security breaches
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A Hacker Group Has Been Framing People for Crimes They Didn’t Commit
For at least a decade, a shadowy hacker group has been targeting people throughout India, sometimes using its digital powers to plant fabricated evidence of criminal activity on their devices. That phony evidence has, in turn, often provided a pretext for the victims’ arrest.
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Hackers Have Been Sending Malware-Filled USB Sticks to U.S. Companies Disguised as Presents
Using friendly-looking USB sticks as a vector for malware distribution is a trick as old as the internet itself and, apparently, it’s still quite popular with the criminals.
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NASA Denies It Used the Doomed Log4j in Its Mars Ingenuity Helicopter
Did log4j, the buggy software utility from hell, get NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter hacked? The answer is: Nope — according to NASA, it doesn’t even use the doomed tool.
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Thousands of AT&T Subscribers Infected With Data-Pilfering Malware, Researchers Say
Unpatched, years-old vulnerabilities in networking devices have allowed a noxious malware to infect thousands of AT&T customers in the U.S., a new report from a Chinese cybersecurity company claims. The malware basically functions as a backdoor, one that could allow an attacker to penetrate networks, steal data, and other unsavoury activity.