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  • "DirtyMoe Botnet Returns With Undetectable Threat Profile"

    The newest version of the malware botnet known as DirtyMoe has made some significant changes, pushing it back into the spotlight. Its first iteration, NuggetPhantom, appeared in 2016. However, NuggetPhantom and other early samples of the threat did not…

  • "Record-Setting DDoS Attack Hits Financial Service Firm"

    Cloudflare's autonomous edge distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection systems automatically detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (RPS) DDoS attack. This attack is said to be nearly three times larger than any previous HTTP DDoS…

  • "Gaming-Related Cyberthreats in 2020 and 2021"

    To measure the level of the cybersecurity risk associated with gaming, researchers at Kaspersky investigated several types of threats. The researchers examined malware and unwanted software disguised as popular PC and mobile games. The researchers used…

  • "NYC Teachers' Social Security Numbers Exposed"

    In January, students at Brooklyn Technical High School reportedly stumbled across a Google Drive containing documents uploaded by staff and students at schools across New York City. Among the documents were college recommendation letters, classwork, and…

  • "Crypto Platform Poly Network Rewards Hacker with $500,000 'Bug Bounty'"

    White Hacker returns millions in cryptocurrency hacked from Poly Network last week. The company has decided to offer the hacker a $500K bug bounty. The white hat hacker had stated that he/she had initiated the hack for fun—and was motivated to…

  • "Ransomware: This Amateur Attack Shows How Clueless Criminals Are Trying to Get In on the Action"

    Cybersecurity researchers at Abnormal Security have released details about an amateur ransomware campaign in which social engineering is used in an attempt to trick employees into installing DemonWare ransomware on their organization's network, in return…

  • "Maritime Cyber Alert: ‘BadAlloc’ Critical Vulnerability"

    The Coast Guard Cyber Command, Maritime Cyber Readiness Branch issued an alert to the Maritime community, recommending that they examine their systems to determine if they have BlackBerry QNX versions 6.5 or below, or any of the other products recently…

  • "Securing The Smart Grid"

    Birol Yeşilada, government faculty and director of Portland State University's (PSU) Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, is the principal investigator of a new two-year $2 million grant awarded to PSU by the National Security Agency (NSA). This grant…

  • "CISA Shares Guidance on How to Prevent Ransomware Data Breaches"

    The U.S. Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has shared guidance on how government and private sector organizations could prevent data breaches caused by ransomware attacks. CISA's guidance covers best…

  • "Fortinet Firewall Flaw Could Allow Hackers to Take Over a Device"

    Fortinet's Web Application Firewall (WAF) platform FortiWeb contains an Operating System (OS) command injection vulnerability that could allow hackers to take over a device and run commands on it. According to researchers at Rapid7, the bug in FortiWeb's…

  • "US Census Bureau Slammed for 2020 Breach"

    A government inspector has heavily criticized the US Census Bureau after a 2020 breach which could have been prevented by prompt patching.  Although the attacker could not access servers used for the 2020 census, they could modify user account data…

  • "Device Complexity Leaving Schools at Heightened Risk of Ransomware Attacks"

    Researchers at Absolute Software conducted new research that revealed the significant management and security challenges faced by K-12 education IT teams with the rise in digital learning and widespread adoption of 1:1 device programs. The researchers…