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North Korean hacking group targets defense contractors

A North Korean hacking group appears to be targeting U.S. defense contractors in a new malware campaign using infected documents containing fake job listings. The Lazarus Group, a sophisticated hacking group tied to North Korea’s principal intelligence agency, has been sending malicious documents with fake job opportunities to aerospace and defense contractor Lockheed Martin, according to Malwarebytes …

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A Bluetooth bug in a popular at-home COVID-19 test could falsify results

A security researcher found a Bluetooth vulnerability in a popular at-home COVID-19 test allowing him to modify its results. F-Secure researcher Ken Gannon identified the since-fixed flaw in the Ellume COVID-19 Home Test, a self-administered antigen test that individuals can use to check to see if they have been infected with the virus. Rather than …

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Remote Workers Have More ‘Digital Anxiety’ Than Office Counterparts: New Poll

Remote workers apparently have more to worry about than their in-office counterparts. Indeed, according to a new international survey, 67% of these workers said they worry more about their online security and privacy their in-office counterparts (58%), even though there is nothing wrong that would trigger their concerns. The survey was conducted by cybersecurity firm F-Secure and included 7,200 workers …

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AwareGo’s New Human Risk Assessment Tool To Help Enhance Security

Companies can use AwareGO’s comprehensive and innovative human risk assessment tool to measure and track their employees’ cybersecurity knowledge and behavior. Fremont, CA: “To date, companies have mostly been fighting vulnerabilities with technology and processes,” comments AwareGO CEO Ari Kristinn Jonsson, Ph.D. AwareGO, a company that specializes in human cyber risk and awareness, has released Human …

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Use of encrypted Telegram platform soars in Ukraine, Russia

Encrypted messaging service Telegram is proving a valuable asset to both sides in Russia’s war on Ukraine Encrypted, cloud-based chat, voice-over-IP (VoIP) and videoconferencing service Telegram is emerging as key source of information for both Ukrainians and a growing anti-war Russian constituency as Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine enters its eighth day amid allegations of war crimes …

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Ransomware seen as No. 1 threat of financial organizations

A new study from F-Secure released Thursday found that ransomware has become the No. 1 threat for financial services organizations. According to the study, this was based on the perceived impact a ransomware attack could have on the resiliency of an organization, resulting in considerable financial, operational and reputational loss. Financial organizations are also increasingly concerned about supply chain threats from …

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SynSaber Launches Palm-Sized Threat Sensor for OT Environments

Industrial asset and network monitoring solutions provider SynSaber has announced the general availability of its product, a small device that enables organizations to gain visibility into their operational technology (OT) environments and detect potential threats. The company describes its product, SynSaber 1.0, as a vendor-agnostic, palm-sized threat sensor that can be hosted on existing infrastructure, …

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