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FBI Says it is Investigating Purported Trump Campaign Hack
/in General NewsThe FBI is investigating a suspected hack of the Trump campaign, following accusations of Iranian involvement. The Trump campaign blames foreign sources and cited a Microsoft report linking Iranian hackers to covert efforts to influence the election.
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CryptoCore: Unmasking the Sophisticated Cryptocurrency Scam Operations
/in General NewsThe CryptoCore group’s scam operation leverages deepfake technology, hijacked YouTube accounts, and professionally designed websites to trick users into sending cryptocurrencies to scammer wallets.
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AutoCanada Hit by Cyberattack
/in General NewsAutoCanada has disclosed a disruptive cybersecurity incident after also being impacted by the recent CDK Global ransomware attack.
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Was your Social Security number leaked to the dark web? Here’s how to know and what to do
/in General NewsA recent breach involving nearly 3 billion personal records included many SSNs. Was yours one of them? Here’s how to find out and what to do next.
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GitHub Makes Copilot Autofix Generally Available
/in General NewsGitHub has made AI-powered Copilot Autofix generally available to help developers fix code vulnerabilities faster.
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Mayor of Columbus, Ohio, Says Ransomware Attackers Stole Corrupted, Unusable Data
/in General NewsHackers recently stole data from Ohio’s largest city, but what they got was not usable and no personal information about city workers was made available online, the mayor said.
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GitHub Vulnerability ‘ArtiPACKED’ Exposes Repositories to Potential Takeover
/in General NewsA newly discovered attack vector in GitHub Actions artifacts dubbed ArtiPACKED could be exploited to take over repositories and gain access to organizations’ cloud environments.
“A combination of misconfigurations and security flaws can make artifacts leak tokens, both of third party cloud services and GitHub tokens, making them available for anyone with read access to the repository to consume,
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New Cyber Threat Targets Azerbaijan and Israel Diplomats, Stealing Sensitive Data
/in General NewsA previously unknown threat actor has been attributed to a spate of attacks targeting Azerbaijan and Israel with an aim to steal sensitive data.
The attack campaign, detected by NSFOCUS on July 1, 2024, leveraged spear-phishing emails to single out Azerbaijani and Israeli diplomats. The activity is being tracked under the moniker Actor240524.
“Actor240524 possesses the ability to steal secrets
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New Gafgyt Botnet Variant Targets Weak SSH Passwords for GPU Crypto Mining
/in General NewsCybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet that’s targeting machines with weak SSH passwords to ultimately mine cryptocurrency on compromised instances using their GPU computational power.
This indicates that the “IoT botnet is targeting more robust servers running on cloud native environments,” Aqua Security researcher Assaf Morag said in a Wednesday analysis.
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Cisco Cuts Thousands of Jobs, 7% of Workforce, As It Shifts Focus to AI, Cybersecurity
/in General NewsCisco had 84,900 employees as of July 2023. Based on that figure, the number of jobs cut would be about 5,900.
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