Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

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Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Cybercrime Forces Local Law Enforcement to Shift Focus Cybercrime Forces Local Law Enforcement to Shift Focus

Local law enforcement have to shift away from "place-based policing" when investigating cybercrime.

byJennifer Lawinski, Contributing Writer

Feb 6, 2025

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DeepSeek Phishing Sites Pursue User Data, Crypto Wallets DeepSeek Phishing Sites Pursue User Data, Crypto Wallets

byJai Vijayan, Contributing Writer

Feb 6, 2025

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Vulnerabilities & Threats

The Cyber Savanna: A Rigged Race You Can't Win, but Must Run Anyway Cyber Savanna: A Rigged Race You Can't Win, but Must Run

Feb 6, 2025

1 Min Read

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Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Basket of Bank Trojans Defraud Citizens of East India Basket of Bank Trojans Defraud Citizens of East India

byNate Nelson, Contributing Writer

Feb 6, 2025

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Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Why Cybersecurity Needs Probability — Not Predictions Why Cybersecurity Needs Probability — Not Predictions

byVishaal "V8" Hariprasad

Feb 5, 2025

1 Min Read

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Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Attackers Target Education Sector, Hijack Microsoft Accounts Attackers Target Education Sector, Hijack Microsoft Accounts

byElizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer

Feb 5, 2025

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Nigeria Touts Cyber Success, Even as Cybercrime Rises in Africa

Nigeria Touts Cyber Success, Even as Cybercrime Rises in Africa

byRobert Lemos, Contributing Writer

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Threat Intelligence

Cybercriminals Court Traitorous Insiders via Ransom Notes

Cybercriminals Court Traitorous Insiders via Ransom Notes

byKristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

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Сloud Security

Chinese 'Infrastructure Laundering' Abuses AWS, Microsoft Cloud

Chinese 'Infrastructure Laundering' Abuses AWS, Microsoft Cloud

byElizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer

Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

DNSFilter's Annual Security Report Reveals Worrisome Spike in Malicious DNS Requests

DNSFilter's Annual Security Report Reveals Worrisome Spike in Malicious DNS Requests

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Vulnerabilities & Threats

Proactive Vulnerability Management for Engineering Success

Proactive Vulnerability Management for Engineering Success

byRemi Yazigi, Information Security Engineer, Cisco Systems

Black Hat USA 2024

Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Black Hat USA 2024 Highlights

Black Hat USA 2024 Highlights

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Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Community Health Center Data Breach Affects 1M Patients

Community Health Center Data Breach Affects 1M Patients

byKristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

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Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Healthcare Sector Charts 2 More Ransomware Attacks

Healthcare Sector Charts 2 More Ransomware Attacks

byKristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

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Threat Intelligence

Fake Videos of Former First Lady Scam Namibians

Fake Videos of Former First Lady Scam Namibians

byNate Nelson, Contributing Writer

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Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Researchers Uncover Lazarus Group Admin Layer for C2 Servers

Researchers Uncover Lazarus Group Admin Layer for C2 Servers

byJai Vijayan, Contributing Writer

Endpoint Security

Unpatched Zyxel CPE Zero-Day Pummeled by Cyberattackers

Unpatched Zyxel CPE Zero-Day Pummeled by Cyberattackers

byKristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

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Endpoint Security

Mirai Variant 'Aquabot' Exploits Mitel Device Flaws

Mirai Variant 'Aquabot' Exploits Mitel Device Flaws

byElizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer

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Threat Intelligence

Lynx Ransomware Group 'Industrializes' Cybercrime With Affiliates

Lynx Ransomware Group 'Industrializes' Cybercrime With Affiliates

byKristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

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Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Phishing Campaign Baits Hook With Malicious Amazon PDFs

Phishing Campaign Baits Hook With Malicious Amazon PDFs

byKristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

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Reporting a Breach or Vuln? Be Sure Your Lawyer's on Call

Reporting a Breach or Vuln? Be Sure Your Lawyer's on Call

byRobert Lemos, Contributing Writer

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Endpoint Security

Apple Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability

Apple Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vuln

byKristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

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Endpoint Security

USPS Impersonators Tap Trust in PDFs in Smishing Attack Wave

USPS Impersonators Tap Trust in PDFs in Smishing Attacks

byElizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer

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Cybersecurity Operations

MITRE's Latest ATT&CK Simulations Tackle Cloud Defenses

MITRE's Latest ATT&CK Simulations Tackle Cloud Defenses

byRobert Lemos, Contributing Writer

Vulnerabilities & Threats

Cisco: Critical Meeting Management Bug Requires Urgent Patch

Cisco: Critical Meeting Management Bug Requires Urgent Patch

byKristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

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Vulnerabilities & Threats

Strengthening Our National Security in the AI Era

Strengthening Our National Security in the AI Era

byMike Arrowsmith, Chief Trust Officer, NinjaOne

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Endpoint Security

Black 'Magic' Targets Enterprise Juniper Routers With Backdoor

Black 'Magic' Targets Enterprise Juniper Routers With Backdoor

byNate Nelson, Contributing Writer

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Threat Intelligence

Chinese Cyberspies Target South Korean VPN in Supply Chain Attack

Chinese Cyberspies Target South Korean VPN in Supply Chain Attack

byElizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer

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Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Email Bombing, 'Vishing' Tactics Abound in Microsoft 365 Attacks

Email Bombing, 'Vishing' Tactics Abound in Microsoft 365 Attacks

byKristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

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Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

DONOT Group Deploys Malicious Android Apps in India

DONOT Group Deploys Malicious Android Apps in India

byJai Vijayan, Contributing Writer

Threat Intelligence

HPE Investigates After Alleged Data Breach

HPE Investigates After Alleged Data Breach

byKristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

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Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Mirai Botnet Spinoffs Unleash Global Wave of DDoS Attacks

Mirai Botnet Spinoffs Unleash Global Wave of DDoS Attacks

byElizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer

Endpoint Security

15K Fortinet Device Configs Leaked to the Dark Web

15K Fortinet Device Configs Leaked to the Dark Web

byNate Nelson, Contributing Writer

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Threat Intelligence

US Sanctions Chinese Hacker & Firm for Treasury, Critical Infrastructure Breaches

US Sanctions Chinese Hacker for Treasury, Infrastructure Breaches

byKristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

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Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Russian APT Phishes Kazakh Gov't for Strategic Intel

Russian APT Phishes Kazakh Gov't for Strategic Intel

byNate Nelson, Contributing Writer

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