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"Gaming Giant EA Suffers Major Data Breach"Gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) have discovered that hackers have stolen a wealth of data, including game source code and tools for several popular games. The hackers behind the attack have advertised a total of 780GB of data for sale on a dark web… -
"Fastly's Global Internet Meltdown Could Be a Sign of Things to Come"Many popular websites, including Amazon, Reddit, PayPal, Spotify, the Guardian, the New York Times, and more, faced an hour-long outage on the morning of June 8. The issue was traced back to the cloud computing company Fastly, which provides a Content…
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"Mystery Malware Steals 26M Passwords from Millions of PCs"Researchers with NordLocker have discovered a 1.2-terabyte batch of data containing 26 million sets of login credentials, 1.1 million unique email addresses, over 2 billion browser cookies, and 6.6 million files. The massive trove of sensitive data…
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"Meat Company JBS Confirms It Paid $11M Ransom in Cyberattack"On May 31, the world's largest meat processing company JBS confirmed that it faced a ransomware attack. The attack affected some servers supporting the company's operations in North America and Australia, disrupting production for several days. The…
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"'PrivacyMic': For a Smart Speaker That Doesn't Eavesdrop"One of the challenges associated with smart home systems is that they are always on and listening. This raises privacy concerns because such systems could be streaming all of a user's audio back to some servers that could be used for anything,…
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"RockYou2021: Largest Password Compilation of All Time Leaked Online with 8.4 Billion Entries"A list of leaked passwords was posted on a hacker forum, which may be the largest password collection of all time. The 100 GB text file, dubbed RockYou2021, contains 8.4 billion entries of passwords believed to have been gathered from past data breaches…
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"Ransomware Struck Another Pipeline Firm—and 70 GB of Data Leaked"The ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline, which led to a rise in gas prices, panic buying, and localized fuel shortages, brought further attention to how dangerous the disruption of the petrochemical pipeline industry could be. It appears that…
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"CyLab Researchers Discover Novel Class of Vehicle Cyberattacks"A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab discovered a new class of cybersecurity vulnerabilities contained by modern vehicles. According to the researchers, the exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to bypass a…
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"Scammers Access 50% of Compromised Accounts Within 12 Hours According to New Research"The email security company Agari has shared the results from a study on the anatomy of compromised email accounts. The threat intelligence brief titled "Anatomy of a Compromised Account" delves into the use of credential phishing sites by threat actors…
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"Vendor for House Offices Hit With Ransomware Attack"A private company that provides constituent services to congressional and state government offices has suffered a ransomware attack. The Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of the U.S. House released a statement confirming it was notified by…
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"Quantum Holds the Key to Secure Conference Calls"A collaboration between Quantum Communications Hub researchers based at Heriot-Watt University and their German colleagues has brought the world a step closer towards ultimately secure conference calls. Their work has enabled a quantum-secured…
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"This Phishing Email Is Pushing Password-Stealing Malware to Windows PCs"Researchers at Fortinet have released details about a phishing campaign that delivers a new variant of Agent Tesla, which is one of the oldest forms of Remote Access Trojan (RAT) malware. The new Agent Tesla campaign aims to steal usernames, passwords,…