Chrome

3 Million Chrome Users Infected via Extensions—Here We Go Again

28 browser extensions for Chrome and Edge were laced with malware, says an anti-virus vendor ...
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Russia

SUNBURST: Russia Fingered in ‘Perfect 10’ Supply Chain Attack

Russian spies have been operating inside countless enterprises and government agencies, thanks to a hack of SolarWinds ...
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threat hunting

One Step Ahead: Using Threat Hunting to Anticipate the Unknown

Threat-hunting is a way to stay one step ahead of cybercriminals, spotting unusual activity before damage occurs A cyberthreat could be lurking in any corner of an organization’s infrastructure. The complex networks ...
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CIA

Second Swiss Firm Said to Be CIA Encryption Puppet

First Crypto AG, and now Omnisec AG: Sources say second Swiss company was also in the pocket of the CIA ...
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Google

Google Finally Pulls Chinese Apps Stealing Personal Data

After six million downloads, two spyware Baidu apps have been removed from the Play Store. What took Google so long? ...
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Chinese

Japanese Orgs Hacked ‘by China’ in Long, Widespread Campaign

Chinese state-backed threat actors APT10 have been hacking Japanese businesses for at least a year ...
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Sandworm

3 Takeaways from Sandworm Hacker Group’s Indictment 

The U.S.Department of Justice officially revealed in October what it said were a number of instances of Russian government-sponsored hacking when it formally indicated six members and officers in Russia’s military agency ...
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threat intelligence

HackNotice to Democratize Threat Intelligence

HackNotice announced today it has added a set of free analysis and visualization tools to enable end users to know when their personally identifiable information has been disclosed. The tools, dubbed Risk ...
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Linux

Cisco Advances Effort to Simplify Security

Cisco Systems has updated SecureX, a free console it provides for its portfolio of security offerings, to include sample extended detection and response (XDR) workflows along with additional analytics and a refreshed ...
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Google

Google ‘Irresponsibly’ Discloses Windows Zero-Day

Google discovered a “threat actor” exploiting a pair of bugs—one in Chrome and one in Windows ...
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