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"Firefox for Android Bug Allows ‘Epic Rick-Rolling’"Researchers have found a vulnerability in Firefox for Android that would allow an adversary to launch websites on a victim's phone, with no user interaction. For the adversary to exploit the bug, the attacker would need to be attached to the same… -
"Phish Scale: New Method Helps Organizations Better Train Their Employees to Avoid Phishing"Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method to help organizations better train their employees to avoid phishing attacks. This new method is being called the Phish Scale. The Phish…
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"Mozi Botnet Accounted for Majority of IoT Traffic: IBM"According to IBM researchers, a relatively new botnet called Mozi made up 90% of the Internet of Things (IoT) network traffic observed between October 2019 and June 2020. Mozi has been effective through the use of command injection attacks, which depend…
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"Fatality After Hospital Hacked"A cyberattack on a hospital led to the death of a woman in need of urgent medical treatment. Attackers caused IT systems at the Düsseldorf University Clinic (DUC) to crash, resulting in a woman seeking medical care at the hospital having to be…
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"Maze Ransomware Adopts Ragnar Locker Virtual-Machine Approach"The operators of Maze ransomware have started distributing ransomware payloads via virtual machines (VM). Researchers at Sophos Managed Threat Response believe that the adversaries distribute the ransomware using virtual machines because it should…
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"National Guard Cybersecurity Units Ready to Protect Election"As the US 2020 election draws closer, some states are calling on the National Gaurd to help protect the election process against various threats, ranging from nation-state actors to garage hackers. The National Gaurd will conduct network intrusion…
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"Ransomware Hacking Groups Post Data from 5 Healthcare Entities"NetWalker, REvil, SunCrypt, and Pysa (also known as Mespinoza) ransomware hacking groups posted data on the dark web, allegedly stolen from Assured Imaging, University Hospital New Jersey, National Western Life, The College of Nurses of Ontario, and…
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"QR Codes Serve Up a Menu of Security Concerns"Quick Response (QR) codes are booming in popularity due to the coronavirus. Since more people are using QR codes, hackers are flocking to exploit the trend. In a new study, researchers found that many people are unaware that adversaries can easily…
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"California Elementary Kids Kicked Off Online Learning by Ransomware"Adversaries have carried out a new ransomware attack against a California school district. The attack closed down remote learning for 6,000 elementary school students. The cyberattack against the Newhall School district in Valencia affected…
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"The Phish Scale: NIST’s New Tool Helps IT Staff See Why Users Click on Fraudulent Emails"Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed a new tool called the "Phish Scale." This tool aims at helping organizations improve their training of employees to prevent them from falling victim to phishing…
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"Your Contacts Aren't Safe With Popular Messaging Apps, Warn Researchers"A team of researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Würzburg conducted a study on the privacy of popular mobile messengers, including WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. They were able to perform practical crawling attacks on…
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"DDoS Attacks Skyrocket as Pandemic Bites"Researchers have discovered that the first half of 2020 saw a significant increase in the number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks compared to the same period last year. Neustar's Security Operations Center (SOC) saw a 151 percent…