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Botnet Disrupted by FBI Still Used by Russian Spies, Cybercriminals

Botnet Disrupted by FBI Still Used by Russian Spies, Cybercriminals 2024-05-03 at 17:09 By Ionut Arghire A botnet dismantled in January and used by Russia-linked APT28 consisted of more than just Ubiquiti Edge OS routers. The post Botnet Disrupted by FBI Still Used by Russian Spies, Cybercriminals appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an […]

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Ukrainian REvil Ransomware Affiliate Gets 13 Years in US Prison

Ukrainian REvil Ransomware Affiliate Gets 13 Years in US Prison 2024-05-03 at 11:16 By Ionut Arghire Yaroslav Vasinskyi was sentenced to 13 years and seven months in prison for his alleged role in the REvil ransomware operation. The post Ukrainian REvil Ransomware Affiliate Gets 13 Years in US Prison appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article

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Ransom recovery costs reach $2.73 million

Ransom recovery costs reach $2.73 million 2024-05-03 at 08:01 By Help Net Security Average ransom payment has increased 500% in the last year, according to Sophos. Organizations that paid the ransom reported an average payment of $2 million, up from $400,000 in 2023. However, ransoms are just one part of the cost. Excluding ransoms, the

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Verizon DBIR 2024 Shows Surge in Vulnerability Exploitation, Confirmed Data Breaches 

Verizon DBIR 2024 Shows Surge in Vulnerability Exploitation, Confirmed Data Breaches  2024-05-02 at 17:16 By Eduard Kovacs Verizon’s 2024 DBIR shows that vulnerability exploitation increased three times and confirmed data breaches doubled compared to the previous year. The post Verizon DBIR 2024 Shows Surge in Vulnerability Exploitation, Confirmed Data Breaches  appeared first on SecurityWeek. This

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Securing your organization’s supply chain: Reducing the risks of third parties

Securing your organization’s supply chain: Reducing the risks of third parties 2024-05-02 at 08:16 By Help Net Security When Stephen Hawking said that “we are all now connected by the internet, like neurons in a giant brain”, very few people understood the gravity of his statement. But ten years on from his famous interview with

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Finnish Hacker Gets Prison for Accessing Thousands of Psychotherapy Records and Demanding Ransoms

Finnish Hacker Gets Prison for Accessing Thousands of Psychotherapy Records and Demanding Ransoms 2024-04-30 at 20:46 By Associated Press In February 2023, French police arrested well-known Finnish hacker Aleksanteri Kivimäki, who was living under a false identity near Paris. He was deported to Finland. His trial ended last month. The post Finnish Hacker Gets Prison

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Critical WordPress Automatic Plugin Vulnerability Exploited to Inject Backdoors

Critical WordPress Automatic Plugin Vulnerability Exploited to Inject Backdoors 2024-04-26 at 13:16 By Ionut Arghire A vulnerability in the WordPress Automatic plugin is being exploited to inject backdoors and web shells into websites. The post Critical WordPress Automatic Plugin Vulnerability Exploited to Inject Backdoors appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek

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25 cybersecurity AI stats you should know

25 cybersecurity AI stats you should know 2024-04-25 at 06:31 By Help Net Security In this article, you will find excerpts from reports we recently covered, which offer stats and insights into the challenges and cybersecurity issues arising from the expansion of AI. Security pros are cautiously optimistic about AI Cloud Security Alliance and Google

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Scammers eye Toncoin as Telegram-TON partnership grabs headlines

Scammers eye Toncoin as Telegram-TON partnership grabs headlines 2024-04-23 at 12:02 By Cointelegraph by Gareth Jenkinson Telegram’s integration of the TON blockchain and its native Toncoin token has become a honeypot for scammers promoting a referral pyramid scheme. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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People doubt their own ability to spot AI-generated deepfakes

