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"Cybersecurity Market for Connected Cars to Grow To $4.14B by 2026"Research and Markets has predicted that the global external cloud automotive cybersecurity services market will increase from $1.74 billion in 2021 to $2.12 billion in 2022 at a Compound Yearly Growth Rate (CAGR) of 21.8 percent and will reach $4.14…
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"IRS Mistakenly Publishes 112,000 Taxpayer Records for the Second Time"In November, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) accidentally republished 112,000 taxpayer data records that were previously published due to a technical issue earlier in the year. An external contractor operating on behalf of the IRS and tasked with…
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"Mobile App Users at Risk as API Keys of Email Marketing Services Exposed"Security researchers used CloudSEK's BeVigil security search engine to analyze 600 apps on the Google Play store and found that 50% were leaking application programming interface (API) keys of three popular transactional and marketing email service…
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"FBI: Criminals Using BEC Attacks to Scavenge Food Shipments"In recent years, threat actors have often employed Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks to steal money from organizations. In a new development, cybercriminals are using these attacks to steal food shipments and ingredients from suppliers and…
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"Open-Source Vulnerabilities Add to Security Debt"Mend found and added 33 percent more open-source vulnerabilities to its database in the first nine months of 2022 than it did in the first nine months of 2021, representing both the increase in the number of published open-source packages and the…
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"Glupteba Malware Is Back in Action After Google Disruption"The Glupteba malware botnet has reemerged, infecting devices throughout the globe after Google halted its operation about a year ago. Google was able to disrupt the blockchain-enabled botnet in December 2021 by obtaining court orders to seize control of…
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"New Agenda Ransomware Variant, Written in Rust, Aiming at Critical Infrastructure"Agenda ransomware has been spotted in the wild with a Rust edition, making it the most recent malware to adopt the cross-platform programming language after BlackCat, Hive, Luna, and RansomExx. Agenda, credited to an operator named Qilin, is a Ransomware…
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"New Web Tracking Technique is Bypassing Privacy Protections"For decades, advertisers and online trackers have been able to aggregate users' information across all of the websites they visit, mostly through the placement of third-party cookies in users' browsers. Prioritizing user privacy, numerous browsers,…
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"Bluetooth Security Challenged"Bluetooth was not designed to communicate secure data, but rather to connect devices wirelessly. According to Ohio State University (OSU) professor Zhiqiang Lin and post-doctoral researcher Yue Zhang, the lack of security built into the short-range…
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"Report Says That Action Is Needed to Prevent AI-Based Attacks Winning the Cyber War"While the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in cyberattacks remains relatively limited, a new paper titled "The security threat of AI-enabled cyberattacks" predicts that this will soon change. The paper, a collaboration between WithSecure, the Finnish…
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"Meta's Bug Bounty Program Shows $2m Awarded in 2022"Social media giant Meta has recently awarded a total of $2m as part of its bug bounty program. The total amount since the program's establishment in 2011 is reportedly $16m. Meta stated that they received hundreds of impactful bug reports in…
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"CISA Researchers: Russia's Fancy Bear Infiltrated US Satellite Network"Researchers at the US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently detected Russian hackers lurking within a US satellite network, raising new fears about Moscow's plans to infiltrate and disrupt the…