Four Plead Guilty to Aiding Cyber Criminals with Bulletproof Hosting

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Four Eastern European nationals face 20 years in prison for Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) charges after pleading guilty to providing bulletproof hosting services between 2008 and 2015, which were …

Ransomware Cyber Attack Forced the Largest U.S. Fuel Pipeline to Shut Down

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Colonial Pipeline, which carries 45% of the fuel consumed on the U.S. East Coast, on Saturday said it halted operations due to a ransomware attack, once again demonstrating how infrastructure is vulnerable …

4 Major Privacy and Security Updates From Google You Should Know About

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Google has announced a number of user-facing and under-the-hood changes in an attempt to boost privacy and security, including rolling out two-factor authentication automatically to all eligible users and bringing …

Top 12 Security Flaws Russian Spy Hackers Are Exploiting in the Wild

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Cyber operatives affiliated with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) have switched up their tactics in response to previous public disclosures of their attack methods, according to a new advisory jointly published …

New TsuNAME Flaw Could Let Attackers Take Down Authoritative DNS Servers

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Security researchers Thursday disclosed a new critical vulnerability affecting Domain Name System (DNS) resolvers that could be exploited by adversaries to carry out reflection-based denial-of-service attacks against authoritative nameservers. The …

New Stealthy Rootkit Infiltrated Networks of High-Profile Organizations

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An unknown threat actor with the capabilities to evolve and tailor its toolset to target environments infiltrated high-profile organizations in Asia and Africa with an evasive Windows rootkit since at …