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North Korean Hackers Spread Malware via Fake Crypto Firms and Job Interview Lures
/in General NewsNorth Korea-linked threat actors behind the Contagious Interview have set up front companies as a way to distribute malware during the fake hiring process.
“In this new campaign, the threat actor group is using three front companies in the cryptocurrency consulting industry—BlockNovas LLC (blocknovas[.] com), Angeloper Agency (angeloper[.]com), and SoftGlide LLC (softglide[.]co)—to spread
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Marks & Spencer pauses online shopping following cyberattack
/in General NewsThe massive British retailer is still struggling to recover from the cyberattack, which it first acknowledged on Tuesday.
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Lattica Emerges From Stealth With FHE Platform for AI
/in General NewsLattica has raised $3.25 million in pre-seed funding for a platform that uses FHE to enable AI models to process encrypted data.
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Former Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables Joins Ballistic Ventures
/in General NewsVenables has served as CISO and security executive across several large organizations, including Google Cloud, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank.
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How Organizations Can Leverage Cyber Insurance Effectively
/in General NewsBy focusing on prevention, education, and risk transfer through insurance, organizations — especially SMEs — can protect themselves from the rapidly escalating threats of cyberattacks.
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Vehicles Face 45% More Attacks, 4 Times More Hackers
/in General NewsTwo kinds of attacks are in high gear: ransomware attacks against OEMs and compromised electric vehicle chargers, according to data from Q1 2025.
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Inside the Verizon 2025 DBIR: Five Trends That Signal a Shift in the Cyber Threat Economy
/in General NewsWith over 12,000 breaches analyzed, this year’s DBIR reveals a landscape shaped by not just individual threats, but by entire economies of compromise.
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Data breach at Connecticut’s Yale New Haven Health affects over 5 million
/in General NewsYale New Haven Health is Connecticut’s largest healthcare provider.
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South Korean Companies Targeted by Lazarus via Watering Hole Attacks, Zero-Days
/in General NewsMultiple South Korean organizations across industries have been targeted in a recent Lazarus campaign dubbed Operation SyncHole.
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In Other News: Prison for Disney Hacker, MITRE ATT&CK v17, Massive DDoS Botnet
/in General NewsNoteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: former Disney employee sent to prison for hacking, MITRE releases ATT&CK v17, DDoS botnet powered by 1.3 million devices.
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