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Israeli cyber-intelligence firm KELA notes that although hacktivism appears to be about causing service disruption through DDoS attacks or reputation damage via data leaks, the modus operandi of these threat groups encompasses a broader scope of activities, including common cybercrime tactics. Starting with the pro-Russia group Killnet, KELA says the hacktivists promoted a botnet for hire in November 2021, but their monetization methods expanded significantly in 2023.
Microsoft is investigating an issue causing Outlook Desktop to unexpectedly ask users to restore windows closed during a previous session. [...]
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The root of the problem is that shared CPU components, like the internal memory system, combine attacker data and data from any other application, resulting in a combined leakage signal in the power consumption. Whether just suffering a ransomware attack is inevitably enough to be a material data breach.
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Google will soon make it easier to remove your personally identifiable information and explicit images from search results right from Google Search or the Google app. The upgraded version will notify users if their personal information appears in Google Search results, allowing them to quickly remove it.
In alliance with Cohesity and others, Cisco is fueling near-zero latency between ransomware detection and remediation with its Extended Detection and Response platform. Remediation is a capability that Cisco has added to its XDR platform, which the company announced at the RSA conference in April and launched for general availability globally on Tuesday.
Serco Inc, the Americas division of multinational outsourcing company Serco Group, has disclosed a data breach after attackers stole the personal information of over 10,000 individuals from a third-party vendor's MoveIT managed file transfer server. "On June 30, 2023, Serco was made aware that our third-party benefits administration provider, CBIZ, experienced a ransomware attack and data breach," the company explained.
Threat actors are leveraging a technique called versioning to evade Google Play Store's malware detections and target Android users. Earlier this May, ESET discovered a screen recording app named "iRecorder - Screen Recorder" that remained innocuous for nearly a year after it was first uploaded to the Play Store before malicious changes were introduced sneakily to spy on its users.
The privacy-focused search engine Brave Search has finally introduced its own, independent image and video search capabilities, breaking free from relying on Bing and Google for media search. [...]