intelligence gathering
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In the Tianfu Cup Hacking Competition, white hat hackers gained the highest control rights of iPhone 13
Introduction: The "Tianfu Cup" International Network Security Competition strives to become the world's No. 1 cracking competition and openly solicits contestants and projects for all security practitioners. Competitors register for events based on target event settings, and the competition sets awards for champion, runner-up, and third runner-up. Competition…
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Newly discovered Tomiris backdoor linked to hackers behind SolarWinds cyber attack
Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday disclosed a previously undocumented backdoor that may have been designed and developed by the Nobelium advanced persistent threat (APT) that supported last year's SolarWinds supply chain attack, adding...
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Sensitive personal information of 70 million AT&T customers sold on the black market
Last week, ShinyHunters posted a promotion for “AT&T Database + 70M (SSN/DOB)” on the popular darknet market RaidForums. Threat actors target 200,000…
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Critical Cosmos database vulnerability affects thousands of customers
Cloud infrastructure security company Wiz on Thursday revealed details of a now-fixed Azure Cosmos database vulnerability that could be exploited to grant any Azure user full administrator access to other customer database instances.…
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Hackers steal 100 million T-Mobile user data in retaliation for US
Latest News T-Mobile has confirmed that a data breach occurred. But at the same time, T-Mobile added that it was not yet able to determine the exact number of affected customers. The company said it has begun an in-depth technical review of the situation across the system to determine any...
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British education giant Pearson fined $1 million for covering up data breach
On August 16, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Pearson, a British transnational education publishing services company, had reached a settlement with allegations of improper handling of the disclosure process in the 2018 data breach. Education giant trains…
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Malvertising uses Cinobi Banking Trojan to target cryptocurrency users
A new social engineering-based malvertising campaign targeting Japan has been discovered delivering a malicious application that deploys a banking Trojan on infected Windows machines to steal credentials related to cryptocurrency accounts. Trend Micro researchers…