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Weekly News Digest #54
Persistent backdoor for hackers created by malware, Microsoft has issued a warning Another piece of malware used by attackers behind the Solarwind attack was identified by Microsoft. Microsoft has called the group responsible for the attack – Nobelium. In April this year, the US and UK officially blamed the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service hacking unit
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Weekly News Digest #53
Governments and engineers are targeted worldwide by the new advanced hacker group The hacker group was targeting these entities for espionage purposes. The team of researchers representing the company ESET dubbed the malicious group FamousSparrow. According to the researchers, the group is a new player in the espionage space. The advanced persistent threat group has
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Weekly News Digest #52
Top 10 Vulnerability Ranking by OWASP: first updated since 2017 The new list of vulnerabilities released by the non-profit foundation Open Web Application Security Project features fundamental changes. For example, Broken Access Control is now holding â„–1 position in the new ranking. The second place in this ranking is held by cryptographic failures since this
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Weekly News Digest #51
Third-party security breach: customer data of my MyRepublic were compromised According to the data provided by MyRepublic, the data belonging to 80,000 of its subscribers were compromised as the result of the breach affecting a third-party data storage platform. The affected system contained such data as subscribers’ national identity cards’ scanned copies and foreign residents’
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Virtual Assets are Now Legalized in Ukraine!
In 2021, the global community is actively discussing the legalization of virtual assets such as cryptocurrencies. On 7 September 2021, Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency in the world, as legal tender. Now the citizens of this country can use this crypto to pay for any
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Weekly News Digest #50
Insider cybersecurity threats: 1 out of 2 companies fails to spot the following signs Most companies without regard to the field in which they operate fail to detect early indicators of insider cyberattacks. Namely, according to the information collected by the cybersecurity company DTEX Systems and the think tank Ponemon Institute, more than 50% of
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Weekly News Digest #49
Ransomware attacks targeting smart cities: actions are required right now! The power of ransomware attacks always increases. There is a risk that this type of cybercrimes may take out even the infrastructure of 5G enabled smart cities. Cybercriminals often choose government services as their primary targets. Government networks enable the provision of crucial services to
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Weekly News Digest #48
Clueless criminals commit amateur ransomware attacks to get in on the action Successful ransomware attacks may allow malicious actors to earn even a few million USD in digital assets. As a result, ransomware groups are attracting the attention of both qualified malicious actors and amateurs who are interested in making easy money. Even low-level cybercriminals
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Weekly News Digest #47
$610 million stolen by Poly Network Hackers: what about Bitcoin security? Poly Network is the entity specializing in cryptocurrency transfers on Ethereum, Binance, and Polygon blockchains. The company was attacked and assets were transferred to hackers. The list of affected blockchain and crypto exchanges includes such famous brands as OKEx, HuobiGlobal, Uniswap, Binance, Tether, BitGo,
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Weekly News Digest #46
The rise in stalkerware goes beyond smartphones Researchers are warning that IoT products and mobile devices are actively abused to facilitate partner coercion. According to the information provided by cybersecurity experts during the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas this week, the rapid increase in the frequency of use of stalkerware in gender-based violence
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Weekly News Digest #45
COVID-19 pandemic: data breach costs experienced by enterprises have reached a record high According to the estimates provided by IBM, the average cost of a data breach now amounts to over $4 million and the dramatic increase compared to previous estimates is attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, compared to 2020, this figure has
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Weekly News Digest #44
Amazon S3 buckets misconfiguration left 1,000 GB of local government data exposed The team of cybersecurity researchers from security company Wizcase identified that 1,000 GB of data and over 1.6 million files belonging to dozens of US municipalities were left exposed. All of the cities and towns that became the victims of this incident were
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