February 2024

LoanDepot Ransomware Attack Exposed 16.9 Million Individuals

LoanDepot Ransomware Attack Exposed 16.9 Million Individuals 2024-02-26 at 17:33 By Ionut Arghire Lending firm LoanDepot said the personal information of 16.9 million people was stolen in a ransomware attack in early January. The post LoanDepot Ransomware Attack Exposed 16.9 Million Individuals appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed […]

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Bitdefender Cryptomining Protection detects malicious cryptojacking attempts

Bitdefender Cryptomining Protection detects malicious cryptojacking attempts 2024-02-26 at 17:02 By Industry News Bitdefender announced Cryptomining Protection, a cryptomining management feature that allows users to both protect against malicious cryptojacking and manage their own legitimate cyptomining initiatives on their Windows PCs. According to a 2023 report, cryptojacking attacks have increased nearly 400% year over year,

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NetSTAR PhishCompass combats phishing threats

NetSTAR PhishCompass combats phishing threats 2024-02-26 at 16:31 By Industry News NetSTAR announced an advancement in phish detection technology with the introduction of PhishCompass. This innovative AI-supported solution marks a significant milestone in the ongoing battle against phishing threats and attacks, tailored for a wide range of industry sectors including security, networking, cloud services, service

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Qualcomm inserts GenAI into smartphones at industry’s mega tradeshow

Qualcomm inserts GenAI into smartphones at industry’s mega tradeshow 2024-02-26 at 16:22 By Dan Robinson Just what Android fans were missing, amirite? A 7 billion parameter LLM that accepts image and voice prompts? MWC  Qualcomm is going big on AI at MWC, where it’s showing off a 7 billion parameter large language model running on

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8,000+ Subdomains of Trusted Brands Hijacked for Massive Spam Operation

8,000+ Subdomains of Trusted Brands Hijacked for Massive Spam Operation 2024-02-26 at 16:21 By More than 8,000 subdomains belonging to legitimate brands and institutions have been hijacked as part of a sophisticated distribution architecture for spam proliferation and click monetization. Guardio Labs is tracking the coordinated malicious activity, which has been ongoing since at least

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Welcome to Adventures in Cybersecurity: The Defender Series

Welcome to Adventures in Cybersecurity: The Defender Series 2024-02-26 at 16:04 By David Broggy I’m happy to say I’m done chasing Microsoft certifications (AZ104/AZ500/SC100), and as a result, I’ve had the time to put some effort into a blog series that hopefully will entertain and inform you with some of the topics around cybersecurity. As a security

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DataVisor introduces fraud and risk solution for financial institutions

DataVisor introduces fraud and risk solution for financial institutions 2024-02-26 at 16:04 By Industry News DataVisor launched a solution designed to both detect fraud and financial crimes more effectively and to uphold sponsor bank compliance in the face of evolving regulations for Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) offerings. As the fintech industry continues to rapidly evolve amidst a

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LockBit Ransomware Gang Resurfaces With New Site

LockBit Ransomware Gang Resurfaces With New Site 2024-02-26 at 15:56 By Ionut Arghire The LockBit ransomware operators announce a new leak site as they try to restore credibility after law enforcement takedown. The post LockBit Ransomware Gang Resurfaces With New Site appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View

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Pikabot returns with new tricks up its sleeve

Pikabot returns with new tricks up its sleeve 2024-02-26 at 15:32 By Helga Labus After a short hiatus, Pikabot is back, with significant updates to its capabilities and components and a new delivery campaign. About the Pikabot loader Pikabot is a loader – a type of malware whose primary function is to serve as a

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AT&T’s apology for Thursday’s outage should stretch to a cup of coffee

AT&T’s apology for Thursday’s outage should stretch to a cup of coffee 2024-02-26 at 15:20 By Richard Speed Check your service level agreements to make sure you’ll at least get a slice of cake when your vendor goes down The $5 credit AT&T is offering to customers affected by last week’s major outage highlights that

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Palo Alto Networks empowers customers with integrated private 5G solutions

Palo Alto Networks empowers customers with integrated private 5G solutions 2024-02-26 at 15:20 By Industry News Palo Alto Networks announced end-to-end private 5G security solutions and services in collaboration with leading Private 5G partners. Bringing together Palo Alto Networks enterprise-grade 5G Security and Private 5G partner integrations and services allows organizations to easily deploy, manage,

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Data watchdog tells off outsourcing giant for scanning staff biometrics despite ‘power imbalance’

Data watchdog tells off outsourcing giant for scanning staff biometrics despite ‘power imbalance’ 2024-02-26 at 14:54 By Lindsay Clark 2,000 employees at 38 facilities had data processed ‘unlawfully’, ICO says A data protection watchdog in the UK has issued an enforcement notice to stop Serco from using facial recognition tech and fingerprint scanning to monitor

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North Korean Hackers Targeting Developers with Malicious npm Packages

North Korean Hackers Targeting Developers with Malicious npm Packages 2024-02-26 at 14:38 By A set of fake npm packages discovered on the Node.js repository has been found to share ties with North Korean state-sponsored actors, new findings from Phylum show. The packages are named execution-time-async, data-time-utils, login-time-utils, mongodb-connection-utils, and mongodb-execution-utils. One of the packages in

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Intel Edge Platform simplifies development and management of edge AI apps

Intel Edge Platform simplifies development and management of edge AI apps 2024-02-26 at 14:00 By Industry News Intel announced its new Edge Platform, a modular, open software platform enabling enterprises to develop, deploy, run, secure, and manage edge and AI applications at scale with cloud-like simplicity. Together, these capabilities will accelerate time-to-scale deployment for enterprises,

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ScreenConnect flaws exploited to deliver all kinds of malware (CVE-2024-1709, CVE-2024-1708)

ScreenConnect flaws exploited to deliver all kinds of malware (CVE-2024-1709, CVE-2024-1708) 2024-02-26 at 13:36 By Zeljka Zorz The recently patched vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-1709, CVE-2024-1708) in ConnectWise ScreenConnect software are being exploited by numerous attackers to deliver a variety of malicious payloads. About ConnectWise ScreenConnect ConnectWise ScreenConnect is a remote desktop solution consisting of server and client

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