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Cyber Scene #64 - Cyber: Expanding and ConstrictingCyber Scene #64 - Cyber: Expanding and Constricting
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Cybersecurity Snapshots #26 - North Korean Hackers Are Focusing on Stealing CryptocurrencyCybersecurity Snapshots #26 - North Korean Hackers Are Focusing on Stealing Cryptocurrency
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Spotlight on Lablet Research #26 - Monitoring, Fusion, and Response for Cyber ResilienceSpotlight on Lablet Research #26 - Monitoring, Fusion, and Response for Cyber Resilience
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"EyeMed Fined $600k Over Data Breach"An Ohio-based healthcare provider has been fined $600k over a data breach that exposed the records of 2.1 million patients across America. Adversaries targeted EyeMed Vision Care in June 2020. Attackers gained access to an EyeMed email…
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"SonicWall Customers Warned of Possible Attacks Exploiting Recent Vulnerability"Security researchers at Rapid7 have discovered that hackers have started targeting a recently patched vulnerability affecting SonicWall's Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances. The security flaw in question is CVE-2021-20038, a critical…
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"Mobile Banking Trojan BRATA Gains New, Dangerous Capabilities"The Android malware known as BRATA has new features that allow it to track device locations and do a factory reset in what appears to be an attempt to hide fraudulent wire transfers. According to researchers at the cybersecurity firm Cleafy, the latest…
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"DTPacker Malware Steals Data, Loads Second-Stage Payloads"Proofpoint researchers have discovered a malware packer dubbed DTPacker that multiple threat actors are using to spread Remote Access Trojans (RATs), which are deployed to steal information and function as a springboard for launching other attacks such…
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"NSA: Securing Cloud-Related PDFs Shouldn't Mean Sacrificing Usability"The increased use of editable Portable Document Files (PDFs) has created another path for attackers, but the National Security Agency (NSA) says the right configuration can protect most systems without sacrificing usability. NSA advises users to enable…
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"Education sector hounded by cyberattacks in 2021"Researchers at Check Point Software Technologies have found that education and research were the top targets for cyberattackers in 2021, with an average of 1605 attacks per organization per week, a 75% increase from 2020. Following closely behind…
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"Nigerian Authorities Arrest 11 Members of Prolific BEC Fraud Group"Nigerian authorities have arrested 11 individuals believed to be members of the business email compromise (BEC) crime ring tracked as SilverTerrier. SilverTerrier is also known as the TMT BEC gang and has been active since 2014, compromising thousands of…
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"How Brainjacking Became a New Cybersecurity Risk in Health Care"Brainjacking is a growing concern among cybersecurity experts, which refers to the hijacking of connected medical devices implanted in a human's brain. The performance of this type of cyberattack involves a hacker obtaining unauthorized access to a human…
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"Researchers Develop CAPTCHA Solver to Aid Dark Web Research"A team of researchers from the Universities of Arizona, Georgia, and South Florida developed a Machine Learning (ML)-based CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) solver claimed to be capable of overcoming…