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"Change Healthcare Breach Affects 100 Million Americans"The Change Healthcare ransomware attack affected the personal information of 100 million US citizens, according to updated information from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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"'Prometei' Botnet Spreads Its Cryptojacker Worldwide"The 8-year-old modular botnet "Prometei" is still active, spreading a cryptojacker and web shell on machines. Prometei was discovered in 2020, but later evidence suggested it has been around since 2016.
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"New Qilin.B Ransomware Variant Emerges with Improved Encryption and Evasion Tactics"Researchers at Halcyon have found an advanced variant of the "Qilin" ransomware with more sophisticated and evasive tactics.
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"White House Issues AI National Security Memo"The White House released a National Security Memorandum (NSM) on Artificial Intelligence (AI), outlining important actions that the federal government should take to ensure the safe, secure, and trustworthy development of the technology.
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"Exploit Released for New Windows Server 'WinReg' NTLM Relay Attack"Publicly available Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploit code for a vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Registry client can be used to take over a Windows domain by downgrading the security of the authentication process.
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"AI and Deepfakes Fuel Phishing Scams, Making Detection Harder"According to Teleport, Artificial Intelligence (AI) impersonation has become the most difficult vector for cybersecurity professionals to protect companies against.
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"Researchers Reveal 'Deceptive Delight' Method to Jailbreak AI Models"Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 researchers have revealed a new adversarial technique they call "Deceptive Delight" that can jailbreak Large Language Models (LLMs) during an interactive conversation by sneaking in a malicious instruction between harmless o
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"Avast Releases Free Decryptor for Mallox Ransomware"Anti-malware vendor Avast recently published a free decryption tool to help victims to recover from the Mallox ransomware attacks. Mallox ransomware was fisrt observed in 2021, and is also known as Fargo, TargetCompany, and Tohnichi.
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"Ransomware Attacks on Healthcare Sector Are Driving Increase in Emergency Patient Care"According to a new report by Microsoft, ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector are rising and putting lives at risk.
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"70% of Leaders See Cyber Knowledge Gap in Employees"According to a new study by researchers at Fortinet, nearly 70% of business leaders believe their employees lack critical cybersecurity knowledge, a sharp increase from 56% in 2023.
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"CISA, DOJ Propose Rules for Protecting Personal Data Against Foreign Adversaries"The United States Department of Justice and the cybersecurity agency CISA have started seeking comments on a proposed rule for protecting the personal data of Americans against foreign adversaries.
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"NotLockBit Ransomware Can Target macOS Devices"Researchers at SentinelOne have observed a new macOS malware family dubbed "NotLockBit" that poses as "LockBit" ransomware. NotLockBit, which is written in the Go programming language, targets both Windows and macOS systems.