The 8220 cryptomining group has grown to include up to 30,000 infected hosts, up from 2,000 hosts globally in mid-2021. According to SentinelOne, this group is one of many low-skill crimeware gangs continously observed infecting cloud hosts, running a…

Researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) have made the largest benchmarking data set available for a Machine Learning (ML) method created with data privacy in mind. The method, known as federated learning, trains ML models on end-user devices such…

A new study titled "Valuing Intrinsic and Instrumental Preferences for Privacy," conducted by Tesary Lin of Boston University, calls on marketers and websites to separate consumer privacy preferences into intrinsic and instrumental components when those…

Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) have become a practical reality in the US.  As Synchron says, it has become the first in the country to implant a BCI in a human patient.  Doctors in New York's Mount Sinai West implanted the company's Stentrode…

New research reveals security flaws in a popular Chinese-made GPS vehicle tracker. The exploitation of these vulnerabilities can allow threat actors to track and remotely cut the engines of at least a million vehicles worldwide. BitSight, a cybersecurity…

According to researchers from the University of Surrey, message applications must do more to protect user data from undetected malware or over-the-shoulder eavesdropping that bypasses encryption before a message is sent. To combat this issue of close…

Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware, Cisco Systems, and Samsung are among the 12 companies chosen by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to lead the Unites States' transition to cryptographic standards that are immune to…

The US Justice Department recently seized approximately half a million dollars that North Korean government-backed hackers had either extorted from US health care organizations or used to launder ransom payments.  The North Korean hackers hit a…

The Albanian government, over the weekend, was hit with a "massive cyberattack," forcing its websites offline.  In a statement shared with local news outlets, the government blamed the incident on a synchronized "attack from abroad." The National…

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have discovered a new method for leaking information and jumping over air-gaps. The method involves Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) or Serial ATA cables as a communication medium, thus adding…

Security researchers at Sekoia warn that a Chinese threat actor group named Roaming Mantis has been targeting Android users in France with the MoqHao malware in a new smishing campaign. The researchers stated that the campaign uses phishing SMS messages…

Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 threat intelligence team found that the state-backed Russian hacking team behind some of the biggest digital intrusions in recent years has been using both Google Drive and Dropbox to deliver malware…