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2022-01-31 09:46:12 Researchers have found a way to use natural silk fibers from domesticated silkworms as a Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) to generate secure and unique identifiers for strong authentication (e.g., cryptographic keys).

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2022-01-31 09:10:59 Apple pays a $100,500 bug bounty to a hacker who found a way to remotely hack the MacBook's webcam.

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2022-01-31 08:20:32 DeepDotWeb news site operator has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for money laundering and advertising illegal darknet marketplaces.

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2022-01-28 14:15:08 Microsoft warns of a large-scale, multi-stage phishing campaign that uses stolen credentials to register rouge devices on a victim's network to further propagate spam emails and increase the infection pool.

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2022-01-28 12:28:37 North Korean hackers from the Lazarus group are using Windows Update Service to infect computers with malware and GitHub as a command-and-control server.

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2022-01-28 12:02:59 North Korean hackers are back with a stealthier version of their KONNI RAT malware.

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2022-01-28 08:24:34 Microsoft fended off a record-breaking DDoS attack that hit Azure customers at a peak of 3.47 terabits per second, and two others that topped 2.4 terabits per second.

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2022-01-28 07:59:51 QNAP warns of DeadBolt ransomware targeting Internet-facing network-attached storage (NAS) appliances and routers.

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2022-01-27 15:38:48 Hackers compromise hundreds of WordPress websites to distribute Chaes banking trojan that hijacks victims' Chrome browsers with malicious extensions.

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2022-01-27 13:17:20 Researchers warn of widespread malware campaigns spreading FluBot and TeaBot trojans to Android devices.

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