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"Ransomware Extortion Demands Are Growing, and so Is the Downtime Caused by Attacks"The average ransom paid by ransomware victims has increased as cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in software and remote desktop protocol (RDP) services. According to Coveware's Quarterly Ransomware Report, the average ransom payment in the first… -
"Justice Department to Launch Ransomware Taskforce"Ransomware authors are continuing to get better at encrypting victims' sensitive information, demanding ransoms, and threatening to leak targets' data online. There has also been an increase in ransom demands, with multiple ransomware groups…
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"Hackers Have Been Exploiting 'Dangerous' macOS Bug to Run Malware Campaign"Hackers have found a way to evade the latest macOS protections. Apple has released macOS Big Sur 11.3, an update to the Mac operating system. The update addresses a flaw that exists in macOS Catalina 10.15 and macOS Big Sur. The exploitation of this flaw…
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"Online Music Marketplace Suffers Data Breach"A cybersecurity consultant discovered millions of retailers' records online in an unsecured Elasticsearch server on April 5th. The consultant was unsure whom the data belonged to. However, upon closer inspection, the consultant noticed many 'test'…
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"CISA's NRMC Fighting Unique 5G Security Risks"The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) National Risk Management Center (NRMC) is working to assess and identify security risks for 5G wireless services. Dan Dagher, supply chain risk management initiative lead at NRMC, recently…
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"The UK Launches Free Cybersecurity Training for School Teachers and Staff"The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which is a part of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), has launched free cybersecurity training for school teachers and staff in the UK to help British schools improve their defense against…
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"Cyber-attack on NBA Team"The Housten Rockets have hired cybersecurity experts after an unknown adversary tried to install ransomware on the basketball franchise's internal computer systems but was largely unsuccessful. Cyber defenses put in place by the team before the…
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"NIST RPKI Deployment Monitor"The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new version of its test and measurement tool developed to monitor the dynamics of the global Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) as well as the effects of RPKI Route Origin…
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"US Cyber Games Launches Cyber Open and Combine"The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has teamed up with marketing and cybersecurity games company Katzcy to launch the first US Cyber Games. Consisting of the US…
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"TLS-Encrypted Malware Volumes Double in Just Months"Security researchers from Sophos have discovered that the volume of malware hidden in encrypted traffic has doubled over the past few months as threat actors look to circumvent security tools. The researchers claim that 23% of the detected malware…
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"ToxicEye Malware Leverages Telegram for C2"Researchers with Check Point Research discovered a new malware variant called ToxicEye. According to the researchers, ToxicEye possesses both data exfiltration and ransomware capabilities. It also leverages the popular Telegram messaging platform for…
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"Researchers Find Flaw That Leaks Email Addresses from Apple's AirDrop"Researchers from Germany's Technical University (TU) of Darmstadt uncovered two flaws in AirDrop's protocol. Airdrop is a feature built into about 1.5 billion Apple devices that allows Mac and iPhone users to seamlessly share and transfer files, photos,…