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From Security Week – Microsoft Blames Nation-State Threat Actor for Confluence Zero-Day Attacks

Microsoft says an APT group tracked as Storm-0062 has been hacking Confluence installations since mid-September, three weeks before Atlassian’s disclosure. The post Microsoft Blames Nation-State Threat Actor for Confluence Zero-Day…

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From Dark Reading – Securely Moving Financial Services to the Cloud

Financial services organizations migrating applications to the cloud need to think about cloud governance, applying appropriate policies and oversight, and compliance and regulatory requirements. Read More

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From Dark Reading – Badbox Operation Targets Android Devices in Fraud Schemes

Researchers believe that more than 70,000 Android devices may have been affected with preloaded Peachpit malware that was installed on the electronics before being sold at market. Read More

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From Dark Reading – New One-Click Exploit Is a Supply Chain Risk for Linux OSes

An overlooked library contains a vulnerability that could enable full remote takeover simply by clicking a link. Read More

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From Dark Reading – Hackers For Hire Hit Both Sides in Israel-Hamas Conflict

DDoS for hire and live attacks hit both sides as cyber campaigns continue. Read More

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From Dark Reading – How Keyloggers Have Evolved From the Cold War to Today

Keyloggers have been used for espionage since the days of the typewriter, but today's threats are easier to get and use than ever. Read More

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From Cyber Security News – New APT Group Using Custom Malware to Attack Manufacturing & IT Industries

An unidentified APT group deployed custom malware and public tools to target organizations in Taiwan’s following sectors:- This campaign also targeted a government agency in the Pacific Islands, along with…

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From Dark Reading – North Korea’s State-Sponsored APTs Organize & Align

An unprecedented collaboration by various APTs within the DPKR makes them harder to track, setting the stage for aggressive, complex cyberattacks that demand strategic response efforts, Mandiant warns. Read More

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From Cyber Security News – Hackers Exploiting Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability to Steal User Credentials

Threat actors were attacking unpatched NetScaler Gateways using the vulnerability classified as CVE-2023-3519 to inject malicious script into the HTML of the authentication web page and steal user credentials. With a…

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From Dark Reading – Old-School Attacks Are Still a Danger, Despite Newer Techniques

The cold, hard truth? Cybercriminals are still perpetuating plenty of unsophisticated attacks for a simple reason: They work. Read More

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From The Hacker News – Google Adopts Passkeys as Default Sign-in Method for All Users

Google on Tuesday announced the ability for all users to set up passkeys by default, five months after it rolled out support for the FIDO Alliance-backed passwordless standard for Google Accounts on all platforms. "This means the next time you sign in to your account, you'll start seeing prompts to create and use passkeys, simplifying your future sign-ins," Google's Sriram Karra and Christiaan

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From Cyber Security News – U.S. Army Sergeant Arrested for Spying Secrets to China: DoJ

In a shocking turn of events, a former U.S. Army Sergeant, Joseph Daniel Schmidt, has been arrested and indicted on charges of attempting to deliver national defense information and retaining…

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From Cyber Security News – ChatGPT, FraudGPT, and WormGPT Plays A Vital Role in Social Engineering Attacks

Generative AI models like ChatGPT, FraudGPT, and WormGPT bring innovation and new challenges in cybersecurity’s evolution. These generative AI models revolutionize cyberattacks, enabling personalized phishing, deepfakes, and cognitive bias exploitation,…

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From The Hacker News – New Report: Child Sexual Abuse Content and Online Risks to Children on the Rise

Certain online risks to children are on the rise, according to a recent report from Thorn, a technology nonprofit whose mission is to build technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Research shared in the Emerging Online Trends in Child Sexual Abuse 2023 report, indicates that minors are increasingly taking and sharing sexual images of themselves. This activity may occur consensually or

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From The Hacker News – Researchers Uncover Grayling APT’s Ongoing Attack Campaign Across Industries

A previously undocumented threat actor of unknown provenance has been linked to a number of attacks targeting organizations in the manufacturing, IT, and biomedical sectors in Taiwan. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, attributed the attacks to an advanced persistent threat (APT) it tracks under the name Grayling. Evidence shows that the campaign began in February 2023 and

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