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Unveiling Deception: How to Spot Scams Before They Spot You
Ransomware: Strategies for Safeguarding Your Digital Assets
Unraveling the Power of AI in Cybersecurity: Safeguarding the Digital Realm
Fortifying Cybersecurity Defenses
Optimizing Healthcare Cybersecurity Cost and Staffing: Balancing Resources and Risk in Healthcare
Leading Cybersecurity Companies GS Lab | GAVS and ASMGi Announce Strategic Partnership to Enhance Global Cyber Defense
Understanding the Importance of Third-Party Risk Management in Healthcare
Embracing Smart Manufacturing: Unveiling IoT Trends, Challenges, and Cybersecurity in the Era of Industry 4.0
Cybersecurity Update – Terin D. Williams – DHS – CISA
Real Life Cyber Attacks - Dec 1 Event
The age of IoT and AI is quickly advancing, demanding more compute power and lower latency at the edge to ensure quick response and great performance.
xIoT Device Risk: Turning the Industry Inside-Out
Cyber Insurance: Digital Risk Mitigation Plan From Financial Loss
AI In Healthcare
Cybersecurity News from Around the Web
Hackers Exploiting WP-Automatic Plugin Bug to Create Admin Accounts on WordPress Sites
Threat actors are attempting to actively exploit a critical security flaw in the WP‑Automatic plugin for WordPress that could allow site takeovers. The shortcoming, tracked as CVE-2024-27956, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10. It impacts all versions...
OpenAI’s GPT-4 Can Autonomously Exploit 87% of One-Day Vulnerabilities, Study Finds
Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that OpenAI’s GPT-4 is able to exploit 87% of a list of vulnerabilities when provided with their NIST descriptions.
FBI warns against using unlicensed crypto transfer services
The FBI has warned today that using unlicensed cryptocurrency transfer services can result in financial loss if these platforms are taken down by law enforcement. [...]
LA County Health Services: Patients’ data exposed in phishing attack
The L.A. County's Department of Health Services, the second-largest public health care system in the United States, disclosed a data breach after patients' personal and health information was exposed in a data breach resulting from a recent phishing attack impacting...
Researchers sinkhole PlugX malware server with 2.5 million unique IPs
Researchers have sinkholed a command and control server for a variant of the PlugX malware and observed in six months more than 2.5 million connections from unique IP addresses. [...]
Reddit down in major outage blocking access to web, mobile apps
Reddit is investigating a major outage blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network's websites and mobile apps. [...]
North Korea’s Lazarus Group Deploys New Kaolin RAT via Fake Job Lures
The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Lazarus Group employed its time-tested fabricated job lures to deliver a new remote access trojan called Kaolin RAT. The malware could, "aside from standard RAT functionality, change the last write timestamp of a selected...
Over 1,400 CrushFTP servers vulnerable to actively exploited bug
Over 1,400 CrushFTP servers exposed online were found vulnerable to attacks currently targeting a critical severity server-side template injection (SSTI) vulnerability previously exploited as a zero-day. [...]
WP Automatic WordPress plugin hit by millions of SQL injection attacks
Hackers have started to target a critical severity vulnerability in the WP Automatic plugin for WordPress to create user accounts with administrative privileges and to plant backdoors for long-term access. [...]
Women in Cybersecurity: ISC2 Survey Shows Pay Gap and Benefits of Inclusive Teams
About 23% of security teams include women, ISC2 found in its Cybersecurity Workforce Study.