QBot Trojan operators are using new tactics to hijack legitimate, emailed conversations to steal credentials and financial data.  Researchers at Check Point warn that Microsoft Outlook users are susceptible to a module designed to collect and…

Concerns surrounding misinformation continue to grow among cybersecurity professionals as the amount of online misinformation and fake domains rise. A new report by the Neustar International Security Council (NISC) reveals that nearly half of…

A Dutch researcher discovered nine separate files of highly sensitive personal health information (PHI) from apps such as Office 365 and Google G Suite from nine different health organizations on GitHub.  The nine files included 200,000 patient…

Researchers at Snyk, a developer security company, claim to have discovered malicious code in different iOS versions of an advertising Software Development Kit (SDK) developed by Mintegral, a China-based mobile advertising platform provider with offices…

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev developed a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) technique to improve the protection of medical devices against unusual or anomalous instructions, as well as human and system errors. If medical devices such…

U.S. Army researchers developed a method to protect networks by detecting adversarial activities that current analytical methods may miss. They developed an algorithm for higher-order network representation, called BuildHON+. The goal behind this…

New research has discovered that the Lazarus Group, a  North Korean-linked APT, has shifted its focus to targeting cryptocurrency and financial organizations. The security researchers discovered a phishing campaign that is targeting businesses…

Computer scientists at  Los Alamos National  Laboratory developed a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) system capable of identifying malicious code that hijacks supercomputers to perform cryptocurrency mining. Supercomputers are attractive…

SoS Musings #40 - The Need for Stronger Social Media Security

The University of Utah, which has 24,485 undergraduate students, 8,333 graduate students, and 1,592 faculty members, was hit by a cyberattack on July 19th. The adversaries used ransomware and targeted the university’s computing servers for its College of…

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