Black Basta Ransomware Hit Over 500 Organizations

The US government warns of Black Basta ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure organizations.

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SHQ Response Platform and Risk Centre to Enable Management and Analysts Alike

In the last decade, there has been a growing disconnect between front-line analysts and senior management in IT and Cybersecurity. Well-documented challenges facing modern analysts revolve around a high volume of alerts, false positives, poor visibility of technical environments, and analysts spending too much time on manual tasks.
The Impact of Alert Fatigue and False Positives 
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FBCS Collection Agency Data Breach Impacts 2.7 Million

Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) says the personal information of 2.7 million was impacted in the recent data breach.

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$2.5 Million Offered at Upcoming ‘Matrix Cup’ Chinese Hacking Contest 

The Chinese hacking contest Matrix Cup is offering big rewards for exploits targeting OSs, smartphones, enterprise software, browsers, and security products.

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AI-Powered Russian Network Pushes Fake Political News

Security researchers have discovered a major new Russian disinformation campaign using generative AI (GenAI) to “plagiarize and weaponize” content from major news organizations, in a bid to influence Western voters.

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FIN7 Uses Trusted Brands and Sponsored Google Ads to Distribute MSIX Payloads

The financially motivated group FIN7 has been observed leveraging malicious Google ads that impersonate legitimate brands to deliver NetSupport RAT, highlighting the ongoing threat of malvertising and the abuse of signed MSIX files by cybercriminals.

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Feds, Military Personnel Compete in President’s Cyber Cup Challenge

Artificially Intelligent — a team of four Army servicemembers and one from the Air Force — won the 2024 President’s Cyber Cup Challenge, a five-year-old competition open to federal government and U.S. military personnel.

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Selfie Spoofing Becomes Popular Identity Document Fraud Technique

Selfie spoofing and document image-of-image fraud have become the most prevalent identity document fraud techniques, with older demographics being targeted at nearly four times the rate, according to Socure.

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Malicious Go Binary Delivered via Steganography in PyPI

The malicious package, called “requests-darwin-lite”, was a fork of the popular “requests” Python package. The attacker used the cmdclass feature in the setup.py file to customize the package installation process.

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Welcome to the Laser Wars

Amid a rising tide of adversary drones and missile attacks, laser weapons are finally poised to enter the battlefield.

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