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New Cyber Threat Targets Azerbaijan and Israel Diplomats, Stealing Sensitive Data

New Cyber Threat Targets Azerbaijan and Israel Diplomats, Stealing Sensitive Data

Aug 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Data Theft A previously unknown threat actor has been attributed to a spate of attacks targeting Azerbaijan and Israel with an aim to steal sensitive data. The attack campaign,… 

New Gafgyt Botnet Variant Targets Weak SSH Passwords for GPU Crypto Mining

New Gafgyt Botnet Variant Targets Weak SSH Passwords for GPU Crypto Mining

Aug 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet that’s targeting machines with weak SSH passwords to ultimately mine cryptocurrency on compromised instances using their GPU… 

Trump campaign hack-and-leak appears like a rerun of 2016. This time, media outlets are responding differently

Trump campaign hack-and-leak appears like a rerun of 2016. This time, media outlets are responding differently

This weekend, Politico dropped a news bombshell: A person who only goes by “Robert” had shared with the news organization documents allegedly stolen from the Donald Trump presidential campaign.  Since then, we have learned that…