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  • "Researchers Use AI And Create Early Warning System to Identify Disinformation Online"
    Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are using artificial intelligence to develop an early warning system that will be able to identify deepfake videos, manipulated images, and disinformation online. The researchers are taking on this project…
  • "Strengthening Cybersecurity in Sports Stadiums"
    During the February 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, an alarm was pulled, which caused students to move into the hallways towards danger. Nate Evans is the cybersecurity program lead at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National…
  • "4G Networks Vulnerable to Denial of Service Attacks, Subscriber Tracking"
    Researchers at Positive Technologies published a report focussed on the Diameter protocol used to exchange authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) information in LTE networks. The report highlights findings from the analysis of 28…
  • "Hackers Hijack Routers to Spread Malware Via Coronavirus Apps"
    Cybercriminals are starting to get more creative in how they are leveraging the coronavirus pandemic.  Researchers at Bitdefender have found that cybercriminals are hijacking routers and changing Domain Name System (DNS) settings so that the victim…
  • "Hackers Launch Phishing Attack on World Health Organization"
    The World Health Organization (WHO) was targeted in a sophisticated phishing attack suspected to have been launched by a threat group from Southeast Asia known as DarkHotel. The hacking attempt occurred as the agency battles to contain the COVID-19…
  • "Mobile Malware Bypasses Banks' 2-Factor Authentication"
    IBM X-Force researchers have released details about a variant of the TrickBot Trojan, dubbed "TrickMo," which was first discovered by the federal computer emergency response team of German (CERT-Bund) in September 2019. The malware has mainly targeted…
  • NCSU Lablet PI Wins 2020 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award
    Professor Munindar Singh was recognized with the 2020 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. This award acknowledges the contributions of outstanding researchers in the field of autonomous agents, and is granted each year to one individual whose…
  • "China Borrowing Russian Tactics to Spread Coronavirus Disinformation"
    China's state-backed information operations are starting to follow Russia's playbook for spreading disinformation.  The Chinese state-backed information operations usually run disinformation operations aimed at controlling a narrative.  …
  • "Vulnerability in Windows is Already Being Used in 'Limited Targeted Attacks'"
    Microsoft recently reported a security vulnerability, which has been rated high in severity. The vulnerability affects millions of Windows users as it is found in Windows 10, 8, 7, and other recent versions of the operating system. According to Microsoft…
  • "New Mirai Variant Exploits NAS Device Vulnerability"
    A new variant of the infamous Mirai IoT botnet, called Mukashi, is exploiting vulnerabilities contained by Zyxel network-attached storage (NAS) devices to execute distributed denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The flaw exploited by the Mukashi botnet is…
  • "Widely Available ICS Attack Tools Lower the Barrier for Attackers"
    As the number of publicly available ICS-specific intrusion and attack tools increases, the possibility of successful attacks against ICS grows. FireEye researchers have pointed out that specialized skills are often needed to execute attacks against such…
  • "Google's Security Measures Failed to Find Android Malware in Play Store"
    Google has recently introduced many new security measures to prevent malicious apps from appearing on the Play Store.  After these measures were put into place, researchers from Check Point found malware lurking within 56 apps that had been…