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Jan 23, 2024
OpenAI Announces Plans to Combat Misinformation Amid 2024 Elections​
With elections expected to occur in over 50 countries in 2024, the misinformation threat will be top of mind. OpenAI, the developer of the AI chatbot ChatGPT and the image generator DALL-E, has announced new measures to prevent abuse and misinformation ahead of big elections this year.
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Jan 22, 2024
New Tool Identifies Pegasus and Other iOS Spyware​
Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has unveiled a new, lightweight method to detect sophisticated iOS spyware, including notorious threats like Pegasus, Reign and Predator.
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Jan 12, 2024
China claims it cracked Apple's AirDrop to find numbers, email addresses​
A Chinese state-backed research institute claims to have discovered how to decrypt device logs for Apple's AirDrop feature, allowing the government to identify phone numbers or email addresses of those who shared content. China has a long history of censoring its people, requesting Apple block access to mobile apps, blocking encrypted messaging apps, such as Signal, and creating the Great Firewall of China to control what sites can be visited in the country.
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Jan 12, 2024
DDoS attack traffic surged in 2023, Cloudflare finds​
Distributed denial of service attacks hit an all-time high in 2023, more than doubling year over year in the fourth quarter, Cloudflare said Tuesday in a threat report. The record high year for DDoS attacks coincided with mass exploits of the novel zero-day vulnerability HTTP/2 Rapid Reset, which threat actors used to launch DDoS attacks that broke records during the third quarter of 2023.
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Jan 5, 2024
Unveiling Zeppelin2 Ransomware: A New Threat Emerges on Dark Web​
In a recent development on an underground forum, a user is actively promoting the sale of Zeppelin2 ransomware, offering both its source code and a cracked version of its builder tool. This malicious software, known for its destructive capabilities, has caught the attention of cybersecurity experts and law enforcement agencies worldwide.
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Jan 5, 2024
A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not​
The same cybercrime crew broke into two high-profile Las Vegas casino networks over the summer, infected both with ransomware, and stole data belonging to tens of thousands of customers from the mega-resort chains.
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Jan 4, 2024
Cybercriminals launched “Leaksmas” event in the Dark Web exposing massive volumes of leaked PII and compromised data​
On Christmas Eve, Resecurity protecting Fortune 100 and government agencies globally, observed multiple actors on the Dark Web releasing substantial data leaks. Over 50 million records containing PII of consumers from around the world have been leaked.
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Jan 3, 2024
GitHub warns users to enable 2FA before upcoming deadline​
GitHub is warning users that they will soon have limited functionality on the site if they do not enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on their accounts.
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Jan 2, 2024
5 Wackiest Cybersecurity Stories of 2023​
The world of information security covers a range of topics, and in such a rapidly evolving field, we sometimes come across unique, unusual and even downright whacky stories. These include bizarre attack methods and cybercriminals getting their comeuppance.
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