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"This Company Paid a Ransom Demand. Hackers Leaked Its Data Anyway"A ransomware victim paid to regain access to their network, but the cybercriminals did not keep their end of the bargain. According to cybersecurity researchers at Barracuda Networks, the real-life incident occurred in August 2021, when hackers from the…
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"One-Third of Popular PyPI Packages Mistakenly Flagged as Malicious"Researchers discovered that the scanners tasked with filtering out malicious contributions to packages distributed via the popular open-source code repository Python Package Index (PyPI) generate many false alerts. According to Chainguard's analysis of…
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"French Hospital Hit by $10M Ransomware Attack, Sends Patients Elsewhere"The Center Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF), a 1,000-bed hospital located 28 kilometers from the center of Paris, recently faced a cyberattack forcing the medical center to refer patients to other facilities and postpone surgery appointments. Since CHSF…
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"Researchers Warn of AiTM Attack Targeting Google G-Suite Enterprise Users"A large-scale adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing campaign targeting enterprise users of Microsoft email services has also targeted Google Workspace users. According to Zscaler researchers Sudeep Singh and Jagadeeswar Ramanukolanu, this campaign…
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SoS Musings #64 - Steganography: An Attack Hiding in Plain SightSoS Musings #64 - Steganography: An Attack Hiding in Plain Sight
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Spotlight on Lablet Research #33 - Side-Channel Attack ResilienceSpotlight on Lablet Research #33 - Side-Channel Attack Resilience
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Cyber Scene #71 - Sizing up the Cloudburst, Above and BelowCyber Scene #71 - Sizing up the Cloudburst, Above and Below
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Cybersecurity Snapshots #33 - Car Dealerships Need to Take Cybersecurity More SeriouslyCybersecurity Snapshots #33 - Car Dealerships Need to Take Cybersecurity More Seriously
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"Industry Sets Cyber Standards for Cars and Trucks and Things That Go (Unmanned)"A trade association representing manufacturers of unmanned drones, cars, airplanes, boats, and other vehicles is collaborating with a cybersecurity firm to create voluntary security standards for the autonomous vehicles market. The Association for…
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"Malware Floods npm and PyPI Registries in Supply-Chain Attacks"Sonatype researchers have discovered 186 malicious packages in the npm JavaScript library registry that infect Linux hosts with cryptocurrency mining applications. According to Sonatype, many of the packages published by the same pseudonymous npm account…
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"Ransomware Gang Leaks Data Allegedly Stolen From Greek Gas Supplier"It has recently been discovered that the cybergang behind the Ragnar Locker ransomware has published more than 360 gigabytes of data allegedly stolen from Greece’s largest natural gas supplier Desfa. Established in 2007 as a subsidiary of Depa (…
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"WhatsApp-Spying Virus Found Infesting Knock-off Android Smartphones"At least four counterfeit Android smartphones with Trojan malware in the system partition that targets WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business messaging apps have been discovered by Doctor Web security researchers. These Trojans are designed to execute arbitrary…