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📢 Healthcare data breaches are out of control – here's how the US plans to beef up security standards 📢

Changes to HIPAA security rules will require organizations to implement MFA, network segmentation, and more.

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🕵️‍♂️ Why Small Businesses Can't Rely Solely on AI to Combat Threats 🕵️‍♂️

The growing complexity of cyber threats, paired with limited resources, makes it essential for companies to adopt a more comprehensive approach that combines human vigilance with AI's capabilities.

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🕵️‍♂️ Chrome Extension Compromises Highlight Software Supply Challenges 🕵️‍♂️

The Christmas Eve compromise of datasecurity firm Cyberhaven's Chrome extension spotlights the challenges in shoring up thirdparty software supply chains.

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🦿 This Trusted App Helps Sluggish PCs Work Faster 🦿

CCleaner speeds up sluggish PCs by clearing junk files, fixing registry issues, and optimizing performance.

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🔗 Via "Tech Republic"

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🧠 Router reality check: 86% of default passwords have never been changed 🧠

Misconfigurations remain a popular compromise point and routers are leading the way. According to recent survey data, 86 of respondents have never changed their router admin password, and 52 have never adjusted any factory settings. This puts attackers in the perfect position to compromise enterprise networks. Why put the time and effort into creating phishing The post Router reality check 86 of default passwords have never been changed appeared first on Security Intelligence.

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🖋️ New AI Jailbreak Method 'Bad Likert Judge' Boosts Attack Success Rates by Over 60% 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new jailbreak technique that could be used to get past a large language model's LLM safety guardrails and produce potentially harmful or malicious responses. The multiturn aka manyshot attack strategy has been codenamed Bad Likert Judge by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers Yongzhe Huang, Yang Ji, Wenjun Hu, Jay Chen, Akshata Rao, and.

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📔 Atos Group Denies Space Bears' Ransomware Attack Claims 📔

Atos Group has denied the ransomware group Space Bears' claims of compromising its database, calling the allegations unfounded.

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📔 Crypto Boss Extradited to Face $40bn Fraud Charges 📔

Former Terraform CEO Do Hyeong Kwon is now in the US facing federal fraud charges.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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📔 DDoS Disrupts Japanese Mobile Giant Docomo 📔

Docomo has revealed a DDoS attack on Thursday took down key services.

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📔 Web3 Attacks Result in $2.3Bn in Cryptocurrency Losses 📔

The amount of crypto stolen in the Web3 ecosystem rose by 31.6 compared to 2023, with phishing the most costly attack vector.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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🦅 Cyble Research Reports Critical Vulnerabilities Exposing Routers, Firewalls, and Web Servers 🦅

Overview  Cyble Research Intelligence Labs CRIL has released its latest Weekly Vulnerability Insights report, offering a detailed overview of the critical vulnerabilities discovered between December 25, 2024, and December 31, 2024. The report highlights key security threats and vulnerabilities, including the addition of a major exploit to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog.  The identified vulnerabilities have exposed a range of systems to active exploitation, with attackers leveraging flaws to compromise routers, firewalls, and web servers. During the reporting period, CISA incorporated CVE20243393, a highseverity vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PANOS, into its KEV catalog. This flaw, which affects the PANOS ...

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📔 US Sanctions Chinese Cybersecurity Firm for Global Botnet Attacks 📔

The US government said that China based firm Integrity Technology Group provided infrastructure for Flax Typhoon to attack multiple US targets.

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🦿 How To Use SCP (Secure Copy) With SSH Key Authentication 🦿

Here's how to use the secure copy command, in conjunction with ssh key authentication, for an even more secure means of copying files to your remote Linux servers.

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🕵️‍♂️ Apple Offers $95M to Settle Siri Privacy Lawsuit 🕵️‍♂️

The proposed settlement would amount to roughly 20 per Apple product that has Siri enabled, for each plaintiff.

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🕵️‍♂️ Thousands of Buggy BeyondTrust Systems Remain Exposed 🕵️‍♂️

Weeks after the critical vulnerability was reported and a hacking of the Treasury Department, nearly 9,000 BeyondTrust instances remain wide open to the Internet, researchers say.

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🕵️‍♂️ New HIPAA Cybersecurity Rules Pull No Punches 🕵️‍♂️

Healthcare organizations of all shapes and sizes will be held to a stricter standard of cybersecurity starting in 2025 with new proposed rules, but not all have the budget for it.

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🕵️‍♂️ Treasury Dept. Sanctions Chinese Tech Vendor for Complicity 🕵️‍♂️

Integrity Technology Group was found complicit with Flax Typhoon as part of a broader Chinese strategy to infiltrate the IT systems of US critical infrastructure.

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🖋️ U.S. Treasury Sanctions Beijing Cybersecurity Firm for State-Backed Hacking Campaigns 🖋️

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC on Friday issued sanctions against a Beijingbased cybersecurity company known as Integrity Technology Group, Incorporated for orchestrating several cyber attacks against U.S. victims. These attacks have been publicly attributed to a Chinese statesponsored threat actor tracked as Flax Typhoon aka Ethereal Panda or.

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🖋️ PLAYFULGHOST Delivered via Phishing and SEO Poisoning in Trojanized VPN Apps 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called PLAYFULGHOST that comes with a wide range of informationgathering features like keylogging, screen capture, audio capture, remote shell, and file transferexecution. The backdoor, according to Google's Managed Defense team, shares functional overlaps with a known remote administration tool referred to as Gh0st RAT, which had its source.

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🖋️ Researchers Uncover Nuclei Vulnerability Enabling Signature Bypass and Code Execution 🖋️

A highseverity security flaw has been disclosed in ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei, a widelyused opensource vulnerability scanner that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to bypass signature checks and potentially execute malicious code. Tracked as CVE202443405, it carries a CVSS score of 7.4 out of a maximum of 10.0. It impacts all versions of Nuclei later than 3.0.0. "The.

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📔 Scammers Drain $500m from Crypto Wallets in a Year 📔

Scam Sniffer claims that threat actors used wallet drainers to steal 494m from victims in 2024.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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