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Secure Email Threat Defense: Providing critical insight into business risk

Attackers specifically craft business email compromise (BEC) and phishing emails using a combination of malicious techniques, expertly…

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Ex-Twitter employee Gets 3.5 Years Jail for Spying on Behalf of Saudi Arabia

A former Twitter employee who was found guilty of spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia by sharing data pertaining to specific individuals has…

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Apple Patches iPhone Zero-Day

The most recent iPhone update—to version 16.1.2—patches a zero-day vulnerability that “may have been actively exploited against versions of…

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Two-Thirds of Security Pros Have Burnt Out in Past Year

Excessive workload is the most common contributing factor

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OECD Signs “Landmark” Privacy Agreement

Club of rich countries wants to improve cross-border data flows

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MTTR “not a viable metric” for complex software system reliability and security

Mean time to resolve (MTTR) isn’t a viable metric for measuring the reliability or security of complex software systems and should be…

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Agenda Ransomware Uses Rust to Target More Vital Industries

This year, various ransomware-as-a-service groups have developed versions of their ransomware in Rust, including Agenda.

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CISA Alert: Veeam Backup and Replication Vulnerabilities Being Exploited in Attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two vulnerabilities impacting Veeam Backup & Replication…

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Minecraft Servers Under Attack: Microsoft Warns About Cross-Platform DDoS Botnet

Microsoft on Thursday flagged a cross-platform botnet that’s primarily designed to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks…

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Goodbye SHA-1: NIST Retires 27-Year-Old Widely Used Cryptographic Algorithm

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency within the Department of Commerce, announced Thursday that it’s…

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Senate Approves Bill Banning TikTok From US Government Devices

The bill still needs to receive approval from the US House of Representatives

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S3 Ep113: Pwning the Windows kernel – the crooks who hoodwinked Microsoft [Audio + Text]

Return o’ the rookit, super-sneaky wireless spyware, credit card skimming, and patches galore. Listen and learn!

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NSA, CISA Warn Against Threats to 5G Network Slicing

Improper network slice management may enable attackers to access data from different network slices

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Operation Power Off: 50 DDoS-services taken offline in international crackdown

Law enforcement agencies in the United States, UK, Netherlands, Poland, and Germany have brought down the most popular DDoS-for-hire…

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Smashing Security podcast #302: Lensa AI, and a dog called Bob

Drug dealers come unstuck while using the Encrochat encrypted-messaging app, and we put the Lensa AI’s avatar-generation tool under the…

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A Security Vulnerability in the KmsdBot Botnet

Security researchers found a software bug in the KmsdBot cryptomining botnet: With no error-checking built in, sending KmsdBot a malformed…

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Dark Data: What is it? How can you best utilize it?

The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or…

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Feds Hit DDoS-for-Hire Services with 48 Domain Seizures

Six also charged in connection with booter services

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Platforms Flooded with 144,000 Phishing Packages

NuGet, PyPi and npm inundated with malicious packages

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Hacking Using SVG Files to Smuggle QBot Malware onto Windows Systems

Phishing campaigns involving the Qakbot malware are using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images embedded in HTML email attachments.

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FBI Charges 6, Seizes 48 Domains Linked to DDoS-for-Hire Service Platforms

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of 48 domains that offered services to conduct distributed…

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Reimagining Democracy

Last week, I hosted a two-day workshop on reimagining democracy. The idea was to bring together people from a variety of disciplines who…

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Six Charged in Mass Takedown of DDoS-for-Hire Sites

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it…

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Cuba ransomware group used Microsoft developer accounts to sign malicious drivers

Microsoft suspended several accounts on its hardware developer program that signed malicious drivers used by a ransomware group called Cuba…

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