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"US Puts Up $10M Bounty on BlackCat Ransomware Gang Members"The US Department of State has announced a $10 million bounty for information that will help law enforcement find anyone launching cyberattacks against American infrastructure on behalf of another country.
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"Splunk Patches Vulnerabilities in Enterprise Product"Splunk recently announced security patches for its Enterprise product, including vulnerabilities that have been assigned a high severity rating. One of the flaws, CVE-2024-29946, impacts the Dashboard Examples Hub in the Sp
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"Malware Upload Attack Hits PyPI Repository"To mitigate a malware upload campaign, the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository's maintainers suspended user registration and the creation of new projects.
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"Linux Version of DinodasRAT Spotted in Cyber Attacks Across Several Countries"A Linux version of "DinodasRAT," a multi-platform backdoor, has been discovered in the wild, with targets including China, Taiwan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.
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"Cisco Warns of Password-Spraying Attacks Targeting VPN Services"Cisco has released a set of recommendations to help customers mitigate password-spraying attacks on Remote Access VPN (RAVPN) services running on Cisco Secure Firewall devices.
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"AI Weaponization Becomes a Hot Topic on Underground Forums"According to ReliaQuest, most cyberattacks against organizations are executed through employee social engineering, and criminals are using Artificial Intelligence (AI), to improve their techniques.
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"Apple ID 'Push Bombing' Scam Campaign Hits Cyber Startup Founders"An Apple ID spearphishing campaign involving push bombing and caller ID spoofing recently targeted several technology professionals, including startup founders and cybersecurity professionals.
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"NIST Unveils New Consortium to Operate its National Vulnerability Database"The US National Vulnerability Database (NVD) program manager, Tanya Brewer, has officially announced that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will delegate some management responsibilities for the world's most popular software vul
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"Cisco Patches DoS Vulnerabilities in Networking Products"Cisco recently announced patches for multiple IOS and IOS XE software vulnerabilities that could be exploited without authentication to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.
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"17 Billion Personal Records Exposed in Data Breaches in 2023"According to security researchers at Flashpoint, reported data breach incidents rose by 34.5% in 2023, with over 17 billion personal records compromised throughout the year.
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"'SAFE'" Technology Protects Data From Theft and Accidental Distribution"Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory developed a new technology to improve data security in various areas. The Secure, Automatic, Failsafe Eraser (SAFE) technology can erase the memory of devices and prevent data disclosures.
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"Is Q-Day Closer Than We Think? IBM Researchers Say Hybrid Quantum-AI May Poses Near-Term Threats"A team of IBM researchers reported in a study that combining Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing (HQCC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies could bring us closer to the day quantum computing undermines current encryption methods.