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"Beware – Your Customer Chatbot is Almost Certainly Insecure: Report"Customer chatbots built on general-purpose generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) engines are easy to develop but difficult to secure. Ashley Beauchamp was able to trick DPD's chatbot in January 2024. The chatbot swore, criti
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"Western Sydney University Data Breach Exposed Student Data"Western Sydney University (WSU) has recently notified students and academic staff about a data breach after threat actors breached its Microsoft 365 and Sharepoint environment.
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"NYSE Operator Intercontinental Exchange Gets $10M SEC Fine Over 2021 Hack"The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced that the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has agreed to pay a $10 million fine to settle charges related to a cyberattack that occurred in 2021.
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"400,000 Impacted by CentroMed Data Breach"San Antonio-based healthcare provider El Centro Del Barrio (which operates as CentroMed) recently started informing 400,000 patients that their personal and protected health information was compromised in a recent cyberattack.
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"55,000 Impacted by Cyberattack on California School Association"The Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) recently started informing nearly 55,000 individuals that their information may have been compromised in a cyberattack.
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"LSU Cybersecurity Team Receives $600K Grant From NSF to Combat Malware"Louisiana State University (LSU) cybersecurity researcher and associate professor Elias Bou-Harb and University of South Carolina (USC) collaborators received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to combat malware.
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"Chinese Hackers Rely on Covert Proxy Networks to Evade Detection"Mandiant has found that Chinese-backed threat actors are increasingly using Operational Relay Boxes (ORBs) in cyber espionage activities.
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"GHOSTENGINE Exploits Vulnerable Drivers to Disable EDRs in Cryptojacking Attack"A new cryptocurrency jacking campaign uses vulnerable drivers to disable Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions and evade detection in Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attacks.
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"Chinese Hackers Hide on Military and Government Networks for 6 Years"Since 2018, a threat actor dubbed "Unfading Sea Haze" has targeted military and government entities in the South China Sea region without detection. According to Bitdefender researchers, the threat group's intelligence collection and es
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"Sounding the Alarm: UF Cybersecurity Expert Exposes Audio Deepfake"Patrick Traynor, a University of Florida (UF) professor, along with UF's Florida Institute for Cybersecurity team are researching robust ways to defend against deepfake technology. The research, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF
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"US to Invest $50 Million in Securing Hospitals Against Cyber Threats"The US government's Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has announced a $50 million cybersecurity effort to help Information Technology (IT) teams protect hospital environments from cyberattacks.
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"Report Reveals 341% Rise in Advanced Phishing Attacks"Security researchers at SlashNext have reported a 341% increase in malicious phishing links, business email compromise (BEC), QR code, and attachment-based threats in the past six months. This data comes from SlashNext's mid-year