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Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak

Krebs on Security

Image: Camdenliving.com Also, the fobs pass the credentials to his front door over the air in plain text, meaning someone could clone the fob just by bumping against him with a smartphone app made to read and write NFC tags. Meanwhile, Chirp’s parent company, RealPage, Inc. , is being sued by multiple U.S. out of a possible 10).

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US arrested Latvian woman who developed part of Trickbot malware

Security Affairs

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of a Latvian woman for her alleged role in the development of the Trickbot malware. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of Alla Witte (aka Max), a Latvian woman that was charged for her alleged role in the development of the Trickbot malware.

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North Korea offers school for hackers to train minds as young as 10

CyberSecurity Insiders

Every Year only those who pass out with flying colors are moved to Universities where they are trained in related fields such as computer science and military warfare and after that they are tagged as a member of elite army comprising 7000 individuals (for now) who are well versed in spreading digital chaos and confusion on the World Wide Web.

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GUEST ESSAY: The drivers behind persistent ransomware — and defense tactics to deploy

The Last Watchdog

They could be on the other side of the globe, part of a cybercrime regime that will never be discovered, much less brought to justice. The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over. But the situation isn’t hopeless. Prevalence.

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Dark Basin, a hack-for-hire group that remained under the radar for 7 years

Security Affairs

Department of Justice (DoJ) and is notifying additional targets of the hack-for-hire group. A hack-for-hire group tracked as Dark Basin targeted thousands of journalists, advocacy groups, and politicians worldwide over 7 years. ” reads the report published by Citizen Lab. ” reads the report published by Citizen Lab.

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Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022

SecureList

A file that attempts to pass itself as ‘image/png’ but does not have the proper.PNG format loads a PHP web shell in compromised sites by replacing the legitimate shortcut icon tags with a path to the fake.PNG file. First of all, we are going to analyze the forecasts we made at the end of 2020 and see how accurate they were.

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Analysing the (Alleged) Minneapolis Police Department "Hack"

Troy Hunt

I've now seen several versions of the same set of email addresses and passwords albeit with different attribution up the top of the file. There are 798 email addresses in the data set but only 689 unique ones. 87 of the email addresses appear multiple times, usually twice, but one of them 7 times over.

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