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  • "Sophos: Retail Organizations Pay Significantly Less in Ransomware Attacks"

    New research conducted by Sophos reveals that retail companies affected by ransomware pay less than a third of the industry average when meeting ransom demands. Throughout 2021, the average payment made to a ransomware organization in the retail sector…

  • "Japan Government Websites Hit By Cyber-Attacks, Killnet Suspected"

    The Russia–affiliated hacking group Killnet recently claimed responsibility for a series of cyberattacks against Japanese companies and 20 websites across four government ministries.  In particular, Japan's government is investigating whether…

  • "InterContinental Hotels Confirms Cyberattack After Two-Day Outage"

    InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has recently confirmed its subsidiary Holiday Inn has been hit by a cyberattack.  More specifically, the firm issued a statement saying it was investigating "unauthorized access" to a number of its technology…

  • "Researchers Publish Post-Quantum Upgrade to the Signal Protocol"

    PQShield published a white paper outlining the quantum threat to secure end-to-end messaging and explaining how post-quantum cryptography (PQC) can be added to the Signal secure messaging protocol to protect it from quantum attacks. With the widespread…

  • "Authorities Take Down Prolific WT1SHOP Cybercrime Marketplace"

    According to the US Department of Justice (DoJ), the US and Portuguese authorities have shut down a notorious cybercrime marketplace that made sellers of stolen personal information (PII) millions of dollars over the years.  WT1SHOP was one of the…

  • "Game-Related Cyber-Threats: Almost 100k Malicious Files Last Year"

    Security researchers at Kaspersky disocvered that the total number of users who faced gaming-related malware and unwanted software from July 01, 2021, through June 30, 2022, was 384,224, with 91,984 files distributed across 28 games or series of games.…

  • "Collaborative Machine Learning That Preserves Privacy"

    To effectively train a Machine Learning (ML) model to perform a task, such as image classification, thousands, millions, or even billions of example images must be shown to the model. Gathering such massive datasets can be especially difficult when…

  • "BlackCat Ransomware Linked to Italy's Energy Services Firm Hack"

    It has recently been discovered that the infamous hacking group BlackCat was linked to the recent attack on Italy's state-owned energy services firm GSE.  BlackCat stole a considerable amount of data from GSE, then threatened to publish if their…

  • "CISA, FBI Warn of Vice Society Ransomware Attacks on Schools"

    The FBI and the US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a warning that Vice Society is "disproportionately" targeting the education sector with ransomware attacks, and they expect attacks to…

  • "New Stealthy Shikitega Malware Targeting Linux Systems and IoT Devices"

    Shikitega, a new piece of stealthy Linux malware, has been discovered employing a multi-stage infection chain to compromise endpoints and Internet of Things (IoT) devices and drop additional payloads. In addition to the cryptocurrency miner that will be…

  • "TeslaGun Primed to Blast a New Wave of Backdoor Cyberattacks"

    TeslaGun is a newly discovered cyberattack panel used by Evil Corp to run ServHelper backdoor campaigns. According to data gathered in an analysis conducted by the Prodraft Threat Intelligence (PTI) team, the Evil Corp ransomware gang, also known as…

  • "MooBot Malware Botnet Re-emerges to Attack Unpatched D-Link Routers"

    The MooBot Mirai malware botnet variant, which targets unprotected D-Link routers using a combination of existing and new flaws, reappeared in a new attack wave that began in early August. Fortinet experts discovered MooBot in December 2021 to spread…