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Turla APT Unleashes New Backdoor In Wake of Afghan Unrest
- By ThreatPost
- . September 21, 2021
The Turla advanced persistent threat (APT) group is back with a new backdoor used to infect systems in Afghanistan, Germany and the U.S., researchers have
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Europol Breaks Open Extensive Mafia Cybercrime Ring
- By ThreatPost
- . September 21, 2021
International law enforcement has busted up an extensive cybercrime operation run by a gang with ties to the Italian Mafia. The group allegedly used phishing
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Amazon Driver-Surveillance Cameras Roll Out, Sparking Debate
- By ThreatPost
- . September 20, 2021
Drivers working for Amazon Delivery Service Partners (DSPs) are increasingly under constant surveillance for safe driving, monitored by artificial intelligence which awards them a score
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Bring Your APIs Out of the Shadows to Protect Your Business
- By ThreatPost
- . September 20, 2021
Pankaj Gupta, Senior Director, Citrix APIs are immensely more complex to secure. What was previously one request to one server has become dozens or
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HP Omen Hub Exposes Millions of Gamers to Cyberattack
- By ThreatPost
- . September 19, 2021
Millions of devices running the HP Omen Gaming Hub were using on a driver with a bug that could give attackers kernel-mode access without administrator
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DDoS Attacks: A Flourishing Business for Cybercrooks – Podcast
- By ThreatPost
- . September 19, 2021
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) started out as an inconvenience: They were a roadblock that kept customers from getting at systems. That’s bad enough. Keeping availability away
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Microsoft MSHTML Flaw Exploited by Ryuk Ransomware Gang
- By ThreatPost
- . September 18, 2021
Criminals behind the Ryuk ransomware were early exploiters of the Windows MSHTML flaw, actively leveraging the bug in campaigns ahead of a patch released by
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AT&T Phone-Unlocking Malware Ring Costs Carrier $200M
- By ThreatPost
- . September 18, 2021
The ringleader of a seven-year phone-unlocking and malware scheme will head to the clink for 12 years, according to the Department of Justice, after effectively
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Ditch the Alert Cannon: Modernizing IDS is a Security Must-Do
- By ThreatPost
- . September 18, 2021
After more than 20 years of underwhelming results, security leaders have accepted their intrusion detection system (IDS) programs as no more than a compliance checkoff.
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Porn Problem: Adult Ads Persist on US Gov’t, Military Sites
- By ThreatPost
- . September 17, 2021
U.S. military and government website subdomains have a sticky problem: They’re “quite vulnerable” to blackhat SEO tactics that result in persistent redirects to spammy Viagra