IBM X-Force Report: Grandoreiro Malware Targets More Than 1,500 Banks in 60 Countries

Find out how Grandoreiro banking trojan campaigns work and the countries targeted, as well as how to mitigate this malware threat.

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CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Apache Flink Security Vulnerability

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a security flaw impacting Apache Flink, the open-source, unified stream-processing and batch-processing framework, to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.
Tracked as CVE-2020-17519, the issue relates to a case of improper access control that

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WhatsApp Engineers Fear Encryption Flaw Exposes User Data, Memo

By Deeba Ahmed

Is your WhatsApp privacy a myth? New reports reveal a vulnerability that could expose who you message to government agents.

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He Trained Cops to Fight Crypto Crime—and Allegedly Ran a $100M Dark-Web Drug Market

The strange journey of Lin Rui-siang, the 23-year-old accused of running the Incognito black market, extorting his own site’s users—and then refashioning himself as a legit crypto crime expert.

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US Intelligence Agencies’ Embrace of Generative AI Is at Once Wary and Urgent

U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, believing they’ll be smothered by exponential data growth as sensor-generated surveillance tech further blankets the planet.

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Ransomware Attacks Exploit VMware ESXi Vulnerabilities in Alarming Pattern

Ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi infrastructure following an established pattern regardless of the file-encrypting malware deployed.
“Virtualization platforms are a core component of organizational IT infrastructure, yet they often suffer from inherent misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, making them a lucrative and highly effective target for threat actors to abuse,”

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New Bitcoin Token Protocol “Runes” Carries Potential Phishing Risk

By Owais Sultan

Is the innovative Runes protocol on Bitcoin a cybersecurity concern waiting to happen? Cybersecurity experts at Resonance Security…

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Cybercriminals are Targeting Elections in India With Influence Campaigns

Around 16 different independent hacktivist groups are targeting Indian elections, including Anon Black Flag Indonesia, Anonymous Bangladesh, and Morocco Black Cyber Army, among others.

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A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come

Thousands of fingerprints and facial images linked to police in India have been exposed online. Researchers say it’s a warning of what will happen as the collection of biometric data increases.

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New Frontiers, Old Tactics: Chinese Espionage Group Targets Africa & Caribbean Govts

The China-linked threat actor known as Sharp Panda has expanded their targeting to include governmental organizations in Africa and the Caribbean as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign.
“The campaign adopts Cobalt Strike Beacon as the payload, enabling backdoor functionalities like C2 communication and command execution while minimizing the exposure of their custom tools,” Check Point

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