The Internet Archive is a website vital in the preservation of digital information, and recently it was attacked on two separate occasions. Here's what went down.

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Ever receive a weird wrong number text or match with someone on a dating site who starts talking about crypto? It may be part of a long term scam meant to drain you of as much money as you're willing to part with to make a big investment. Once it seems too good to be true and you go to withdraw your earnings, suddenly you realize you've lost it all.

Cars are just big computers now, and that means they are vulnerable to exploits that could allow a concerning amount of control over them. Security researchers discovered a vulnerability in the Kia dealer portal that could allow a hacker remote control over millions of cars made after 2013.

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The Tor network allows for anonymous connections to unindexed search engines, including to online criminal services. Recently though, German authorities claimed to have de-anonymized a user using Tor and made an arrest. Has Tor finally been cracked, or is this a scare tactic to instill fear in threat actors?

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YubiKeys are physical authentication devices that have a lot of flexibility and are compatible with just about every service, but as it turns out if you know a lot about math and electronics you can uncover the private keys and clone the device!

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The city of Columbus, Ohio had a data breach occur in July. According to the mayor, the information leaked was nothing important to hackers. A security researcher proved that this was not the case, that the data was incredibly sensitive. In response, the city sued him.

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Using native Windows tools rather than custom malware is becoming a better technique of pulling off attacks while remaining under the radar. Qilin was caught doing just this to steal credentials right from the Chrome web browser.

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Antimalware solutions like EDR are meant to keep a careful watch on our systems to ensure they are protected from even sneaky threats. But what happens when malware can take out an EDR solution before it is spotted?

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Often times we can reduce our risk to cyber crime by being careful about the websites we sign up for, but what if someone has our data that we never consented to giving them and ends up being breached? Just that happened, with a company you've probably never heard of.

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Ransomware threat actors are one of the biggest modern threats, and things will only ramp up when threat actors see just how much an organization is willing to pay to have their data back. Recently it was uncovered that a covert ransomware group quietly received the largest payout ever recorded in ransomware history.

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