Cops Swarm Global Cybercrime Botnet Infrastructure in 2 Massive Ops
Europol undertook dropper malware botnet takedown while US law enforcement dismantled a sprawling cybercrime botnet for hire.
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Flawed AI Tools Create Worries for Private LLMs, Chatbots
Companies are looking to large language models to help their employees glean information from unstructured data, but vulnerabilities could lead to disinformation and, potentially, data leaks.
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CISA Alerts Federal Agencies to Patch Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a security flaw impacting the Linux kernel to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.
Tracked as CVE-2024-1086 (CVSS score: 7.8), the high-severity issue relates to a use-after-free bug in the netfilter component that permits a local attacker to elevate privileges
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Ecuador Is Literally Powerless in the Face of Drought
Drought-stricken hydro dams have led to daily electricity cuts in Ecuador. As weather becomes less predictable die to climate change, experts say other countries need to take notice.
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ShinyHunters Claims Santander Bank Breach: 30M Customers’ Data for Sale
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ShinyHunters’ claims surfaced two weeks after Santander Bank acknowledged a data breach linked to a third-party contractor involving…
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Do you need an anti-spy camera finder and bug detector? How they work
Social media is awash with ads for gadgets to detect hidden cameras and bugs that might be in your home, hotel room, or Airbnb. Are they actually useful?
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FlyingYeti Exploits WinRAR Vulnerability to Deliver COOKBOX Malware in Ukraine
Cloudflare on Thursday said it took steps to disrupt a month-long phishing campaign orchestrated by a Russia-aligned threat actor called FlyingYeti targeting Ukraine.
“The FlyingYeti campaign capitalized on anxiety over the potential loss of access to housing and utilities by enticing targets to open malicious files via debt-themed lures,” Cloudflare’s threat intelligence team Cloudforce One
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Cloudflare Expands Zero Trust Capabilities with Acquisition of BastionZero
Cloudlfare acquires Boston seed-stage startup BastionZero to bolster its Zero Trust Network Access technology portfolio.
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4 Arrested as Operation Endgame Disrupts Ransomware Botnets
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Europol led Operation Endgame, the largest operation against botnets to date, focused on dismantling the infrastructure of malicious…
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Cyber Espionage Alert: LilacSquid Targets IT, Energy, and Pharma Sectors
A previously undocumented cyber espionage-focused threat actor named LilacSquid has been linked to targeted attacks spanning various sectors in the United States (U.S.), Europe, and Asia as part of a data theft campaign since at least 2021.
“The campaign is geared toward establishing long-term access to compromised victim organizations to enable LilacSquid to siphon data of interest to
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