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"The Costs and Damages of DNS Attacks"EfficientIP has shared findings from its eighth annual 2022 Global DNS Threat Report, conducted by IDC, revealing the significant impact of Domain Name System (DNS) attacks on global organizations' operations over the past year. The report highlights…
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"Critical U-Boot Vulnerability Allows Rooting of Embedded Systems"Security researchers at NCC Group have discovered a critical vulnerability in the U-Boot boot loader. An open-source boot loader, U-Boot is used in various types of embedded systems, including ChromeOS and Android. It supports multiple…
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"Evasive Phishing Mixes Reverse Tunnels and URL Shortening Services"Security researchers have observed an increase in the use of reverse tunnel services, as well as URL shorteners, for large-scale phishing campaigns, making it more difficult to detect and stop the malicious activity. This practice differs from the more…
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"New Tool Aims to Stop 'Solver Service' Bots"Researchers at the anti-bot specialist firm Kasada have discovered the use of 'Solver Service' bots, an Application Programming Interface (API)-as-a-service tool designed to bypass most bot management systems. Solving a bot detection system's defense…
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"Bored Ape Yacht Club and Otherside NFTs Taken in Compromised Discord Server"Hackers stole over $257,000 in Ethereum and 32 NFTs following the hacking of the Yuga Labs' Bored Ape Yacht Club and Otherside Metaverse Discord services to execute a phishing scheme. A Yuga Labs community manager's Discord account was hacked and used to…
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"Personal Information of Over 30,000 Students Exposed in Unprotected Database"Security researchers at SafetyDetectives discovered the personal information of more than 30,000 students on an improperly secured Elasticsearch server. The server was left connected to the internet and did not require a password to allow access to…
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"Losses to Cryptocurrency Scams Top $1B, FTC Reports"According to data, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released Friday, losses from cryptocurrency fraud climbed to over $1 billion between January 2021 through March 2022. The number is a big jump from the $80 million in losses the FTC reported…
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"Bad News: The Cybersecurity Skills Crisis is About to Get Even Worse"Security researchers at Trellix have surveyed 1,000 cybersecurity professionals globally and found that nearly a third of the cybersecurity workforce plans to leave the industry in the near future. Organizations are already facing cybersecurity…
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"For Ransomware, Speed Matters"The LockBit group touts its speed over competing ransomware families to attract potential buyers for its ransomware-as-a-service. Earlier this year, the LockBit group posted a table listing encryption speeds for more than 30 ransomware families,…
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"CISA Warns of Critical Vulnerabilities in Illumina Genetic Analysis Devices"The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an advisory to warn of critical vulnerabilities in Illumina genetic analysis devices that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to take over an impacted product. The…
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"Iranian Hackers Planned Attack on Boston Children's Hospital Last Summer, FBI Director Says"The FBI recently released that it managed to detect and mitigate an attack by Iranian state-sponsored hackers against Boston's Children's Hospital last summer. The FBI Director Christopher Wray stated that the quick actions by everyone involved,…
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"UCI Researchers: Autonomous Vehicles Can be Tricked Into Dangerous Driving Behavior"Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that autonomous vehicles can be tricked into an abrupt halt or other undesired driving behavior by placing an ordinary object on the side of the road. The researchers stated that a…