A recent breach involving nearly 3 billion personal records included many SSNs. Was yours one of them? Here’s how to find out and what to do next.
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GitHub has made AI-powered Copilot Autofix generally available to help developers fix code vulnerabilities faster.
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Hackers recently stole data from Ohio’s largest city, but what they got was not usable and no personal information about city workers was made available online, the mayor said.
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A newly discovered attack vector in GitHub Actions artifacts dubbed ArtiPACKED could be exploited to take over repositories and gain access to organizations’ cloud environments.
“A combination of misconfigurations and security flaws can make artifacts leak tokens, both of third party cloud services and GitHub tokens, making them available for anyone with read access to the repository to consume,
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A previously unknown threat actor has been attributed to a spate of attacks targeting Azerbaijan and Israel with an aim to steal sensitive data.
The attack campaign, detected by NSFOCUS on July 1, 2024, leveraged spear-phishing emails to single out Azerbaijani and Israeli diplomats. The activity is being tracked under the moniker Actor240524.
“Actor240524 possesses the ability to steal secrets
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet that’s targeting machines with weak SSH passwords to ultimately mine cryptocurrency on compromised instances using their GPU computational power.
This indicates that the “IoT botnet is targeting more robust servers running on cloud native environments,” Aqua Security researcher Assaf Morag said in a Wednesday analysis.
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Cisco had 84,900 employees as of July 2023. Based on that figure, the number of jobs cut would be about 5,900.
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Brain Cipher made a loud entry to the ransomware scene, but it doesn’t seem to be quite as sophisticated as its accomplishment would suggest.
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APT42, which is believed to work for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, targeted about a dozen people associated with both Trump’s and Biden’s campaigns this spring, according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group.
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