General Security News
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Mantis Botnet Behind the Largest HTTPS DDoS Attack Targeting Cloudflare Customers
The botnet behind the largest HTTPS distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in June 2022 has been linked to a spate of attacks aimed at nearly...
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Former CIA Engineer Convicted of Leaking 'Vault 7' Hacking Secrets to WikiLeaks
Joshua Schulte, a former programmer with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has been found guilty of leaking a trove of classified hacking...
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Cybercriminals Impersonate as Cybersecurity Firms in Callback Phishing Campaigns
Threat actors have begun impersonating prominent security companies in a new callback phishing campaign. The primary purpose of this campaign is...
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Microsoft Warns of Large-Scale AiTM Phishing Attacks Against Over 10,000 Organizations
Microsoft on Tuesday disclosed that a large-scale phishing campaign targeted over 10,000 organizations since September 2021 by hijacking Office...
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New 'Retbleed' Speculative Execution Attack Affects AMD and Intel CPUs
Security researchers have uncovered yet another vulnerability affecting numerous older AMD and Intel microprocessors that could bypass current...
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U.S. FTC Vows to Crack Down on illegal Use and Sharing of Citizens' Sensitive Data
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned this week that it will crack down on tech companies' illegal use and sharing of highly sensitive...
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Critical Fortinet Flaws Patched – Following Products Affected
Fortinet, a cybersecurity company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California develops and sells cybersecurity solutions, such as physical firewalls,...
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Common API Security Risks and How to Mitigate Them
Though central to innovation in the app-driven digital ecosystem, APIs or Application Programming Interfaces expose more data and endpoints than...
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Hackers Steal $540 Million From Axie Infinity Using a Fake Job Offer on LinkedIn
During the month of March 2022, one of Axie Infinity’s former employees became the victim of a fake job offer on LinkedIn and applied for the...
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Researchers Uncover New Attempts by Qakbot Malware to Evade Detection
The operators behind the Qakbot malware are transforming their delivery vectors in an attempt to sidestep detection. "Most recently, threat actors...
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Microsoft Releases Fix for Zero-Day Flaw in July 2022 Security Patch Rollout
Microsoft released its monthly round of Patch Tuesday updates to address 84 new security flaws spanning multiple product categories, counting a...
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TikTok Postpones Privacy Policy Update in Europe After Italy Warns of GDPR Breach
Popular video-sharing platform TikTok on Tuesday agreed to pause a controversial privacy policy update that could have allowed it to serve targeted...