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SecurityWeek reports that the imminent shutdown of the Alexa Top Sites and Web Information Service APIs on Dec. 15 following the retirement of Alexa.com at the beginning of the month is a major hit for cybersecurity.

Most organizations have been prioritizing automation, silicon-level security, cloud migration, and education and training in security innovation, with the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on work processes being the primary driver for security strategy changes, VentureBeat reports.

Nine security flaws impacting QNAP NAS devices, one of which is critical and could be abused to facilitate system takeovers, have been patched, according to The Hacker News.

BleepingComputer reports that threat actors have hacked into a subdomain of automaker Ferrari to launch a scam promoting a fake NFT collection.

The U.S. Treasury Department has introduced sanctions on cryptocurrency mixer Blender.io after helping support North Korea's "malicious cyber activities and money-laundering of stolen virtual currency," with the sanctions being the first among virtual currency mixers, The Verge reports.

ZDNet reports that the North Korean state-sponsored hacking group Lazarus has not only been engaging in social engineering attacks on LinkedIn but also targeting U.S. defense contractors through WhatsApp and deploying the malicious LCPDot downloader.

U.S. agricultural machinery manufacturer AGCO had some of its production facilities affected by a ransomware attack, reports BleepingComputer.