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"Conti Ransomware Gang's Playbook Gets Translated Into English, Gives Insight Into Attacks"Researchers from Cisco Talos were able to translate the Conti ransomware gang's leaked internal materials, thus revealing details about the group's attack methods. The materials suggest that their attack methods were designed to allow low-skilled actors… -
"Accellion Breach Impacts Beaumont Health"Another Accellion breach victim has been named nine months after threat actors exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in the company’s File Transfer Application. Beaumont Health has notified approximately 1500 patients that their personal data may have…
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"LockFile Ransomware Attacks Exploit ProxyShell Vulnerabilities on Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers"The U.S. Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency alert pertaining to the active exploitation of Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerabilities by threat actors in the wild. ProxyShell is a…
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"Misinformation on Facebook Got Six Times More Clicks Than Factual News During The 2020 Election, Study Says"Researchers at New York University and Université Grenoble Alpes in France conducted a new study of user behavior on Facebook around the 2020 election. The forthcoming peer-reviewed study reports that from August 2020 to January 2021, news…
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"Comcast Flaw Could Have Turned Remotes into Listening Devices"The cloud and data center security company Guardicore discovered a new attack vector on Comcast's XR11 voice remote that would allow attackers to turn it into a listening device, posing a significant threat to a user's privacy. The attack dubbed…
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"UK Researchers Invent Device to Thwart USB Malware"A team of researchers at Liverpool Hope University have designed a new device, which they claim will mitigate the risk of malicious USB drives. The researchers stated that the device has been engineered to overcome a significant issue with…
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"Cybersecurity Education Helps Communities Become More Cyber Secure"As part of the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity awarded a two-year $1.67 million grant to the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) at the University of Texas at San Antonio to…
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"A Popular Smart Home Security System Can Be Remotely Disarmed, Researchers Say"Researchers at the cybersecurity company Rapid7 discovered two vulnerabilities in Fortress S03, a popular smart home security system. The exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to the system being disarmed by malicious actors. Fortress S03…
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"Bad Bots Focus Attacks on E-Commerce Targets"Researchers from Barracuda Networks conducted a new study and published their work in a report called Bot attacks: Top Threats and Trends. During their research, the researchers found that nearly two-fifths (39%) of all internet traffic…
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"Bluetooth Devices Proven to Be Vulnerable to Unfixable Security Problems"Researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have detailed a set of 16 new security vulnerabilities dubbed "BrakTooth." These vulnerabilities impact a wide range of Bluetooth Classic (Basic Rate/Enhanced Data Rate)…
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"Feds Warn of Ransomware Attacks Ahead of Labor Day"The FBI and CISA put out a joint cybersecurity advisory (PDF) Tuesday, noting that ransomware actors often ambush organizations on holidays and weekends when offices are typically closed, making the upcoming three-day weekend a prime opportunity for…
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"Cybercriminal Sells Tool to Hide Malware in AMD, NVIDIA GPUs"Cybercriminals are continuing to make progress with attacks involving malware that can execute code from a compromised system's graphics processing unit (GPU). This method is not new as demo code has been published previously. However, projects on this…