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Costa Rica state energy company calls in US experts to help with ransomware attack

The state-owned energy provider for Costa Rica was hit with a ransomware attack last week requiring the company to shift to manual operations and call in help from abroad. Refinadora Costarricense de ...
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Your car is probably harvesting your data. Here's how you can wipe it

This is Part 1 of a three-part series on automobile privacy that will run through the month of December. Read Part 2 and Part 3 here. It is so easy to vacuum up private data from vehicles that Andrea ...
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Russia delivers historic life sentence to suspected founder of darknet marketplace

A Russian court has handed down an unprecedented life sentence to the suspected kingpin of the dismantled darknet drug marketplace Hydra. Fifteen of his accomplices were also sentenced, with ...
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British telecoms giant BT confirms attempted cyberattack after ransomware gang claims hack

The telecommunications giant BT Group, one of Britain’s largest companies, confirmed on Wednesday “an attempt to compromise” its conferencing platform after the Black Basta ransomware group claimed on ...
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Pirated corporate software infects Russian businesses with info-stealing malware

Russian businesses that use unlicensed corporate software have fallen victim to an ongoing information-stealing campaign, researchers have found. The cybercriminals behind the campaign, which began in ...
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Blue Yonder says some customers restored as ransomware gang boasts of attack

Panasonic-owned software giant Blue Yonder said several of its customers’ systems are back up and running, as the gang allegedly behind the incident came forward on Friday to boast about troves of ...
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Another teenage hacker charged as feds continue Scattered Spider crackdown

An alleged member of the hacking group Scattered Spider has been charged with carrying out phishing attacks on telecommunications companies and a financial institution. The group is believed to be an ...
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Iran-linked hackers claim to leak troves of documents from Israeli hospital

A hacker group allegedly linked to Iran claimed to have leaked thousands of medical records from an Israeli hospital, including those of Israeli soldiers. In a cyberattack on Ziv Medical Center in the ...
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Taiwan critical infrastructure targeted by hackers with possible ties to Volt Typhoon

Hackers with apparent ties to several China-based groups like Volt Typhoon are targeting critical infrastructure in Taiwan as part of an ongoing campaign. Researchers at Cisco Talos discovered a ...
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CISA orders agencies to immediately patch Citrix Bleed 2, saying bug poses ‘unacceptable risk’

The federal cybersecurity watchdog ordered all civilian agencies to immediately patch a vulnerability impacting several NetScaler products used by organizations to manage network traffic. The ...
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Acting US Cyber Command, NSA chief won’t be nominated for the job, sources say

President Donald Trump has decided not to nominate Army Lt. Gen. William Hartman to be the next leader of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, according to four people familiar with ...
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New malware leverages WhatsApp to target Brazilian government and businesses

Hackers are using the WhatsApp messaging platform in an ongoing campaign to infect Windows computers across Brazil, researchers have found. The malware, dubbed Sorvepotel, spreads through phishing ...