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"Researchers Publish Details on Recent Critical Hyper-V Vulnerability"Security researchers at Guardicore Labs have shared details of a critical vulnerability in Hyper-V, tracked as CVE-2021-28476, with a CVSS score of 9.9. The vulnerability impacts Hyper-V's virtual network switch driver (vmswitch.sys). If exploited by… -
"Criminals Are Using Call Centers to Spread Ransomware in a Crafty Scheme"Palo Alto Networks originally discovered the ransomware campaign “BazaCall” in February. Adversaries lure in targets with an email during the campaign, suggesting that a subscription for a service, such as a gym membership, is expiring. Recent…
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"Honeypot Security Technique Can Also Stop Attacks in Natural Language Processing"The growing sophistication of online fake news detectors and spam filters is accompanied by the increasing advancement of attacker's methods for tricking them. These methods include attacks through the "universal trigger." This learning-based method…
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"CISA, NIST to Develop Cybersecurity Goals for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems"The Biden administration has released a national security memorandum to develop cybersecurity standards for critical infrastructure. The "Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems" memorandum brings the U.S. Department of…
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"DDoS attacks in Q2 2021"In a new study, researchers at Kaspersky analyzed DDoS Intelligence statistics they collected on botnets in Q2 of 2021. The researchers stated that the countries that suffered the most DDoS attacks in Q2 were the US (36%), China (10.28%), and Poland (6.…
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"BlackMatter & Haron: Evil Ransomware Newborns or Rebirths"DarkSide and REvil ransomware gangs have recently gone dark, but researchers at Ars Technica may have just discovered the rebranded version of the two ransomware groups or two completely new ransomware gangs. Both of the newly discovered ransomware…
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"Praying Mantis Threat Group Targeting U.S. Firms in Sophisticated Attacks"High-profile public and private entities in the U.S. are being targeted in a malicious campaign similar to the one that focused on attacking Australian companies and government entities last year. Researchers at the cyber technology and services company…
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"Researchers Demonstrate That Malware Can Be Concealed inside AI Models"Researchers Zhi Wang, Chaoge Liu, and Xiang Cui recently released a paper showing the possibility of hiding malware inside of Artificial Intelligence (AI) neural networks to slip it past automated detection tools. The three researchers embedded malware…
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Pub Crawl #52Pub Crawl summarizes, by hard problems, sets of publications that have been peer reviewed and presented at SoS conferences or referenced in current work. The topics are chosen for their usefulness for current researchers.
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Cyber Scene #58 - China's Cyber Belt and Road: Strategic Measures and CountermeasuresCyber Scene #58 - China's Cyber Belt and Road: Strategic Measures and Countermeasures
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SoS Musings #51 - The Vulnerability of the Maritime Industry to CyberattacksSoS Musings #51 - The Vulnerability of the Maritime Industry to Cyberattacks
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"Florida DEO Suffers Data Breach, Over 57K Accounts Affected"Florida's Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) revealed that it had sustained a data breach that targeted its unemployment benefits system affecting over 57,920 claimant accounts. The security incident involved user accounts in the Reemployment…