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• Capture the Flag Competition Aims to Trace Missing Persons

  14-11-2019 19:58
  Capture the Flag Competition Aims to Trace Missing PersonsCyber professionals will compete to find leads in real missing persons cases in a competition in Washington, DC, next month. SANS Institute has teamed up with non-profit organization Trace Labs to host the Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Missing Persons Capture the Flag (CTF) in partnership with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.Participants, working in teams of up to four people, will gather fresh intelli
  
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• Boom in Lookalike Retail Domains

  14-11-2019 19:40
  Boom in Lookalike Retail Domains New research into domains registered with a trusted TLS certificate has found lookalike domains outnumber legitimate retails sites by more than 2:1.In a study conducted by researchers at Venafi, suspicious domains targeting 20 major retailers in the US, UK, France, Germany, and Australia were analyzed. Researchers found over 100,000 lookalike domains that use valid TLS certificates to appear safe and trustworthy. Threat actors use fake domains
  
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• Apple Employee Texts Himself Customer's Nude

  14-11-2019 17:36
  Apple Employee Texts Himself Customer's NudeA California woman has issued a warning on Facebook after discovering that an Apple store employee texted himself an intimate photo from her phone. Gloria Fuentes took her phone into the Valley Plaza Apple store in Bakersfield, California, on November 4 to get the screen repaired.Before handing her phone over to a man on the tech team, Fuentes had taken the precaution of removing social media apps and financial information from the devic
  
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• Shamoon-Slingers APT33 in Secret New Operations

  14-11-2019 12:50
  Shamoon-Slingers APT33 in Secret New Operations Security researchers are warning oil and aviation industry organizations to be on their guard after spotting a notorious Iranian APT group using private VPNs to keep its activity hidden.APT33 has been linked to the infamous Shamoon destructive malware which knocked out tens of thousands of PCs at Saudi Aramco in 2012 and has been deployed across Europe and the Middle East since.Now Trend Micro has observed the group using a dozen command and contro
  
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• Healthcare Malware Infections Soar 60% from 2018

  14-11-2019 11:30
  Healthcare Malware Infections Soar 60% from 2018Cyber-criminals are increasingly focusing data stealing and ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations (HCOs), with detected infections increasing by 60% from 2018 to the first three quarters of this year, according to Malwarebytes.The security vendor’s Cybercrime tactics and techniques: the 2019 state of healthcare report makes for concerning reading for IT security professionals in the sector.It claimed that hackers are attracted by the
  
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• Alleged $20M Carding Forum Mastermind Faces US Charges

  14-11-2019 10:49
  Alleged $20M Carding Forum Mastermind Faces US ChargesA Russian national is facing charges of running a $20m carding forum after being extradited from Israel to the US.Aleksei Burkov, 29, arrived at Dulles International Airport on Monday after being arrested initially at Ben-Gurion airport in December 2015, and failing in his appeal attempts over subsequent years to avoid being shipped to the States.According to an unsealed indictment, he is alleged to have run the Cardplanet site which sol
  
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