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Chipmakers warn of new speculative execution bugs
AMD, Arm, and Intel each published advisories about newly discovered ways to bypass hardware-based protections for speculative execution...
Google to purchase cybersecurity firm Mandiant for $5.4 billion
Google has entered into an agreement to acquire Mandiant in a whopping, all-cash deal worth $5.4...
Leaked Nvidia data used in malware
Last week we covered that the extortion group Lapsus$ accessed Nvidia’s systems and stole proprietary data as well as...
Charities and NGOs that provide support to Ukraine hit by malware
The report comes from Amazon, who is crediting the attacks to state-sponsored hackers while...
Cyberattack attempts on Ukraine surge tenfold
According to WordPress security specialists at Wordfence, Russia-supporting threat actors have compromised at least 30 Ukrainian universities as part...
Conti and Trickbot code leaks
We previously covered the pro-Ukranian member of the Conti ransomware gang who leaked the group's chat logs as a result...
Russia-Ukraine War update
Tech giants continue to unite to take action in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Apple announced that it is pausing all...
Toyota suspends Japanese production due to cyberattack
Toyota suspended all of its 14 factories in Japan due to what a spokesperson called a "supplier system...
Ukraine recruits volunteer IT army to hack list of Russian entities
The entities on the list of 31 include Russian critical infrastructure, government agencies, banks,...
Cyberattacks accompany Russian military assault on Ukraine
On Thursday, the websites belonging to the Ukraine ministry of defence, its foreign ministry and its interior ministry...
Samsung shipped devices with flawed encryption
In a paper set to be presented at the Real World Crypto and USENIX Security summit, researchers showed that...
IRS is allowing taxpayers to opt out of facial recognition
After drawing criticism from both parties in Congress and from privacy advocates, the IRS has...
Researches find decryption for Hive ransomware
A research paper from the Kookmin University of Seoul documented a vulnerability in Hive’s ransomware encryption, allowing for the...
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