Google Ad for Facebook Redirects to Scam

Researchers observed a malicious ad campaign targeting Facebook users via Google search. The ad, which appears at the top of Google search results for the keyword “Facebook,” redirects users to a scam page.

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North Korea APT Triumvirate Spied on South Korean Defense Industry For Years

Lazarus, Kimsuky, and Andariel all got in on the action, stealing “important” data from firms responsible for defending their southern neighbors (from them).

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KnowBe4 Plans to Acquire Egress for Email Security Tech

KnowBe4 boasts that the merger will create “the largest, advanced AI-driven cybersecurity platform for managing human risk.”

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Iran Dupes US Military Contractors, Gov’t Agencies in Cyber Campaign

An Iranian state-sponsored hacking group successfully infiltrated hundreds of thousands of employee accounts at US companies and government agencies, including the US Treasury and State Department, as part of a five-year cyber espionage campaign.

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Google yet again delays killing third-party cookies in Chrome. Here’s what you need to know

Google now hopes to start phasing out third-party cookies in early 2025, instead of late 2024 as previously planned.

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‘ArcaneDoor’ Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls to Access Government Networks

Sources suspect China is behind the targeted exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco’s security appliances.

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North Korean Hackers Hijack Antivirus Updates for Malware Delivery

A North Korea-linked threat actor hijacked the update mechanism of eScan antivirus to deploy backdoors and cryptocurrency miners.

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Iran Dupes US Military Contractors, Gov’t Agencies in Years-Long Cyber Campaign

A state-sponsored hacking team employed a clever masquerade and elaborate back-end infrastructure as part of a five-year info-stealing campaign that compromised the US State and Treasury Departments, and hundreds of thousands of accounts overall.

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2023: A ‘Good’ Year for OT Cyberattacks

Attacks increased by “only” 19% last year. But that number is expected to grow significently.

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Navigating Vendor Speak: A Security Practitioner’s Guide to Seeing Through the Jargon

As a security industry, we need to focus our energies on those professionals among us who know how to walk the walk.

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