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International Press – Newsletter
Cybercrime
Anna Jaques Hospital ransomware breach exposed data of 300K patients
Black Basta Ransomware Campaign Drops Zbot, DarkGate, and Custom Malware
It’s time to get to know deepfakes before they get to know you
Law enforcement shuts down 27 DDoS booters ahead of annual Christmas attacks
Rydox Cybercrime Marketplace Shut Down and Three Administrators Arrested
The ‘Ghost Gun’ Linked to Luigi Mangione Shows Just How Far 3D-Printed Weapons Have Come
PROXY.AM Powered by Socks5Systemz Botnet
Inside Zloader’s Latest Trick: DNS Tunneling
BSI points out pre-installed malware on IoT devices
Lookout Discovers New Chinese Surveillance Tool Used by Public Security Bureaus
Hacking
(QR) Coding My Way Out of Here: C2 in Browser Isolation Environments
Researchers Uncover Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities in DeepSeek and Claude AI
From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code
Key electricity distributor in Romania warns of ‘cyber attack in progress’
Not All Roads Lead to PWN2OWN: Hardware Hacking (Part 1)
BadRAM:Practical Memory Aliasing Attacks on Trusted Execution Environments
Teaching an Old Framework New Tricks: The Dangers of Windows UI Automation
Threat Advisory: Oh No Cleo! Cleo Software Actively Being Exploited in the Wild
Intelligence and Information Warfare
New documentary details how governments use spyware to monitor citizens’ phones
US Senator announces new bill to secure telecom companies in wake of Chinese hacks
Lookout Discovers Two Russian Android Spyware Families from Gamaredon APT
Inside a New OT/IoT Cyberweapon: IOCONTROL
Cybersecurity
He Investigates the Internet’s Most Vicious Hackers—From a Secret Location
The December 2024 Security Update Review
WhatsApp fixes bug that let users bypass ‘View Once’ privacy feature
Yahoo cybersecurity team sees layoffs, outsourcing of ‘red team,’ under new CTO
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