Iranian APTs Dress Up As Hacktivists for Disruption, Influence Ops

Iran has taken a page from the Russian playbook: Passing off military groups as civilians for the sake of PR and plausible deniability.

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Ransomware Declines as InfoStealers and AI Threats Gain Ground: IBM X-Force

The ransomware threat is declining as actors pivot to infostealing, according to IBM, which says that attacks on cloud services and critical infrastructures are growing.

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Google’s Cloud Run Service Spreads Several Bank Trojans

A surging bank malware campaign abuses Google Cloud Run and targets Latin America, with indications that it’s hitting other regions as well, researchers warn.

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Wyze Cameras Allow Accidental User Spying

About 13,000 users received camera images and feeds that weren’t theirs. This cyber incident takes place only five months after the company experienced a similar issue and failed to be transparent with users about the issues it was facing.

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Meta Disrupts 8 Spyware Firms, 3 Fake News Networks

While furiously trying to put out one fire — fake news — the social media giant is dealing with another growing threat: spies for hire.

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Joomla XSS Bugs Open Millions of Websites to RCE

Improper content filtering in a core function allows multiple paths to exploitation for CVE-2024-21726.

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Early adopters’ fast-tracking gen AI into production, according to new report

Healthcare, manufacturing and education industries see the greatest potential for gen AI and lead all others in their interest to become early adopters.Read More

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New Wave of ‘Anatsa’ Banking Trojans Targets Android Users in Europe

Users have already downloaded droppers for the malware from Google’s official Play store more than 100,000 times since last November.

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Authentic or counterfeit? How QED Vault is using tokens to redefine asset ownership

One man’s quest to authenticate rare sneakers led to the first consumer blockchain-based tokenization platform.

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LockBit Ransomware Gang’s Website Shut Down by FBI and International Law Enforcement

The enforcement action is a major blow against the ransomware-as-a-service provider, which has been connected to 2,000 victims globally.

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