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It’s phishing time! How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets

🤷‍♀️ What now?: Keep your vigilance up and keep Hexagon Center as a resource to turn to when you smell something fishy.

Meanwhile … Building (another layer of) national security infrastructure

📰 Headline Highlights

• Chinese hackers breach more US telecoms via unpatched Cisco routers

• Fintech giant Finastra notifies victims of October data breach

• S Korea removes Deepseek from app stores over privacy concerns

• US newspaper publisher uses linguistic gymnastics to avoid saying its outage was due to ransomware

• Amazon is shutting down its app store on Android

In other news, Chase will soon block Zelle payments to sellers on social media

MUST READ: New FrigidStealer macOS Malware Distributed as Fake Browser Update

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Glossary/Legend:

• Phishing - a cybercrime that involves tricking people into giving away sensitive information.

• Cyberattack - A malicious attempt to gain unauthorized access to a computer system, network, or device. The goal of a cyberattack is to disrupt or damage the target, or to steal data, intellectual property, or money.

• Ransomware - A type of malware that locks or encrypts a victim's files and demands a ransom payment to unlock and decrypt them. Ransomware can infect a variety of devices, including computers, smartphones, printers, and more.

• Password manager - a software application that allows users to securely store, generate, and manage their online login credentials (passwords and usernames) across different websites and applications, typically requiring only one "master password" to access all stored information, promoting strong password hygiene by creating unique passwords for each site and automatically filling them in when needed.

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