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"Malware Is Now Targeting Apple's New M1 Processor"Hackers are increasingly targeting Apple computers, with adware and ransomware being tailored to Macs, and attackers stepping up their efforts to evade Apple's latest defenses. Malware authors are already targeting Apple's new ARM-based M1 processors… -
"Windows and Linux Servers Targeted by New WatchDog Botnet for Almost Two Years"Cybersecurity researchers at Unit42, a security division at Palo Alto Networks, have discovered a cryptomining botnet called WatchDog. According to the researchers, the WatchDog botnet has been active since January 2019, targeting both Windows and Linux…
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"SDK Bug Lets Attackers Spy on User’s Video Calls Across Dating, Healthcare Apps"Researchers from McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) discovered a flaw (CVE-2020-25605) in a video-calling SDK from a Santa Clara, Calif.-based company called Agora while doing a security audit last year of a personal robot called “temi,” which uses…
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"Phishers Tricking Users Via Fake LinkedIn Private Shared Document"Security researchers have discovered that phishers are trying to trick LinkedIn users into opening a “LinkedIn Private Shared Document” and entering their login credentials into a fake LinkedIn login page. The phishing message is delivered via…
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"Helping Industry Develop Secure Grid Technologies"The power grid has become an increasingly attractive target for cybercriminals. Cybersecurity researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are developing next-generation tools to bolster the power grid and other critical infrastructure…
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"Analysts Need Advanced Automation Tools to Reduce Fear of Missing Incidents"The cybersecurity firm FireEye has announced the release of the IDC InfoBrief titled "The Voice of the Analysts: Improving Security Operations Center Processes Through Adapted Technologies." The report shares findings from a survey of 350 internal and…
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"Malware Increased by 358% in 2020"Researchers from Deep Instinct discovered that malware increased by 358% overall and ransomware increased by 435% compared with 2019. The distribution of Emotet malware increased significantly in 2020 by 4,000%. Malware targeting Android…
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"INL Researchers Publish Book to Prevent Cybersecurity Disruptions, Train Workforce"Andy Bochman and Sarah Freeman, two cybersecurity researchers at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), published a new book titled "Countering Cyber Sabotage: Introducing Consequence-Driven, Cyber-Informed Engineering." The researchers wrote the book to…
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"Misconfigured Baby Monitors Allow Unauthorized Viewing"Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability affecting multiple baby monitors that could allow an adversary to drop in and view a camera’s video stream. Potentially hundreds of thousands of live devices are impacted, the researchers stated…
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"100+ Financial Services Firms Targeted in Ransom DDoS Attacks in 2020"The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) has revealed that more than 100 financial services firms across Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia were targeted in a flood of Ransom Distributed Denial-of-Service (…
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"IRS Alerts U.S. Taxpayers About e-File Identity Theft via Phishing Attacks"The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has had to issue several warnings about the use of the IRS name or logo by scammers seeking to trick consumers into giving access to their financial data to steal their assets. Using the IRS name is a popular tactic…
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"Malvertisers Exploited Browser Zero-Day to Redirect Users to Scams"The ScamClub malvertising group exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the WebKit web browser engine to deliver malicious payloads that redirect users to scams offering gift cards. WebKit is used in Chrome on iOS and Safari. Over the past three months,…