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"GhostRace Detailed - Speculative Race Conditions Affecting All Major CPUs / ISAs"VUSec, the Systems and Network Security Group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and IBM Research Europe have announced Speculative Race Conditions (SRCs) as a new class of vulnerabilities in which thread synchronization primitives using conditional bran
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"The Rise of Cyberattacks on Financial Institutions Highlights the Need to Build a Security Culture"Callie Guenther of Critical Start highlights that recent attacks on large financial institutions such as Bank of America call for companies to develop a security culture.
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"Investment Scams Grow, 13,000 Domains Detected in January 2024"According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), experts have detected and blocked nearly 13,000 fake investment platform domains across more than 7000 IPs in January 2024, a 25% increase from December 2023.
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"DARPA Picks 7 Small Businesses for AI Cyber Challenge"As part of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Cyber Challenge, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded seven companies $1 million each to develop a cyber reasoning system.
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"Canada Jails LockBit Affiliate for Four Years"Mikhail Vasiliev, a Russian-Canadian national and LockBit ransomware affiliate, has been sentenced to years in prison after pleading guilty to cyber extortion.
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"Stanford University Data Breach Impacts 27,000 Individuals"Stanford University recently notified 27,000 individuals that their personal information was stolen in a ransomware attack on its Department of Public Safety (DPS).
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"Critical ChatGPT Plug-in Vulnerabilities Expose Sensitive Data"Salt Labs researchers discovered three security vulnerabilities in ChatGPT extension functions that could enable unauthorized, zero-click access to users' accounts and services.
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"Over 12 Million Auth Secrets and Keys Leaked on GitHub in 2023"According to cybersecurity researchers at GitGuardian, GitHub users accidentally exposed 12.8 million authentication and sensitive secrets in more than 3 million public repositories in 2023, with most still valid after five days.
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"US Seizes $1.4 Million in Cryptocurrency From Tech Scammers"US law enforcement recently seized $1.4 million worth of Tether (USDT) tokens believed to have been fraudulently obtained through tech support scams.
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"ICS Researchers Awarded Best Technical Poster at NDSS"According to Alfred Chen, an assistant professor at UC Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS), the cyber-physical nature of Indoor Delivery Robot (IDR) systems can result in significant security and safety damages
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"Phishing Campaign Leverages AWS and GitHub to Launch RATs"In a new phishing campaign, malicious actors store malware on public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and GitHub. Then they use email to launch an attack and gain control of newly infected systems.
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"Image-Based Phishing Tactics Evolve"According to IRONSCALES and Osterman Research, 70 percent of organizations believe their current security stacks are effective against image-based and QR code phishing attacks. However, 76 percent were still compromised in the last 12 months.
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