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  • "Microsoft: Credit Card Skimmers Are Changing Their Tactics to Remain Undetected"

    According to Microsoft, card-skimming malware is increasingly using malicious PHP software on web servers to modify payment sites and avoid browser safeguards activated by JavaScript code. Card skimming has been fueled in recent years by Magecart malware…

  • "Cisco Warns of Exploitation Attempts Targeting New IOS XR Vulnerability"

    Cisco recently informed its customers that it is aware of in-the-wild exploitation attempts targeting a new vulnerability affecting its IOS XR software.  The flaw, tracked as ​​CVE-2022-20821, was discovered by Cisco during the resolution of a…

  • "US Car Giant General Motors Hit by Cyberattack Exposing Car Owners' Personal Info"

    General Motors (GM), a US automobile manufacturer, announced that it was hit by a credential stuffing attack last month that exposed customer information and allowed hackers to redeem rewards points for gift cards.  GM said they detected the…

  • "Towards Having Your Privacy and Security and Exchanging Crypto Too"

    A team of researchers wrote a new paper outlining a new protocol for better privacy and security protections when exchanging cryptocurrencies. Currently, if two people or entities want to exchange one cryptocurrency for another, they can do so directly…

  • "Scientists Create New Method to Kill Cyberattacks in Less Than a Second"

    Researchers at Cardiff University have developed a new method for automatically detecting and killing cyberattacks on laptops, desktops, and smart devices in less than a second. The method, which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML…

  • Pub Crawl #62

    ​Pub Crawl summarizes, by hard problems, sets of publications that have been peer reviewed and presented at SoS conferences or referenced in current work. The topics are chosen for their usefulness for current researchers.

  • "Hackers Compromised Some Zola User Accounts to Buy Gift Cards"

    Zola, a wedding planning startup that allows couples to create websites, budgets, and gift registries, recently discovered that hackers gained access to user accounts but has denied a breach of its systems.  The incident first came to light over the…

  • "Conti Ransomware Operation Shut Down After Brand Becomes Toxic"

    Security researchers at AdvIntel have discovered that the Conti ransomware operation has undergone some significant organizational structure changes in the past months after the brand became toxic due to its affiliation with the Russian government.…

  • "Hackers Can Hack Your Online Accounts Before You Even Register Them"

    According to security researchers, hackers can hijack online accounts before users even register them. This is possible through the exploitation of vulnerabilities that have already been resolved on popular websites, including Instagram, LinkedIn, Zoom,…

  • "Anonymous Declares Cyberwar on Pro-Russian Hacker Gang Killnet"

    Hacktivist group Anonymous has recently announced that it is launching a cyberwar against pro-Russian group Killnet, which recently attacked European institutions.  Last week, Killnet attacked the websites of various Italian institutions and…

  • "Ransomware Hackers Steal Personal Data of 500,000 Students and Staff in Chicago"

    It has recently been discovered that the personal information of more than half a million Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students and staff was leaked in a ransomware attack last December, and the breach wasn’t reported until April.  On Friday, the…

  • "International Experts Forecast Food Cyber Risks for AG-Tech"

    Researchers at Flinders University in Australia, in collaboration with King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia and Aix-Marseille University in France, have identified cybersecurity risks in the use of smart ag-tech. According to King Abdulaziz…