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  • "U.S. Government Sets up Ransomware Task Force, Offers $10 Million Reward for Info"
    The U.S. Department of Justice said in the announcement that ransomware is a long-standing problem and a growing national security threat. Tackling this challenge requires collaboration across every level of government, the private sector, and our…
  • "Encrypting Photos on the Cloud to Keep Them Private"
    Online photo collections must be secured as they can provide a gold mine of personal data to attackers. A new study by computer scientists at Columbia Engineering has revealed what could potentially be the first way to encrypt personal images on widely…
  • "New Research Shows Cryptographic Vulnerabilities on Popular Messaging Platform, Telegram"
    Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), are part of a team, which conducted a security analysis of the encryption protocol used by the popular Telegram messaging platform that is used by more than half a billion active users…
  • "Iranian Spies Tried Hacking US Military Personnel by Posing as Job Recruiters on Facebook"
    Facebook discovered on Thursday that Iranian government-backed hackers were targeting U.S. military personnel and companies in the defense and aerospace industries, primarily in the US and to a lesser extent in the UK and Europe, on their platform.…
  • "A New Feature Selection Technique For Intrusion Detection Systems"
    Network-based technologies continue to grow in use among individuals, professionals, and businesses worldwide. However, most network-based systems have been discovered to be significantly vulnerable to attacks. A malicious attack on network-based systems…
  • "Phishing Continues to Be One of the Easiest Paths for Ransomware"
    According to a new survey conducted by the enterprise data storage company Cloudian, phishing remains one of the main ways to attack organizations. The survey includes insights from 200 IT decision-makers whose organizations were hit with a ransomware…
  • "Google Finds Zero-Day Security Flaws in All Your Favorite Browsers"
    Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has shared details about four zero-day security vulnerabilities found in popular web browsers, including Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Safari. The zero-day flaws discovered in these web browsers were exploited…
  • "Researchers Find Big Flaw in a Schneider Electric ICS System Popular in Building Systems, Utilities"
    Researchers at a security firm called Armis discovered a vulnerability in Schneider Electric computer control systems which is popular in heating, air conditioning, and other building systems that could allow hackers to control them.  The remote…
  • "Updated Joker Malware Floods into Android Apps"
    The Joker premium billing-fraud malware is back on Google Play in a fresh onslaught, with an updated bag of tricks to evade scanners. Joker has been around since 2017, disguising itself within common, legitimate apps like camera apps, games, messengers,…
  • "Ransomware Giant REvil’s Sites Disappear"
    Just days after President Biden demanded that Russian President Putin shut down ransomware groups, the servers of one of the most prominent groups mysteriously went dark.  Researchers stated that all of REvil’s Dark Web sites slipped offline. It is…
  • "Iranian Hacker Group TA453 Caught Phishing University Scholars"
    Proofpoint researchers recently discovered the Iran-linked hacker group TA453 carrying out a credential-stealing phishing operation called Operation SpoofedScholars. The TA453 threat actors masqueraded as British scholars with the University of London's…
  • "SolarWinds Patches Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild (CVE-2021-35211)"
    SolarWinds has released an emergency patch for CVE-2021-35211, an RCE vulnerability affecting its Serv-U Managed File Transfer and Serv-U Secure FTP currently being exploited in the wild. Microsoft has provided evidence of limited, targeted customer…