated the largest Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack in terms of packet rate.
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"To Guard Against Cyberattacks in Space, Researchers Ask 'What If?'"Patrick Lin and his colleagues at California Polytechnic State University's Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group recently released a US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded report to highlight the threat posed by space cyberattacks and help predict nov
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"Ransomware Eruption: Novel Locker Malware Flows From 'Volcano Demon'"According to Halcyon researchers, "Volcano Demon" is a double-extortion ransomware player that uses "LukaLocker," a new locker malware, to encrypt victim files with the .nba extension.
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"FakeBat Loader Malware Spreads Widely Through Drive-by Download Attacks"Researchers at Sekoia found that "FakeBat," a Loader-as-a-Service (LaaS), has become one of the most widely spread loader malware families distributed using the drive-by download technique.
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"New RUSI Report Exposes Psychological Toll of Ransomware, Urges Action"A Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) research paper titled "Your Data is Stolen and Encrypted: The Ransomware Victim Experience" brings attention to ransomware victims' mental health.
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"Europol Takes Down 593 Cobalt Strike Servers Used by Cybercriminals"Europol coordinated a joint law enforcement effort called "Operation Morpheus," which took down nearly 600 Cobalt Strike servers used by cybercriminals to infiltrate victims' networks.
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"Stolen Credentials Could Unmask Thousands of Darknet Child Abuse Website Users"Thousands of people with accounts on darknet websites used to share Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) could be exposed using information stolen by cybercriminals.
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"Ransomware Attack Demands Reach a Staggering $5.2m in 2024"Security researchers at Comparitech have discovered that the average extortion demand per ransomware attack was over $5.2m in the first half of 2024.
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"Latest Intel CPUs Impacted by New Indirector Side-Channel Attack"Researchers at the University of California, San Diego found that modern Intel processors, including chips from the Raptor Lake and Alder Lake generations, are vulnerable to a new high-precision Branch Target Injection (BTI) attack called "Indire
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"Critical CocoaPods Flaws Exposed Many iOS, macOS Apps to Supply Chain Attacks"EVA Information Security, a red teaming company, has disclosed details about three vulnerabilities in the CocoaPods dependency manager that affect millions of macOS and iOS applications.