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'A tragedy': Closure of 150-year-old college underscores toll of ransomware attacks

🏫 Lincoln College closes its doors Friday, becoming the 1st US higher edu institute to shut down partly due to #ransomware. Goodbye note on website said it survived both WW's and the Great Depression, but not Covid & severe cyberattack.

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13.5.2022

Mozilla: Lack of Security Protections in Mental-Health Apps Is ‘Creepy’

Mental-health apps can have good intentions, but harm users by exposing intimate data due to severe lack #privacy safeguards. Mozilla's team used avg. 8h's to investigate 32 apps each: 88% got slapped with a "Privacy Not Included" -label.

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6.5.2022

Deepfakes Are a Growing Threat to Cybersecurity and Society: Europol

Europol warns of deepfakes as #cybercrime's next big weapon for creating better scams. Deepfake tech uses AI techniques to alter existing or create new audio or video content. ⚠️ Study in 2019 showed 72% of people being unaware of them.

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6.5.2022

What’s behind the record‑high number of zero days?

Multiple research teams observed big growth in reported zero-days in 2021. Possible reasons are: ☁️ Move toward cloud hosting, mobile and IoT tech 🦹 Expanding exploit broker marketplace 🖥️ Better detection capabilities #cybersecurity

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6.5.2022

SolarWinds Attackers Gear Up for Typosquatting Attacks

☣️ #Cybersecurity company warns of typosquatting preparation, where used infra refers to Nobelium hacker group. In these attacks criminals buy a domain that mimics a known brand (is e.g. misspelled) and use it e.g. for phising purposes.

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6.5.2022

White House to boost support for quantum technology while boosting cybersecurity

💻 Nations race for quantum tech, which could fuel advances e.g. in AI. Quantum computers work millions of times faster than today's supercomputers. The White House adds measures for both, research and #cybersecurity towards quantum tech.

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6.5.2022

The trouble with BEC: How to stop the costliest internet scam

FBI's IC3 reports reveal 20k BEC scams generated 2,5B$ losses in 2021, more than any other type of #cybercrime. To battle it, consider: 👥 Staff guidelines and training 💻 Advanced email security 💰 Improved payment processes

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29.4.2022

The 15 most exploited vulnerabilities in 2021

☣️ Most exploited CVEs by attackers in 2021, compiled by #cybersecurity authorities: Log4Shell CVE-2021-40539 – in ManageEngine ProxyShell – in MS Exchange CVE-2021-26084 – in Confluence Full list in article >>

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29.4.2022

Coca-Cola Investigates Data-Theft Claims After Ransomware Attack

#Ransomware group Stormous claims to have stolen 161GB of Coca-Cola's data - and is willing to sell it for 64k€. Case is unconfirmed & the relatively small ask is making experts suspicious of the value and even existence of stolen data.

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29.4.2022