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Portland’s second-largest accounting firm merges with Chicago partner
The merger, expected for at least a week, includes private equity investment and a name change for the Pacific Northwest firm.
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U.S. Reps. Dexter, Garcia, Frost, Ansari Arrive in El Salvador to Pressure Trump Administration To Abide By Supreme Court Order And Facilitate Return of Wrongly Deported Maryland Man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia
San Salvador, El Salvador – Today, Monday, April 21, U.S. Representatives Maxine Dexter, Robert Garcia, Maxwell Frost, and Yassamin Ansari arrived in El Salvador to pressure the Trump Administration to abide by a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return…
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Providence institutes hiring freeze amid shifting economic conditions
Just as the seven-state system was getting costs in line with revenue, economic conditions “took a sudden turn.”
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Port of Portland revokes DEI policy amid funding threat
Port Executive Director Curtis Robinhold said it faced the potential loss of $145 million in federal funding.
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Kimsuky Exploits BlueKeep RDP Vulnerability to Breach Systems in South Korea and Japan
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious campaign related to the North Korean state-sponsored threat actor known as Kimsuky that exploits a now-patched vulnerability impacting Microsoft Remote Desktop Services to gain initial access. The activity has been named Larva-24005 by the AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC). “In some systems, initial access was gained through
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Intel invests billions in US chip manufacturing, aims to create 30,000 jobs across four states
Intel’s multibillion-dollar investment in U.S. chip manufacturing promises thousands of new jobs.
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SuperCard X Android Malware Enables Contactless ATM and PoS Fraud via NFC Relay Attacks
A new Android malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform named SuperCard X can facilitate near-field communication (NFC) relay attacks, enabling cybercriminals to conduct fraudulent cashouts. The active campaign is targeting customers of banking institutions and card issuers in Italy with an aim to compromise payment card data, fraud prevention firm Cleafy said in an analysis. There is evidence…
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5 Reasons Device Management Isn’t Device Trust
The problem is simple: all breaches start with initial access, and initial access comes down to two primary attack vectors – credentials and devices. This is not news; every report you can find on the threat landscape depicts the same picture. The solution is more complex. For this article, we’ll focus on the device threat…
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Hackers Abuse Russian Bulletproof Host Proton66 for Global Attacks and Malware Delivery
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a surge in “mass scanning, credential brute-forcing, and exploitation attempts” originating from IP addresses associated with a Russian bulletproof hosting service provider named Proton66. The activity, detected since January 8, 2025, targeted organizations worldwide, according to a two-part analysis published by Trustwave SpiderLabs last week. “Net
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APT29 Deploys GRAPELOADER Malware Targeting European Diplomats Through Wine-Tasting Lures
The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT29 has been linked to an advanced phishing campaign that’s targeting diplomatic entities across Europe with a new variant of WINELOADER and a previously unreported malware loader codenamed GRAPELOADER. “While the improved WINELOADER variant is still a modular backdoor used in later stages, GRAPELOADER is a newly observed…
