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US Sues TikTok Over Child Safety and Data Security Claims

The Indiana court said TikTok promoted age-restricted content regardless of a user’s age

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Researchers Uncover Darknet Service Allowing Hackers to Trojonize Legit Android Apps

Researchers have shed light on a new hybrid malware campaign targeting both Android and Windows operating systems in a bid to expand its…

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Apple Introduces New Data Protections to Increase Cloud Security

The new features will be globally available in 2023, but one of them already is for some US users

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Metaparasites: The cybercriminals who rip each other off

Researchers at Sophos have investigated so-called “metaparasites” – the scammers who scam other scammers.

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#BHEU: Time for Cyber Pros to Shape the Industry’s Future

Jen Ellis urges the cyber industry to take a leading role in shaping its future, during Black Hat Europe 2022

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Explorations in the spam folder–Holiday Edition

Watch ThreatWise TV: Explorations in the spam folder The spam folder: that dark and disregarded corner of every email account, full of…

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Leaked Signing Keys Are Being Used to Sign Malware

A bunch of Android OEM signing keys have been leaked or stolen, and they are actively being used to sign malware.

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What is YTQ?

What is CRQC? Widespread interest in quantum computing continues to expand as computer innovators, scientists, and technology industry…

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Pet Dog Unmasks Drug Trafficker on Encrypted Chat

Police studied photos sent via EncroChat to reveal users

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Apple finally adds encryption to iCloud backups

Apple has rolled out a number of security features that will now offer end-to-end encryption to protect data, including backups, contacts,…

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Iranian Hackers Strike Diamond Industry with Data-Wiping Malware in Supply-Chain Attack

An Iranian advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Agrius has been attributed as behind a set of data wiper attacks aimed at…

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Google Warns of Internet Explorer Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited by ScarCruft Hackers

An Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability was actively exploited by a North Korean threat actor to target South Korean users by…

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Microsoft Warns Cryptocurrency Firms Against Complex Cyber-Attacks

Attacks included fraud, vulnerability exploitation, fake applications and info stealer deployments

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NZ Privacy Commissioner Investigates Mercury IT Ransomware Attack

The watchdog also confirmed it plans on opening a compliance investigation into the incident

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Vice Society Ransomware Attackers Targeted Dozens of Schools in 2022

The Vice Society cybercrime group has disproportionately targeted educational institutions, accounting for 33 victims in 2022 and…

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FFT and Ransomware Represent Over Half of Cyber Insurance Claims in 2022

While average ransomware claims are much higher, the report warned that vectors like BEC could deliver “death by a thousand cuts”

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The Decoupling Principle

This is a really interesting paper that discusses what the authors call the Decoupling Principle: The idea is simple, yet previously not…

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UK Government Department Using Unsupported Applications, Reveals Watchdog

Almost a third (30%) of applications used by Defra are unsupported, a report from the National Audit Office has revealed

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Russia’s VTB Bank Suffers its Biggest Ever DDoS

Ukraine suspected of attack on state-owned lender

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Cracking the Code to Security Resilience: Lessons from the Latest Cisco Security Outcomes Report

“There’s so much left to know, and I’m on the road to find out.” –Cat Stevens (Yusuf) Two years ago, we asked the question: What actually…

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Ransomware attack knocks Rackspace’s Exchange servers offline

Rackspace’s hosting for Exchange servers remained offline Tuesday after an outage Friday that the company now ascribes to a ransomware…

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New Go-based Zerobot Botnet Exploiting Dozen of IoT Vulnerabilities to Expand its Network

A novel Go-based botnet called Zerobot has been observed in the wild proliferating by taking advantage of nearly two dozen security…

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China-Based Hackers Target Amnesty International Canada

Results suggest the attack was executed using tools and techniques associated with Chinese APTs.

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Swiss Government Wants to Implement Mandatory Duty to Report Cyber-Attacks

The move would shed light on hackers and sound the alarm more widely on cyber-threats in the country.

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