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A cybersecurity company focused on critical infrastructure protection, cyber education and risk reduction.

Fort Washington, MD
Joined December 2015
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I just published Fighting for the Future: Why I Built a Maturity Framework for OT and AI medium.com/p/fighting-for-th…
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Discord.io has suffered from a recent data breach that revealed that the gaming community is the main target for a cyber-attack, because they often use highly performant machines and have resources that can be stolen. cybernews.com/tech/deal-with…
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A teenage member of the Lapsus$ hacking group (Arion Kurtaj) has been caught hacking Uber and fintech firm Revolut, and blackmailing the developers of the best-selling video games "Grand Theft Auto". cybernews.com/news/teen-hack…
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Permiso Security's p0 Labs team has tracked an attacker developing and deploying eight incremental iterations of their credential harvesting malware, while developing infrastructure for an upcoming campaign targeting various cloud services. thehackernews.com/2023/08/ag…
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A Syrian threat actor named "EVLF" has just been announced as the creator of the malware CypherRAT and CraxsRAT. These RATs are designed to allow an attacker to remotely control the victim's device's camera, location, and microphone. thehackernews.com/2023/08/sy…
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A new malicious toolset called "Spacecolon" is being released as part of an ongoing campaign to spread variants of the Scarab ransomware to their victims' organizations. thehackernews.com/2023/08/sp…
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Since the beginning of August 2023, there have been several reports of malicious npm packages targeting Roblox game developers. With the capability to deploy an open-source information stealer called "Luna Token Grabber". thehackernews.com/2023/08/ov…
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The popular language learning app (Duolingo) has had some of its user's data exposed. The data that was stolen and on sale back in January, is now available to purchase on the cybercrime marketplace "BreachForums". cybernews.com/security/hacke…
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A messaging and call platform called "Discord" has contacted 200 individuals who used the app that were impacted by a data breach, which led to unauthorized access to the account of an agent of a third-party service provider. cybernews.com/news/discord-d…
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A major security flaw has been disclosed in the WinRAR utility that could potentially be exploited by hackers to receive remote code execution on Windows systems. thehackernews.com/2023/08/ne…
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