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FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email...

Large enterprises scramble after supply-chain attack spills their secrets

Open-source software used by more than 23,000 organizations, some of them in large enterprises, was compromised with credential-stealing code after attackers gained unauthorized access to...

Serbian student’s Android phone compromised by exploit from Cellebrite

Amnesty International on Friday said it determined that a zero-day exploit sold by controversial exploit vendor Cellebrite was used to compromise the phone of a...

Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft

Screenshot showing Copilot continues to serve tools Microsoft took action to have removed from GitHub. Credit: Lasso ...

How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history

The cryptocurrency industry and those responsible for securing it are still in shock following Friday’s heist, likely by North Korea, that drained $1.5 billion from...

Backdoor infecting VPNs used “magic packets” for stealth and security

When threat actors use backdoor malware to gain access to a network, they want to make sure all their hard work can’t be leveraged by...

Code found online exploits LogoFAIL to install Bootkitty Linux backdoor

Normally, Secure Boot prevents the UEFI from running all subsequent files unless they bear a digital signature certifying those files are trusted by the device...

Spies hack Wi-Fi networks in far-off land to launch attack on target next door

While stalking its target, GruesomeLarch performed credential-stuffing attacks that compromised the passwords of several accounts on a web service platform used by the organization's employees....

Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide

An international coalition of police agencies has taken a major whack at criminals accused of running a host of online scams, including phishing, the stealing...

Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines

The IP address returned by a package Phylum analyzed was: hxxp://193.233.20121:3001. While the method was likely intended to conceal the source of second-stage infections, it...

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