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A Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea’s Internet. Now He’s Taking Off His Mask

By Andy Greenberg — April 4th 2024 at 09:00
As “P4x,” Alejandro Caceres single-handedly disrupted the internet of an entire country. Then he tried to show the US military how it can—and should—adopt his methods.
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The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind

By Andy Greenberg, Matt Burgess — April 3rd 2024 at 13:54
The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers were behind the persona that inserted the malicious code.
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The XZ Backdoor: Everything You Need to Know

By Dan Goodin, Ars Technica — April 2nd 2024 at 08:00
Details are starting to emerge about a stunning supply chain attack that sent the open source software community reeling.
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You Should Update Apple iOS and Google Chrome ASAP

By Kate O'Flaherty — March 31st 2024 at 10:00
Plus: Microsoft patches over 60 vulnerabilities, Mozilla fixes two Firefox zero-day bugs, Google patches 40 issues in Android, and more.
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Yogurt Heist Reveals a Rampant Form of Online Fraud

By Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts — March 30th 2024 at 13:00
Plus: “MFA bombing” attacks target Apple users, Israel deploys face recognition tech on Gazans, AI gets trained to spot tent encampments, and OSINT investigators find fugitive Amond Bundy.
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‘Malicious Activity’ Hits the University of Cambridge’s Medical School

By Matt Burgess — March 27th 2024 at 16:36
Multiple university departments linked to the Clinical School Computing Service have been inaccessible for a month. The university has not revealed the nature of the “malicious activity.”
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Chinese Hackers Charged in Decade-Long Global Spying Rampage

By Matt Burgess — March 25th 2024 at 18:22
US and UK officials hit Chinese hacking group APT31 with sanctions and criminal charges after they targeted thousands of businesses, politicians, and critics of China.
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Apple Chip Flaw Leaks Secret Encryption Keys

By Andrew Couts — March 23rd 2024 at 10:00
Plus: The Biden administration warns of nationwide attacks on US water systems, a new Russian wiper malware emerges, and China-linked hackers wage a global attack spree.
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Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds

By Andy Greenberg — March 21st 2024 at 14:00
The company behind the Saflok-brand door locks is offering a fix, but it may take months or years to reach some hotels.
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Cisco and Nvidia: Redefining Workload Security

By Jana Radhakrishnan — March 20th 2024 at 12:00

There has been an exponential increase in breaches within enterprises despite the carefully constructed and controlled perimeters that exist around applications and data. Once an attacker can access… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Automakers Are Telling Your Insurance Company How You Really Drive

By Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts — March 16th 2024 at 13:00
Plus: The operator of a dark-web cryptocurrency “mixing” service is found guilty, and a US senator reveals that popular safes contain secret backdoors.
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Russian Hackers Stole Microsoft Source Code—and the Attack Isn’t Over

By Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts — March 9th 2024 at 14:00
Plus: An ex-Google engineer gets arrested for allegedly stealing trade secrets, hackers breach the top US cybersecurity agency, and X’s new feature exposes sensitive user data.
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Meta Abandons Hacking Victims, Draining Law Enforcement Resources, Officials Say

By Dell Cameron — March 6th 2024 at 15:38
A coalition of 41 state attorneys general says Meta is failing to assist Facebook and Instagram users whose accounts have been hacked—and they want the company to take “immediate action.”
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Mitigating Lateral Movement with Zero Trust Access

By Andrew Akers — March 5th 2024 at 13:00

Security service edge (SSE) technology was created to protect remote and branch users with a unified, cloud-delivered security stack. To understand how SSE solutions protect organizations and their… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Hackers Behind the Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack Just Received a $22 Million Payment

By Andy Greenberg — March 4th 2024 at 17:41
The transaction, visible on Bitcoin's blockchain, suggests the victim of one of the worst ransomware attacks in years may have paid a very large ransom.
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The Privacy Danger Lurking in Push Notifications

By Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts, Matt Burgess — March 2nd 2024 at 14:00
Plus: Apple warns about sideloading apps, a court orders NSO group to turn over the code of its Pegasus spyware, and an investigation finds widely available security cams are wildly insecure.
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Here Come the AI Worms

By Matt Burgess — March 1st 2024 at 09:00
Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way.
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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Trump Trial Ransomware Leak

By Andy Greenberg — February 29th 2024 at 18:24
The notorious LockBit gang promised a Georgia court leak "that could affect the upcoming US election.” It didn't materialize—but the story may not be over yet.
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Here Are the Google and Microsoft Security Updates You Need Right Now

By Kate O'Flaherty — February 29th 2024 at 16:30
Plus: Mozilla patches 12 flaws in Firefox, Zoom fixes seven vulnerabilities, and more critical updates from February.
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Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack: BlackCat Hackers Quickly Returned After FBI Bust

By Andy Greenberg — February 27th 2024 at 22:35
Two months ago, the FBI “disrupted” the BlackCat ransomware group. They're already back—and their latest attack is causing delays at pharmacies across the US.
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How a Right-Wing Controversy Could Sabotage US Election Security

By Eric Geller — February 26th 2024 at 13:00
Republicans who run elections are split over whether to keep working with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to fight hackers, online falsehoods, and polling-place threats.
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Network Resilience: Accelerating Efforts to Protect Critical Infrastructure

By Matt Fussa — February 21st 2024 at 16:48

As head of the Cisco Trust Office, Matt Fussa leads a global team that partners with government agencies, regulators, and customers to help shape cybersecurity regulation and manage cyber risk. He is… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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NIS2 compliance for industrial networks: Are you ready?

By Fabien Maisl — February 16th 2024 at 17:47

Since the European Union (EU) signed the second version of the Network and Information Security (NIS2) Directive in December 2022, there has been a real frenzy all around Europe about it. NIS2 is now… Read more on Cisco Blogs

NIS2 compliance for industrial networks: Are you ready?

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