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  1. Russian Hackers Try to Bypass ChatGPT's Restrictions For Malicious Purposes

    Hackers discussed how to use stolen payment cards and bypass geo controls and SMS limitations

  2. Cisco Warns of Critical Vulnerability in End-of-Life Routers

    Cisco did not release updates to address the vulnerabilities and no workarounds address them

  3. Royal Mail's Attackers Linked to Russia-Backed LockBit

    The ransomware gang allegedly used its latest encryptor, ‘Black,’ which borrows parts of the late Black Matter group’s encryptor

  4. Euro Police Bust Multimillion-Dollar Crypto Fraud Gang

    Criminal network may have made hundreds of millions from scams

  5. Illegal Crypto Transaction Volumes Hit All-Time High

    Sanctioned entities accounted for the largest volume

  6. Millions of Insurance Customers Compromised Via Supplier

    Aflac and Zurich reveal major breaches this week

  7. The Guardian Confirms UK Staff Data Was Accessed in Ransomware Attack

    The updates come from The Guardian's CEO Anna Bateson and its editor-in-chief Katharine Viner

  8. Telegram Bot Abuse For Phishing Increased By 800% in 2022

    The growth is associated with using HTML attachments as a delivery method in credential phishing

  9. Cyber-Threat Actors Tailoring Attacks to Key Sectors

    Darktrace’s latest report analyses findings from the energy, retail and healthcare sectors

  10. Google Chrome 'SymStealer' Vulnerability Could Affect 2.5 Billion Users

    The warning comes from Imperva's security researcher Ron Masas

  11. Quarter of UK SMBs Hit by Ransomware in 2022

    War in Ukraine is making firms more anxious

  12. Twitter: Leak of 200 Million Accounts Not Due to Historic Bug

    Social media firm claims its systems were not compromised

  13. Royal Mail Halts International Deliveries After Cyber-Incident

    It's still unclear whether customer data has been compromised

  14. New APT Dark Pink Hits Asia-Pacific, Europe With Spear Phishing Tactics

    The group began operations as early as mid-2021, but its activity increased in mid-to-late 2022

  15. Multiple Danish Banks Disrupted By DDoS Cyber-Attack

    The attack also affected IT financial industry solutions developer Bankdata

  16. Sensitive Files From San Francisco Transit Police Allegedly Leaked

    The leaked files include some 120,000 files, with specific allegations of child abuse

  17. Customer and Employee Data the Top Prize for Hackers – Imperva

    Customer and employee data accounts for almost half all stolen data while credit cards and password see a decline

  18. Applications Five Years or Older Likely to have Security Flaws

    Veracode’s 2023 State of Software Security Report is focused on flaw introduction

  19. Over 100 CVEs Addressed in First Patch Tuesday of 2023

    Microsoft's January Patch Tuesday resolved over 100 CVEs, including an actively exploited zero day

  20. US Supreme Court Allows WhatsApp to Sue NSO Group

    WhatsApp can now sue for damages ensued by the installation of the Pegasus spyware

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