A threat actor has been compromising the hybrid cloud environments of US organizations in multiple sectors.
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UK national Robert Westbrook was charged in the US for executing a hack-to-trade scheme against five public companies.
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The malicious app, called WalletConnect, amassed over 10,000 downloads and stole around $70,000 in cryptocurrency from Android users before being removed from the Google Play Store.
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NIST is seeking public feedback on the draft guidelines, which can be submitted via email until October 7. The goal is to promote sensible password practices that enhance security without burdening users or compromising their online identity.
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A watering hole attack targeted Kurdish websites, distributing malicious APKs and spyware, compromising 25 sites for over a year. French cybersecurity firm Sekoia uncovered the campaign called SilentSelfie, delivering various info-stealers.
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The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million ($101.56 million) as part of a probe into a security lapse in March 2019, when the company disclosed that it had mistakenly stored users’ passwords in plaintext in its systems.
The investigation, launched by the DPC the next month, found that the social media giant violated four different articles under the European Union’s
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Gavin Newsom vetoed a landmark bill SB 1047 aimed at establishing first-in-the-nation safety measures for large artificial intelligence models.
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Plus: The US Justice Department indicts three Iranians over Trump campaign hack, EU regulators fine Meta $100 million for a password security lapse, and the Tor Project enters a new phase.
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Android app on the Google Play Store that enabled the threat actors behind it to steal approximately $70,000 in cryptocurrency from victims over a period of nearly five months.
The dodgy app, identified by Check Point, masqueraded as the legitimate WalletConnect open-source protocol to trick unsuspecting users into downloading it.
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HPE has released patches for three critical security vulnerabilities in Aruba’s networking access points, which could allow attackers to run code on the systems by sending specially crafted packets to UDP port 8211.
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