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"Research Finds Increase in Botnet and Exploit Activity in Q2 2020"Nuspire released a new report on cybercriminal activities, tactics, techniques, and procedures observed in the second quarter of 2020. According to the report, new challenges for security administrators are continuing to emerge as organizations settle…
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"Credential Theft Via Spoofed Login Pages Increase, Healthcare Top Target"According to a new report from IRONSACLES, there has been a significant increase in successful credential theft attempts via spoofed login pages and social engineering attacks in the first half of the year, most of which targeted those working in the…
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"Browsing Histories Can Be Used to Track Users"A study conducted by Mozilla researchers has confirmed that browsing histories can be employed to track users by compiling unique browsing profiles. They collected browsing data from 52,000 Firefox users for two weeks. The examination of the…
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"Red Cross Chief: Cyber Attacks Increasing on Hospitals"Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has brought further attention to the increased execution of sophisticated cyberattacks against hospitals, electricity and water supplies, and other critical civilian…
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"Your Email Threads Are Now Being Hijacked by The QBot Trojan"QBot Trojan operators are using new tactics to hijack legitimate, emailed conversations to steal credentials and financial data. Researchers at Check Point warn that Microsoft Outlook users are susceptible to a module designed to collect and…
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"Cybersecurity Community Concerned About Misinformation"Concerns surrounding misinformation continue to grow among cybersecurity professionals as the amount of online misinformation and fake domains rise. A new report by the Neustar International Security Council (NISC) reveals that nearly half of…
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"Medical Data Leaked on GitHub Due to Developer Errors"A Dutch researcher discovered nine separate files of highly sensitive personal health information (PHI) from apps such as Office 365 and Google G Suite from nine different health organizations on GitHub. The nine files included 200,000 patient…
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"Malicious Behavior Allegedly Found in Advertising SDK Used by 1,200 iOS Apps"Researchers at Snyk, a developer security company, claim to have discovered malicious code in different iOS versions of an advertising Software Development Kit (SDK) developed by Mintegral, a China-based mobile advertising platform provider with offices…
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"New Technique to Prevent Medical Imaging Cyberthreats"Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev developed a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) technique to improve the protection of medical devices against unusual or anomalous instructions, as well as human and system errors. If medical devices such…
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"Researchers Develop New Detection Method to Protect Army Networks"U.S. Army researchers developed a method to protect networks by detecting adversarial activities that current analytical methods may miss. They developed an algorithm for higher-order network representation, called BuildHON+. The goal behind this…
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"Lazarus Group Targets Cryptocurrency Firms Via LinkedIn Messages"New research has discovered that the Lazarus Group, a North Korean-linked APT, has shifted its focus to targeting cryptocurrency and financial organizations. The security researchers discovered a phishing campaign that is targeting businesses…
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"AI Designed To Hunt Out Cryptocurrency Hackers"Computer scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory developed a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) system capable of identifying malicious code that hijacks supercomputers to perform cryptocurrency mining. Supercomputers are attractive…