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"US Authorities Attempting to Recover $5.3 Million Stolen in BEC Scam"The US Justice Department recently announced that it has filed a civil forfeiture action in an attempt to recover more than $5.3 million lost by a Massachusetts workers union in a business email compromise (BEC) scam. The union was not named but i
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"FBI Unveils 7,000 Decryption Keys to Aid LockBit Victims"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has over 7,000 decryption keys to help "LockBit" ransomware victims.
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"Linux Version of TargetCompany Ransomware Focuses on VMware ESXi"A new Linux variant of "TargetCompany" ransomware targets VMware ESXi environments with a custom shell script to deliver and execute payloads.
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"Interpol and FBI Break Up a Cyber Scheme in Moldova to Get Asylum for Wanted Criminals"Interpol and the FBI recently cracked down on attempts in Moldova to sabotage one of the international police agency’s key tools, the Red Notice system.
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"RansomHub Extortion Gang Linked to Now-Defunct Knight Ransomware"Security researchers at Symantec have started analyzing the relatively new RansomHub ransomware-as-a-service and believe it has evolved from the currently defunct Knight ransomware project.
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"Chinese Threat Clusters Triple-Team High-Profile Asia Government Org"A trio of Chinese state-aligned threat clusters under the name "Operation Crimson Palace" stole military and political secrets from a government organization in Southeast Asia.
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"New Techniques Emerge to Stop Audio Deepfakes"Audio deepfakes are becoming more dangerous, which prompted the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch its Voice Cloning Challenge. Academics and industry contestants had to develop ideas to prevent, monitor, and evaluate malicious voice cloning.
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"FBI Warns of Rise in Work-From-Home Scams"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned about increased work-from-home scams. The advisory states that scammers call or message potential victims posing as reputable businesses or recruiting agencies.
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"Ransomware Gang Leaks Data From Australian Mining Company"Northern Minerals, an Australian rare-earth metals producer, reported a data breach after a ransomware group released data stolen from the company.
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"NsaRescueAngel Backdoor Account Again Discovered in Zyxel Products"Taiwan-based networking device manufacturer Zyxel recently announced three critical severity vulnerabilities in two discontinued NAS products that could lead to command injection and arbitrary code execution.
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"225,000 More Cybersecurity Workers Needed in US: CyberSeek"According to security researchers at CyberSeek, over 200,000 more cybersecurity workers are needed in the United States to close the talent gap. Currently, there are more than 1.2 million cybersecurity workers in the United States.
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"This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows' New Recall AI"Windows Recall, which takes screenshots of a user's activity every five seconds and saves them on their device, is easy to abuse, according to cybersecurity researchers.