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2022-02-22 17:48:04 Hackers took advantage of smart contract upgrade process on the OpenSea NFT marketplace to conduct a phishing attack against its users, resulting in the theft of approximately $1.7 million worth of virtual assets.

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2022-02-22 11:12:48 Chinese APT10 state-sponsored hackers carried out a sophisticated organized supply-chain attack on Taiwan's financial and securities trading sector.

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2022-02-22 10:25:12 Hackers are exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet-faced Microsoft SQL servers that to backdoor them using the Cobalt Strike hacking tool.

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2022-02-21 19:13:35 Researchers discover a new Android banking malware — dubbed "Xenomorph" — that spreads via apps on the Google Play Store and is designed to target customers of dozens of European banks.

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2022-02-21 17:12:06 Researchers uncover details of a recent cyberattack that targeted Iranian State Broadcaster IRIB with an unidentified destructive wiper malware.

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2022-02-21 12:33:37 Hackers are using infected Android devices to register mass disposable accounts that can be abused by cybercriminals to create phone-verified accounts for fraud and other criminal activities.

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2022-02-20 09:13:20 Researchers retrieve the master key to unlock files locked by the Hive ransomware by exploiting a vulnerability in its encryption algorithm.

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2022-02-19 10:39:30 The U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA publishes a repository of free tools and services to help organizations detect, mitigate, and respond effectively to malicious attacks.

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2022-02-19 09:32:39 WordPress pushes patch for a new high-severity vulnerability in UpdraftPlus, a popular backup plugin with over 3 million active installations, which can be weaponized to download affected sites private data.

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2022-02-18 15:34:43 Microsoft warns of emerging 'Ice Phishing' threats targeting Web3, blockchain, DeFi, smart contracts and other decentralized technologies.

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