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US Education Dept Urged to Boost K-12 Schools’ Ransomware Defenses The US Department of Education and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were urged this week to more aggressively strengthen cybersecurity protections at K-12 schools across the nation to keep up with a massive wave of attacks. The call for action comes from US Senators Maggie Hassan
FBI System Hacked to Email ‘urgent’ Warning About Fake Cyberattacks The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) email servers were hacked to distribute spam email impersonating FBI warnings that the recipients’ network was breached and data was stolen. The emails pretended to warn about a “sophisticated chain attack” from an advanced threat actor known, who they
Fake End-to-end Encrypted Chat App Distributes Android Spyware The GravityRAT remote access trojan is being distributed in the wild again, this time under the guise of an end-to-end encrypted chat application called SoSafe Chat. This particular RAT (remote access trojan) targets predominately Indian users, being distributed by Pakistani actors. The telemetry data on the most recent campaign
Surveillance Firm Pays $1 Million Fine After ‘spy van’ Scandal The Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection in Cyprus has collected a $1 million fine from intelligence company WiSpear for gathering mobile data from various individuals arriving at the airport in Larnaca. While this is just an administrative fine under the European Union’s