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More than 100 arrested in Spain in $900,000 WhatsApp scheme
Spanish police have arrested more than 100 people who stole €850,000 (more than $900,000) through WhatsApp by pretending to be their victims’ family members in urgent need of help. According to a ...
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Newly identified botnet targets decade-old flaw in unpatched D-Link devices
Researchers have discovered a new botnet, labeled Goldoon, that exploits a decade-old vulnerability in unpatched D-Link routers. The flaw — CVE-2015-2051 — “presents a low attack complexity,” but has ...
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Hacker who blackmailed psychotherapy patients sentenced to six years in prison
Aleksanteri Kivimäki, the hacker charged with more than 30,000 counts of attempted extortion after breaching a psychotherapy center, has been sentenced to more than six years in prison, according to ...
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Exclusive: Deputy AG Monaco on ‘Operation Cookie Monster’ and why it represents a change
The Department of Justice says last month’s effort to bring down the Genesis Market represents a departure from its traditional cyber enforcement actions. “Operation Cookie Monster” wasn’t about ...
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The NSA’s research chief on emerging tech — including ‘beyond belief’ leaps in AI
NASHVILLE — Gilbert Herrera was accustomed to never seeing the fruits of his labor. After spending almost 40 years at Sandia National Laboratories, Herrera was appointed in 2021 as the head of the ...
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Nakasone on the military’s cyber strategy, surveillance powers and ‘hunt forward’ missions
NASHVILLE — U.S. Cyber Command Gen. Paul Nakasone sat down with reporters after his closing keynote address at the Vanderbilt University Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats to weigh in on a ...
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More than 1 million people have SSNs leaked after cyberattack on hospital technology giant
Hospital technology giant NextGen Healthcare said hackers accessed the personal information of more than 1 million people during a cyberattack in March. The multibillion-dollar healthcare company ...
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Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting millions of PCs
Hundreds of millions of Dell desktops, laptops, notebooks, and tablets will need to update their Dell DBUtil driver to fix a 12-year-old vulnerability that exposes systems to attacks. The bug, tracked ...
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Colleges and schools across US dealing with ransomware incidents, cyberattacks
Thousands of students at several U.S. schools started the week feeling the impact of ransomware attacks and other cybersecurity incidents. Bluefield University — a private Baptist school in Bluefield, ...
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MacBook users beware: Atomic Stealer malware gets new capabilities
Cybercriminals are increasingly deploying information-stealing malware to target Apple computers, cybersecurity researchers say. One of these macOS infostealers, Atomic Stealer, has caught the ...
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Ransomware group behind Oakland attack targets city in Massachusetts
The cybercrime group that launched a devastating attack on the city of Oakland has taken credit for yet another breach of a local government — this time naming the Massachusetts city of Lowell as its ...
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NSA, Cyber Command tap new election security leaders
NASHVILLE — U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency have named the newest leaders of a joint election security task force that will play a central role in keeping the 2022 midterm ...