Detecting Windows-based Malware Through Better Visibility

Despite a plethora of available security solutions, more and more organizations fall victim to Ransomware and other threats. These continued threats aren’t just an inconvenience that hurt businesses and end users – they damage the economy, endanger lives, destroy businesses and put national security at risk. But if that wasn’t enough – North Korea appears to be using revenue from cyber

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Activision Recommends Users Enable 2FA to Secure Accounts Recently Stolen by Malware

An infostealer malware campaign has apparently collected millions of logins from users of various gaming websites, including players that use cheats and pay-to-cheat services.

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British Nuclear Site Sellafield to be Prosecuted for Cybersecurity Failures

The UK’s independent nuclear safety regulator has announced that it will be prosecuting the company managing the Sellafield nuclear site over “alleged information technology security offenses during a four year period between 2019 and early 2023.”

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Malicious Apps Caught Secretly Turning Android Phones into Proxies for Cybercriminals

Several malicious Android apps that turn mobile devices running the operating system into residential proxies (RESIPs) for other threat actors have been observed on the Google Play Store.
The findings come from HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence team, which said the cluster of VPN apps came fitted with a Golang library that transformed the user’s device into a proxy node without their knowledge.

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Israeli LGBTQ Dating App Atraf Faces Data Leak, 700,000 Users Affected

Atraf, a popular Israeli LGBTQ dating app, has suffered a major data breach exposing the personal information of over half a million users. Leaked data includes cleartext passwords and payment card data.

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Report: 17 Billion Personal Records Exposed in Data Breaches in 2023

Reported data breach incidents rose by 34.5% in 2023, with over 17 billion personal records compromised throughout the year, according to Flashpoint’s 2024 Global Threat Intelligence Report.

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KuCoin Charged with AML Violations That Let Cybercriminals Launder Billions

In an indictment, the Department of Justice claimed that KuCoin knowingly allowed U.S.-based users to trade on its platform while fulfilling none of its AML obligations, as defined by U.S. laws and regulations.

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Pentagon Lays Out Strategy to Improve Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity

The strategy, which covers fiscal years 2024 through 2027, lays out four topline goals, such as improving best practices within the industrial base. Each goal contains a subset of objectives, such as being able to recover from a cyberattack.

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NIST Unveils New Consortium to Operate the NVD

It’s now official: the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hand over some aspects of the management of the world’s most widely used software vulnerability repository to an industry consortium.

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Researchers Dissect Infostealer Malware Targeting macOS Users

The ongoing infostealer attacks targeting macOS users may have adopted different methods to compromise victims’ Macs, but operate with the end goal of stealing sensitive data, Jamf Threat Labs said in a report published Friday.

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