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  • "Phishing Campaign Uses Live Chat, Leverages PayPal Brand"

    The PayPal brand is being leveraged in a new phishing scam. The attackers behind the scam are compromising devices and bypassing secure email gateways by using automated scripts and live chat. These unusual techniques emphasize the need for organizations…

  • "Deploying Cloud Security Tools a Top Priority for 60% Of Study Respondents"

    Sixty percent of respondents in a new study by VMware said that the implementation of cloud security tools is their top priority. The study was a part of a larger study developed for the first day of Black Hat in Las Vegas, which found that attackers are…

  • "92% of Pharmaceutical Companies Have at Least One Exposed Database"

    Researchers from Reposify analyzed eighteen leading pharmaceutical companies and their nine hundred plus subsidiaries worldwide to assess the prevalence of exposures of services, sensitive platforms, unpatched CVEs, and other security issues. Their…

  • "FBI, CISA Reveal Most Exploited Vulnerabilities"

    The FBI and the US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), together with the Australian Cyber Security Center (ACSC) and the UK's National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), recently announced the top 30…

  • "Raccoon Stealer-As-A-Service Will Now Try To Grab Your Cryptocurrency"

    Raccoon Stealer has been upgraded by its developer to steal cryptocurrency alongside financial information. Sophos obtained samples revealing that the stealer is being bundled with malware, including malicious browser extensions, cryptocurrency miners,…

  • Defeating malicious cyber actors requires partnerships

    ANNAPOLIS, Md.  –  Participating on a panel alongside other high-level officials from the federal, state and private sector, National Security Agency Deputy Director George Barnes discussed NSA’s role within the nation’s shared…

  • "New Project Uses Empathy to Teach Students about Cybersecurity and AI Ethics"

    Empathy is essential in almost every aspect of daily life, but it is often overlooked in the development of technology, especially technology in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used. Researchers at the School of Information Sciences at the…

  • "IoT: Security Researchers Warn of Vulnerabilities in Hospital Pneumatic Tube Systems"

    Cybersecurity researchers at Armis have detailed a set of nine security vulnerabilities, dubbed PwnedPiper, that were discovered in the system controlling the pneumatic tube networks used in thousands of hospitals worldwide. The exploitation of these…

  • "CISA Launches US Federal Vulnerability Disclosure Platform"

    Bug hunters who want to help the US federal government secure their online assets can now source all the relevant information from a vulnerability disclosure policy (VDP) platform offered by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In…

  • "Russians Tied To The SolarWinds Cyberattack Hacked Federal Prosecutors, DOJ Says"

    The Justice Department recently discovered that the Russian hackers behind the massive SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign broke into the email accounts of some of the most prominent federal prosecutors' offices around the country last year. The…

  • "Android Banking Trojan 'Vultur' Abusing Accessibility Services"

    An Android banking Trojan dubbed Vultur, first identified in March 2021, relies on screen recording and keylogging instead of HTML overlays to capture login credentials. According to security researchers at ThreatFabric, Vultur uses the Virtual Network…

  • "FAU Invention for Privacy of Sharing Files Online Gets U.S. Patent"

    Advancement has been made in secure online file-sharing by a scientist from Florida Atlantic University's (FAU) College of Engineering and Computer Science. Hari Kalva, Ph.D., inventor, associate chair, and professor in the Department of Electrical…