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  • "Albania Severs Ties With Iran Over Cyberattack"

    Albania has severed diplomatic ties with Iran and ordered Iranian embassy staff to leave, accusing it of orchestrating a significant cyberattack.  Prime Minister Edi Rama said a probe had found "incontrovertible evidence" that Iran "hired four…

  • "New Iranian Hacking Group APT42 Deploys Custom Android Spyware"

    APT42 is a new Iranian state-sponsored hacking group discovered using custom Android malware to spy on targets. Sufficient evidence has been gathered to conclude that APT42 is a state-sponsored threat actor that conducts cyberespionage against…

  • "Sophos: Retail Organizations Pay Significantly Less in Ransomware Attacks"

    New research conducted by Sophos reveals that retail companies affected by ransomware pay less than a third of the industry average when meeting ransom demands. Throughout 2021, the average payment made to a ransomware organization in the retail sector…

  • "Japan Government Websites Hit By Cyber-Attacks, Killnet Suspected"

    The Russia–affiliated hacking group Killnet recently claimed responsibility for a series of cyberattacks against Japanese companies and 20 websites across four government ministries.  In particular, Japan's government is investigating whether…

  • "InterContinental Hotels Confirms Cyberattack After Two-Day Outage"

    InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has recently confirmed its subsidiary Holiday Inn has been hit by a cyberattack.  More specifically, the firm issued a statement saying it was investigating "unauthorized access" to a number of its technology…

  • "Researchers Publish Post-Quantum Upgrade to the Signal Protocol"

    PQShield published a white paper outlining the quantum threat to secure end-to-end messaging and explaining how post-quantum cryptography (PQC) can be added to the Signal secure messaging protocol to protect it from quantum attacks. With the widespread…

  • "Authorities Take Down Prolific WT1SHOP Cybercrime Marketplace"

    According to the US Department of Justice (DoJ), the US and Portuguese authorities have shut down a notorious cybercrime marketplace that made sellers of stolen personal information (PII) millions of dollars over the years.  WT1SHOP was one of the…

  • "Game-Related Cyber-Threats: Almost 100k Malicious Files Last Year"

    Security researchers at Kaspersky disocvered that the total number of users who faced gaming-related malware and unwanted software from July 01, 2021, through June 30, 2022, was 384,224, with 91,984 files distributed across 28 games or series of games.…

  • "Collaborative Machine Learning That Preserves Privacy"

    To effectively train a Machine Learning (ML) model to perform a task, such as image classification, thousands, millions, or even billions of example images must be shown to the model. Gathering such massive datasets can be especially difficult when…

  • "BlackCat Ransomware Linked to Italy's Energy Services Firm Hack"

    It has recently been discovered that the infamous hacking group BlackCat was linked to the recent attack on Italy's state-owned energy services firm GSE.  BlackCat stole a considerable amount of data from GSE, then threatened to publish if their…

  • "CISA, FBI Warn of Vice Society Ransomware Attacks on Schools"

    The FBI and the US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a warning that Vice Society is "disproportionately" targeting the education sector with ransomware attacks, and they expect attacks to…

  • "New Stealthy Shikitega Malware Targeting Linux Systems and IoT Devices"

    Shikitega, a new piece of stealthy Linux malware, has been discovered employing a multi-stage infection chain to compromise endpoints and Internet of Things (IoT) devices and drop additional payloads. In addition to the cryptocurrency miner that will be…