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Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing Via SMS

January 16, 2025 0 Comments @chenlun, A Little Sunshine, csis security group, ezdrivema, FBI, ford merrill, IC3, imessage, Latest Warnings, lighthouse, massdot, north texas toll authority, rcs, secalliance, smishing, sms phishing, sunpass, the toll roads, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:18:48 +0000

Residents across the United States are being inundated with text messages purporting to come from toll road operators like E-ZPass, warning that recipients face fines if a delinquent toll fee remains unpaid. Researchers say the surge in SMS spam coincides with new features added to a popular commercial phishing kit sold in China that makes it simple to set up convincing lures spoofing toll road operators in multiple U.S. states.

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Gootloader inside out

January 16, 2025 0 Comments featured, gootkit, gootloader, hellodolly, jscript, malicious seo, malware, obfuscation, php, php shell, seo, threat research, Wordpress, yara

Credit to Author: Gabor Szappanos| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:00:02 +0000

Open-source intelligence reveals the server-side code of this pernicious SEO-driven malware – without needing a lawyer afterward

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Sophos ZTNA Updates

January 16, 2025 0 Comments Network, products & services, ztna

Credit to Author: Chris McCormack| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:25:20 +0000

New Let’s Encrypt and regional support.

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Avery had credit card skimmer stuck on its site for months

January 16, 2025 0 Comments avery, news, Privacy

Avery has confirmed its website was compromised by a credit card skimmer that potentially affected over 60,000 customers.

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Biden’s Cyber Ambassador Urges Trump Not to Cede Ground to Russia and China in Global Tech Fight

January 16, 2025 0 Comments politics / policy, Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / National Security, Security / Security News

Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:30:00 +0000

Nathaniel Fick, the ambassador for cyberspace and digital policy, has led US tech diplomacy amid a rising tide of pressure from authoritarian regimes. Will the Trump administration undo that work?

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GitHub’s Deepfake Porn Crackdown Still Isn’t Working

January 16, 2025 0 Comments Business, Security

Credit to Author: Lydia Morrish| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:02:58 +0000

Over a dozen programs used by creators of nonconsensual explicit images have evaded detection on the developer platform, WIRED has found.

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A New Jam-Packed Biden Executive Order Tackles Cybersecurity, AI, and More

January 16, 2025 0 Comments politics / policy, Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / National Security, Security / Security News

Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:30:00 +0000

US president Joe Biden just issued a 40-page executive order that aims to bolster federal cybersecurity protections, directs government use of AI—and takes a swipe at Microsoft’s dominance.

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