People doubt their own ability to spot AI-generated deepfakes 2024-04-23 at 07:01 By Help Net Security 23% of Americans said they recently came across a political deepfake they later discovered to be fake, according to McAfee. The actual number of people exposed to political and other deepfakes is expected to be much higher given many

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Behavioral patterns of ransomware groups are changing

Behavioral patterns of ransomware groups are changing 2024-04-23 at 06:01 By Help Net Security Q1 saw substantial shifts in activity from some of the most prolific Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) groups, according to GuidePoint Security. RaaS groups attempt to recruit disaffected or displaced affiliates In addition to revealing a nearly 20% year-over-year increase in the number of

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Cannes Hospital Cancels Medical Procedures Following Cyberattack

Cannes Hospital Cancels Medical Procedures Following Cyberattack 2024-04-22 at 09:01 By Ionut Arghire Cannes Hospital Centre – Simone Veil cancels medical procedures after shutting down systems in response to a cyberattack. The post Cannes Hospital Cancels Medical Procedures Following Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View Original

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Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems Following Cyberattack

Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems Following Cyberattack 2024-04-19 at 15:16 By Ionut Arghire Telecom giant Frontier shuts down systems to contain a cyberattack that led to personal information compromise. The post Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems Following Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View Original Source

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Phishing Platform LabHost Shut Down by Law Enforcement

Phishing Platform LabHost Shut Down by Law Enforcement 2024-04-18 at 14:46 By Eduard Kovacs LabHost, a major phishing-as-a-service platform, has been shut down as part of a major law enforcement operation.  The post Phishing Platform LabHost Shut Down by Law Enforcement appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View

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Authorities take down LabHost, phishing-as-a-service platform

Authorities take down LabHost, phishing-as-a-service platform 2024-04-18 at 12:01 By Help Net Security Law enforcement from 19 countries severely disrupted one of the world’s largest phishing-as-a-service platform, known as LabHost. This year-long operation, coordinated at the international level by Europol, resulted in the compromise of LabHost’s infrastructure. International investigation disrupts phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost Between Sunday

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Cheap ransomware for sale on dark web marketplaces is changing the way hackers operate

Cheap ransomware for sale on dark web marketplaces is changing the way hackers operate 2024-04-18 at 08:01 By Help Net Security Since June 2023, Sophos X-Ops has discovered 19 junk gun ransomware variants — cheap, independently produced, and crudely constructed — on the dark web. The developers of these junk gun variants are attempting to

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Understanding next-level cyber threats

Understanding next-level cyber threats 2024-04-17 at 06:31 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Trevor Hilligoss, VP of SpyCloud Labs, discusses the 2024 SpyCloud Identity Exposure Report, an annual report examining the latest trends in cybercrime and its impact. Researchers recaptured nearly 1.38 billion passwords circulating the darknet in 2023, an 81.5%

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Cryptojacker Arrested, Charged for Defrauding Cloud Providers of $3.5 Million

Cryptojacker Arrested, Charged for Defrauding Cloud Providers of $3.5 Million 2024-04-16 at 18:01 By Ionut Arghire Charles O. Parks III was arrested and charged with defrauding two cloud-services providers of $3.5 million. The post Cryptojacker Arrested, Charged for Defrauding Cloud Providers of $3.5 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek

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Former Security Engineer Sentenced to Prison for Hacking Crypto Exchanges

Former Security Engineer Sentenced to Prison for Hacking Crypto Exchanges 2024-04-15 at 14:46 By Ionut Arghire Former security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed was sentenced to prison for hacking and defrauding cryptocurrency exchanges. The post Former Security Engineer Sentenced to Prison for Hacking Crypto Exchanges appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS

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Two People Arrested in Australia and US for Development and Sale of Hive RAT

Two People Arrested in Australia and US for Development and Sale of Hive RAT 2024-04-15 at 14:46 By Ionut Arghire Authorities in Australia and the US have arrested and charged two individuals for developing and selling the Hive RAT. The post Two People Arrested in Australia and US for Development and Sale of Hive RAT

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