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"Celeb SIM-Swap Crime Ring Stole $100M from U.S. Victims"Recently many alleged SIM-swapping cybercriminals have been arrested across Europe by law-enforcement after the crooks finagled more than $100 million from U.S. victims. The attacks orchestrated by this criminal gang targeted thousands of victims… -
"Researchers Identify 223 Vulnerabilities Used in Recent Ransomware Attacks"Researchers from RiskSense have identified 223 different IT security vulnerabilities in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database that were exploited in the performance of ransomware attacks in 2020. The number of vulnerabilities used in…
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"Political Bias and Impulsive Behavior Open Door to Misinformation"A new peer-reviewed study from researchers at MIT and the UK’s Exeter University has been recently conducted and began by identifying 842 random Twitter users who displayed partisan bias towards the Republican or Democratic Party. The researchers…
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"Various Malware Lurks in Discord App to Target Gamers"Security researchers from Zscaler ThreatLabZ have found multiple active malware campaigns targeting the Discord group-chatting platform. The app is used by gamers and for creating communities on the web, called “servers,” either as standalone…
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"Deepfake Detectors Can Be Defeated, Researchers Show for the First Time"Deepfakes refer to synthetic media, including images, audio, and videos, that are manipulated or created using Artificial Intelligence (AI). Deepfakes have received a lot of attention as they can be used to spread misleading or false information. In…
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"High Demand for Hacker Services on Dark Web Forums"According to new research by Positive Technologies, 90 percent of users of dark web forums are seeking hackers who can give them a specific resource or provide a user database. The study involved exploring the ten most prominent forums on the dark web…
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"Google Says It's Too Easy for Hackers to Find New Security Flaws"New research from Maddie Stone, a researcher who is part of the Google security team called Project Zero, brings further attention to the ease at which hackers keep exploiting zero-day security flaws. It is easy for hackers to exploit zero-day…
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"Credential Theft Attacks Doubled Between 2016 and 2020"According to security researchers, the number of attacks resulting in large-scale credential theft has almost doubled over the past four years, although the volume of breached login pairs declined. The average breach volumes declined from 63 million…
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"Supply-Chain Hack Breaches 35 Companies, Including PayPal, Microsoft, Apple"An ethical hacker named Alex Birsan has demonstrated a novel supply-chain attack that breached the systems of more than 35 technology players, including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix, Tesla, and Uber, by exploiting public, open-source…
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"Microsoft Says It's Time to Attack Your Machine-Learning Models"Hyrum Anderson, the principal architect of the Azure Trustworthy Machine Learning (ML) group at Microsoft, gave a presentation at the recent USENIX ENIGMA Conference in which they called on mature companies to conduct red team attacks against their ML…
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"Researchers Discover Exposed Comcast Database Containing 1.5 Billion Records"The WebsitePlanet research team, in collaboration with Jeremiah Fowler, a security researcher, discovered a database containing more than 1.5 billion records without password protection. The database consists of references that suggest that it belongs to…
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"Cyberpunk 2077 Maker Was Hit With a Ransomware Attack—and Won't Pay Up"The Polish video game company CD Projekt Red, which developed Cyberpunk 2077, one of the top-selling titles of 2020, has been hit by a ransomware attack. CD Projekt Red recently revealed that it had been the victim of a ransomware attack in which…