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"Magecart Serves Up Card Skimmers on Restaurant-Ordering Systems"Researchers discovered that Magecart campaigns have been skimming payment-card credentials of unsuspecting customers using three online restaurant-ordering systems, impacting around 300 restaurants that use the services and compromising tens of thousands…
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"Magecart Serves Up Card Skimmers on Restaurant-Ordering Systems"Researchers discovered that Magecart campaigns have been skimming payment-card credentials of unsuspecting customers using three online restaurant-ordering systems, impacting around 300 restaurants that use the services and compromising tens of thousands…
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"This Cloud Botnet Has Hijacked 30,000 Systems to Mine Cryptocurrencies"The 8220 cryptomining group has grown to include up to 30,000 infected hosts, up from 2,000 hosts globally in mid-2021. According to SentinelOne, this group is one of many low-skill crimeware gangs continously observed infecting cloud hosts, running a…
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"Open Source Platform Enables Research on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning"Researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) have made the largest benchmarking data set available for a Machine Learning (ML) method created with data privacy in mind. The method, known as federated learning, trains ML models on end-user devices such…
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"New Research Puts Your Online Privacy Preferences to the Test"A new study titled "Valuing Intrinsic and Instrumental Preferences for Privacy," conducted by Tesary Lin of Boston University, calls on marketers and websites to separate consumer privacy preferences into intrinsic and instrumental components when those…
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"Synchron Says It's The First to Implant a Human Brain-Computer Interface in The US"Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) have become a practical reality in the US. As Synchron says, it has become the first in the country to implant a BCI in a human patient. Doctors in New York's Mount Sinai West implanted the company's Stentrode…
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"Security Flaws in a Popular GPS Tracker Are Exposing a Million Vehicle Locations"New research reveals security flaws in a popular Chinese-made GPS vehicle tracker. The exploitation of these vulnerabilities can allow threat actors to track and remotely cut the engines of at least a million vehicles worldwide. BitSight, a cybersecurity…
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"Research Offers Solution to Encrypted Messages Being Hacked before Sending or after Receipt"According to researchers from the University of Surrey, message applications must do more to protect user data from undetected malware or over-the-shoulder eavesdropping that bypasses encryption before a message is sent. To combat this issue of close…
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"NIST Selects 12 Companies for Implementing Post-Quantum Cryptography"Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware, Cisco Systems, and Samsung are among the 12 companies chosen by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to lead the Unites States' transition to cryptographic standards that are immune to…
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"Justice Department Seizes $500K From North Korean Hackers Who Targeted US Medical Organizations"The US Justice Department recently seized approximately half a million dollars that North Korean government-backed hackers had either extorted from US health care organizations or used to launder ransom payments. The North Korean hackers hit a…
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"Albanian Government Hit by Massive Cyberattack"The Albanian government, over the weekend, was hit with a "massive cyberattack," forcing its websites offline. In a statement shared with local news outlets, the government blamed the incident on a synchronized "attack from abroad." The National…
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"New Air-Gap Attack Uses SATA Cable as an Antenna to Transfer Radio Signals"Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have discovered a new method for leaking information and jumping over air-gaps. The method involves Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) or Serial ATA cables as a communication medium, thus adding…