CREST publishes guide for enhancing cyber resilience in developing countries
International information security accreditation and certification body CREST has published a new guide to fostering financial sector cyber resilience in developing countries. The nonprofit’s Resilience in Developing Countries paper forms part of its work in encouraging greater cyber readiness and resilience in emerging nations to help protect key industries from cyberattacks.
The guide outlines that, while increased financial inclusion is a global goal, the less privileged remain highly susceptible to cyberthreats. It also describes the need for appropriate, multi-party cyber resilience testing to ensure better cyber safety in developing nations, along with advice for governing authorities.
Research on AI in Adversarial Settings
New research: “Achilles Heels for AGI/ASI via Decision Theoretic Adversaries“: As progress in AI continues to advance, it is important
OCR Labs exposes its systems, jeopardizing major banking clients
A digital identification tool provided by OCR Labs to major banks and government agencies leaked sensitive credentials, putting clients at severe risk. The Cybernews research team discovered a misconfiguration in the OCR Labs system that exposed sensitive data. The company is a leading provider of digital ID verification tools, with its IDkit tool being used […]
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Everything You Need To Know About Using A VPN
Read on to find out how VPNs protect your data, as well as their other benefits. If you have spent any time on the internet over the past few years, you have probably heard or read about a VPN. Advertised as a way to access foreign Netflix or get deals on online shopping, a VPNs […]
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Threat Report Portugal: Q3 & Q4 2022
The Threat Report Portugal: H2 2022 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from July to December, H2, 2022. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open-sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-Informática. This feed is based on automatic searches and is supported by a healthy […]
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India Says It Won’t Regulate AI

India planted its flag in the sand of the global artificial intelligence race on Tuesday as a major agency said the government has no plans to regulate the technology.
Analyzing attacks conducted by North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO APT group
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns of a North Korea-linked cyberespionage group tracked as ARCHIPELAGO. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning of the North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO group that is targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea, the US and elsewhere. Google experts are tracking ARCHIPELAGO since […]
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Typhon Info-Stealing Malware Comes Back Harder to Detect
Threat actors upgraded Typhon info-stealer to a version that has improved evading features against analysis and anti-virtualization mechanisms. The new Typhon Reborn V2 malware is currently advertised on a dark web forum. Typhon was first discovered in August 2022 and at the moment the malware was a mix of info-stealer, keylogger, and crypto-miner. At first, […]
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FBI Cracks Down on Genesis Market: 119 Arrested in Cybercrime Crackdown
Coinciding with the infrastructure seizure, the major crackdown, which involved authorities from 17 countries, culminated in 119 arrests and 208 property searches in