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"Rapid Money Laundering Response Helps Intercept $27m"International law enforcers have arrested over 1,000 suspects and seized nearly $27m in criminal funds associated with online fraud and money laundering, according to Interpol. Interpol stated that its Haechi-II operation took place over four…
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"Report Details Best Practices for Railway Cybersecurity"The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has released a new report that details best practices for the cyber risk management of railway organizations. ENISA calls on European Railway Undertakings (RUs) and Infrastructure Managers (IMs) to…
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"Ransomware Operators Threaten to Leak 1.5TB of Supernus Pharmaceuticals Data"Biopharmaceutical company Supernus Pharmaceuticals last week confirmed it fell victim to a ransomware attack that resulted in a large amount of data being exfiltrated from its network. The Rockville, Maryland-based company says the attack likely…
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"Deeper Defense Against Cyberattacks"A KAUST team of researchers has developed a method to improve upon the detection of malicious intrusions to combat the growing threat of cyberattacks against industrial control systems. Internet-based industrial control systems are largely used in the…
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"New Chip Hides Wireless Messages in Plain Sight"Researchers at Princeton University have developed a method that incorporates security into the physical nature of wireless transmissions to prevent eavesdropping. Encryption methods currently used to protect communications from eavesdroppers can be…
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"Malware Samples Target Windows Installer Flaw"According to researchers at Cisco Talos, there are malware samples in the wild attempting to exploit a recently disclosed zero-day flaw in Microsoft's Windows Installer software component. The exploitation of this flaw can allow an attacker with access…
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"GoDaddy Announces Data Breach"Data belonging to up to 1.2 million WordPress customers has been exposed in a security incident at GoDaddy. The domain registrar web-hosting company said on Monday that an unauthorized third party had gained access to its systems by exploiting a…
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"Most US Healthcare Apps Susceptible to Cyberattack"Researchers at Outpost24 found that vulnerabilities exist in most of the web applications used by leading healthcare providers in the United States. The researchers found that 90% of the web applications used by US healthcare operators are…
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"Philips Working on Patches for Vulnerabilities Found in Medical Products"Researchers at the industrial cybersecurity firm Nozomi Networks discovered several vulnerabilities in some of Philips' medical products, including the IntelliBridge hub, Patient Information Center iX (PIC iX), and Efficia CM Series. Philips and the US…
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"Wind Turbine Giant Vestas Says Data Was Compromised in Security Incident"Vestas Wind Systems, one of the world's largest wind turbine manufacturers, discovered a cybersecurity incident on November 19, 2021, and has since then been working together with external partners to contain the situation and mitigate its impact.…
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"US Department of Energy Names University of Central Florida as the Winner of the CyberForce Competition"The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the University of Central Florida as the national winner of its seventh CyberForce Competition, which challenged 120 US college and university teams from 33 states and the District of Columbia to stop a…
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"Avoid a Privacy Nightmare With 'Lean Privacy Review'"Sometimes companies conduct privacy reviews on new applications or services to identify any potential privacy issues before they are released. Privacy reviews are typically carried out with involvement from privacy experts and lawyers. Therefore, these…