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Chinese APT Group Uses New Tradecraft to Live Off the Land

Data Breach Today

Targeted organizations include those in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, IT and education sectors.

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FritzFrog P2P Botnet is back and targets Healthcare, Education and Government Sectors

Security Affairs

FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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News alert: MxD roundtable with White House officials highlights cybersecurity workforce needs

The Last Watchdog

21, 2023 — MxD, the Digital Manufacturing and Cybersecurity Institute, today hosted a roundtable discussion with the White House Office of the National Cyber Director. Each participating organization is committed to developing cyber skills and programs to train the workforce across a wide range of industries, including manufacturing.

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Money Message ransomware group claims to have hacked IT giant MSI

Security Affairs

Micro-Star International AKA MSI designs, manufactures, and sells motherboards and graphics cards for customers in the United States, Canada, and internationally. Micro-Star International AKA MSI designs, manufactures, and sells motherboards and graphics cards for customers in the United States, Canada, and internationally.

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News alert: Flexxon welcomes distinguished industry veteran Ravi Agarwal to its advisory board

The Last Watchdog

Agarwal An active contributor to the community, Mr Agarwal spearheaded a mentorship program for under-privileged college students in partnership with the Ministry of Education in Singapore. Singapore, Oct. In his capacity of Intel’s Director of Marketing, he conceived and launched the “intel in it” branding initiative in Japan.

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City of Dallas shut down IT services after ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The City of Dallas, Texas, was hit by a ransomware attack that forced it to shut down some of its IT systems. The IT systems at the City of Dallas, Texas, have been targeted by a ransomware attack. To prevent the threat from spreading within the network, the City has shut down the impacted IT systems. ” reported the website of Fox4News.

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MY TAKE: New tech standards, like ‘Matter’ and ‘BIMI,’ point the way to secure interoperability

The Last Watchdog

This is precisely what the consortium of software companies and device manufacturers, led Google, Amazon and Apple, set out to achieve when Matter was conceived four years ago. It’s important that as consumers are shopping for these smart home devices that they learn to recognize the Matter trademark so that they can make educated decisions.”

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