Mote below k: Not only malvertising, but also “verified by Google.”

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QR codes are quickly becoming a favorite tool of bad actors looking to launch phishing attacks, with one cybersecurity vendor saying the strategy appeared in 22% of phishing campaigns it detected in the first weeks of October. The numbers collected by Hoxhunt feed into the growing amount of data detailing the rise of such QR-based..

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The Environmental Protection Agency in March ordered states to begin assessing the cybersecurity of their public water systems, a part of the Biden Administration’s multi-pronged effort to shore up the protections around the country’s critical infrastructure operations. Seven months later, the agency is withdrawing the order in the wake of a legal challenge filed by..

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Keeping us in suspense—It doesn’t get worse than this: CVE-2023-20198 is CVSS=10.

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A hacker group that continues to extend its reach from financially motivated attacks into cyber-espionage this summer targeted attendees of a gender equality conference with a pared-down version of the RomCom remote access trojan (RAT). Void Rabisu – also known as Tropical Scorpius, Storm-0978, and UNC2596 – in August leveraged the fourth version of the..

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Straya strikes back: Musk’s mob declines to answer questions, breaking law dunundah.

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As Microsoft aggressively integrates AI into its broad portfolio of products and services, the IT giant now is looking for help to ensure they are free of vulnerabilities. The company this month unveiled a new bug bounty program that will pay between $2,000 and $15,000 for flaws found in its AI-powered Bing offerings, including its..

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The National Security Agency released a code repository in GitHub to make it easier for critical infrastructure organizations and similar entities to better identify and detect potentially malicious activities in their operational technology (OT) environments. The agency announced this week that it released the repository for OT Intrusion Detection Signatures and Analytics to the NSA..

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This is why we can’t have nice things: 38 victims of Apple’s “negligence” named in amended class action.

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Email security firm Cofense in 2022 uncovered a phishing campaign that abused LinkedIn’s Smart Links feature to redirect unsuspecting victims to malicious websites, another example of bad actors using a trusted source to bypass security measures and reach users. At the time, hackers were using the phishing campaign to convince users that the Slovakian Postal..

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