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🦿 How Business Owners Can Evolve with a Changing Technological Landscape 🦿

Check out these five course bundles breaking down the most important IT, development, and cybersecurity skills that a business owner can master.

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🧠 How I got started: AI security executive 🧠

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are becoming increasingly crucial to cybersecurity systems. Organizations need professionals with a strong background that mixes AIML knowledge with cybersecurity skills, bringing on board people like Nicole Carignan, Vice President of Strategic Cyber AI at Darktrace, who has a unique blend of technical and soft skills. Carignan was originally a The post How I got started AI security executive appeared first on Security Intelligence.

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πŸ“” TfL Confirms Customer Data Breach, 17-Year-Old Suspect Arrested πŸ“”

TfL has revealed that some customer data was accessed in a recent cyberattack, potentially including the bank details of 5000 people.

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πŸ“” Mastercard Acquires Global Threat Intelligence Firm Recorded Future for $2.65bn πŸ“”

Mastercard aims to strengthen its cybersecurity capabilities by acquiring Recorded Future, a leading provider of threat intelligence.

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πŸ“” Lazarus Group Targets Developers in Fresh VMConnect Campaign πŸ“”

Lazarus Group has been observed impersonating Capital One staff to lure developers into downloading malware on open source repositories.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Beware: New Vo1d Malware Infects 1.3 Million Android TV Boxes Worldwide πŸ–‹οΈ

Nearly 1.3 million Androidbased TV boxes running outdated versions of the operating system and belonging to users spanning 197 countries have been infected by a new malware dubbed Vo1d aka Void. "It is a backdoor that puts its components in the system storage area and, when commanded by attackers, is capable of secretly downloading and installing thirdparty software," Russian antivirus.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Exposed Selenium Grid Servers Targeted for Crypto Mining and Proxyjacking πŸ–‹οΈ

Internetexposed Selenium Grid instances are being targeted by bad actors for illicit cryptocurrency mining and proxyjacking campaigns. "Selenium Grid is a server that facilitates running test cases in parallel across different browsers and versions," Cado Security researchers Tara Gould and Nate Bill said in an analysis published today. "However, Selenium Grid's default configuration lacks.

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πŸ“’ TfL reveals bank data on 5,000 customers exposed in cyber attack, arrest made following the incident πŸ“’

The TfL cyber incident has taken a turn for the worse, with the travel operator revealing some customer details may have been compromised.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ For Just $20, Researchers Seize Part of Internet Infrastructure πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Their findings highlight the frailty of some of the mechanisms for establishing trust on the Internet.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ 'Hadooken' Malware Targets Oracle's WebLogic Servers πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

An attacker is using the tool to deploy a cryptominer and the Tsunami DDoS bot on compromised systems.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Socially Savvy Scattered Spider Traps Cloud Admins in Web πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

The dangerous ransomware group is targeting financial and insurance sectors using smishing and vishing against IT service desk administrators, cybersecurity teams, and other employees with toplevel privileges.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Singapore Arrests 6 Suspected Members of African Cybercrime Group πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Law enforcement seized electronics containing special hacking tools and software as well as a substantial amount of cash in the raids.

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🦿 Google Cloud Strengthens Backup Service With Untouchable Vaults 🦿

The backup and data recovery service adds an extra layer of protection in case a business encounters an attack or another major problem with Google Cloud storage.

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πŸ–‹οΈ New Android Malware 'Ajina.Banker' Steals Financial Data and Bypasses 2FA via Telegram πŸ–‹οΈ

Bank customers in the Central Asia region have been targeted by a new strain of Android malware codenamed Ajina.Banker since at least November 2024 with the goal of harvesting financial information and intercepting twofactor authentication 2FA messages. Singaporeheadquartered GroupIB, which discovered the threat in May 2024, said the malware is propagated via a network of Telegram channels.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Urgent: GitLab Patches Critical Flaw Allowing Unauthorized Pipeline Job Execution πŸ–‹οΈ

GitLab on Wednesday released security updates to address 17 security vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw that allows an attacker to run pipeline jobs as an arbitrary user. The issue, tracked as CVE20246678, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10.0 "An issue was discovered in GitLab CEEE affecting all versions starting from 8.14 prior to 17.1.7, starting from 17.2 prior to.

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πŸ“” Irish Data Protection Regulator to Investigate Google AI πŸ“”

Irelands Data Protection Commission launches inquiry into whether Google followed GDPR rules over AI model training.

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πŸ“” Schools Face Million-Dollar Bills as Ransomware Rises πŸ“”

Ransomware gangs are targeting schools and higher education, with victims facing soaring ransom and recovery costs.

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πŸ“’ UK's data protection watchdog deepens cooperation with National Crime Agency πŸ“’

The two bodies want to improve the support given to organizations experiencing cyber attacks and ransomware recovery.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Microsoft VS Code Undermined in Asian Spy Attack πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

A technique to abuse Microsoft's builtin source code editor has finally made it into the wild, thanks to China's Mustang Panda APT.

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πŸ–‹οΈ New Linux Malware Campaign Exploits Oracle Weblogic to Mine Cryptocurrency πŸ–‹οΈ

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new malware campaign targeting Linux environments to conduct illicit cryptocurrency mining. The activity, which specifically singles out the Oracle Weblogic server, is designed to deliver malware dubbed Hadooken, according to cloud security firm Aqua. "When Hadooken is executed, it drops a Tsunami malware and deploys a crypto miner," security researcher.

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πŸ“’ Everything you need to know about the Fortinet data breach πŸ“’

Fortinet claims there is no evidence of malicious activity targeting customers in the wake of the breach.

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