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US Accuses Russia of Disinformation Plot to Justify Invasion of Ukraine The United States has accused Russia of a disinformation plot to serve as a pretext to an invasion of Ukraine. This would be a video purporting to show a Ukrainian attack on Russian territory or against Russian-speaking people in Eastern Ukraine. According to the…

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NFT Wash Trading Made Scammers at Least $9m in 2021 Cyber-criminals are making and laundering millions through non-fungible tokens (NFTs), according to new data from Chainalysis. NFTs are technically unique records on a blockchain that are each linked to a piece of digital content. They can be minted and sold by the content creator to investors,…

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The problems cybersecurity startups attempt to solve are often a bit ahead of the mainstream. They can move faster than most established companies to fill gaps or emerging needs. Startups can often innovative faster because they are unfettered by an installed base. The downside, of course, is that startups often lack resources and maturity. It’s…

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Cyber-Attacks Hobble Some of Europe’s Largest Ports Oil terminals in some of Europe’s biggest ports appear to have been disrupted by ransomware, according to reports. A broker in the region told AFP that the attacks are disrupting the oil supply chain. “There was a cyber-attack at various terminals, quite some terminals are disrupted,” Jelle Vreeman, senior broker…

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Trustpilot Set to Sue Firms That Solicit Fake Reviews Trustpilot said today that it is planning legal action against businesses involved in soliciting fraudulent reviews on its site. The Danish consumer reviews platform said it was forced to remove over two million fake reviews in 2020 alone, accounting for nearly 6% of those submitted to…

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The popular NPM JavaScript package manager and registry has been hit with an influx of malicious packages, the most harmful of which are related to data theft, crypto mining, botnets, and remote code execution, according to research from security company WhiteSource. WhiteSource’s automated malware detection platform, WhiteSource Diffend, detected a total of 1,300 malicious packages…

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If you received a link to LinkedIn.com via email, SMS or instant message, would you click it? Spammers, phishers and other ne’er-do-wells are hoping you will, because they’ve long taken advantage of a marketing feature on the business networking site which lets them create a LinkedIn.com link that bounces your browser to other websites, such…

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Google has announced it’s adding Python to the languages supported by one of its open-source projects designed to bolster privacy on the internet. The project includes a library and tools for using differential privacy, a technology designed to preserve an individual’s privacy in large data sets. “Previously, our differential privacy library was available in three…

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Education Provider Infosec Announces New Cybersecurity Scholarships Cybersecurity education provider Infosec Institute is offering scholarships to 15 individuals from underrepresented groups in the cybersecurity industry.  The $225k in scholarship opportunities will be meted out to veterans, people who identify as BIPOC, students, women who are actively pursuing a career in cybersecurity and members of the LGBTQI+ communities.…

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Researchers have come across a previously undocumented Trojan used by an APT group of Iranian origin that has been targeting organizations in Israel but also other countries since last year with the intention of damaging their infrastructure. The group, tracked as Moses Staff by researchers from security firm Cybereason, has been operating since at least…

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