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Trojanized Password Crackers Targeting Industrial Systems

Threat actors are targeting systems in industrial control environments with backdoor malware hidden in fake password-cracking tools. The tools, being touted for sale on a variety of social media...

CISA Urges Patch of Exploited Windows 11 Bug by Aug. 2

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Feds urge U.S. agencies to patch a Microsoft July Patch Tuesday 2022 bug that is being exploited in the wild by August 2. A Windows 11 vulnerability, part of...
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Ransomware Attempts Flag as Payments Also Decline

Attempted ransomware attacks declined in the first quarter of 2022, as companies continued to be less likely to pay requested ransoms and the war between Russia and Ukraine disrupted...
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Name That Toon: Modern-Day Fable

We provide the carrot — the chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card — and you provide a possible caption for the cartoon above. It's that simple (and...
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WordPress Page Builder Plug-in Under Attack, Can’t Be Patched

Although the plug-in is no longer available, the Kaswara Modern WPBakery Page Builder Addons is still running on as many as 8,000 WordPress sites, according to analysts who warn...

Journalists Emerge as Favored Attack Target for APTs

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Since 2021, various state-aligned threat groups have turned up their targeting of journalists to siphon data and credentials and also track them. Targeted phishing attacks are traced to multiple threat...
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Sandworm APT Trolls Researchers on Its Trail as It Targets Ukraine

The infamous Sandworm threat group operating out of Russia's military GRU unit has no qualms about taunting researchers when it finds it is being watched. Just ask Robert Lipovsky and...
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Ex-CIA Programmer Found Guilty of Stealing Vault 7 Data, Giving It to Wikileaks

Joshua Schulte, a former CIA programmer, has been found guilty by a jury in a Manhattan, NY court for stealing the trove of classified data on US cyber espionage...