Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Also: North Korean Cryptocurrency Activity, Ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Trial In the latest weekly update, Ari Redbord, head of Legal and Government Affairs at TRM Labs, joined ISMG editors to discuss how Hamas is using crypto to finance operations, the latest illicit activities by North Korean actors, and how the trial of FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried could impact the industry.
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Toronto, Ontario – October 12, 2023 – Nerds On Site Inc. (CSE: NERD), a cybersecurity and mobile IT solutions company servicing the small and medium enterprise (SME) marketplace in Canada and the U.S., has developed SME Edge , a complete cybersecurity package that provides small-to-medium businesses comprehensive protection from the threat of data breaches.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Web Servers Need Patching; Google, Amazon, Cloudflare See Massive DDoS Attacks Attackers have been actively exploiting vulnerabilities in the HTTP/2 protocol via so-called rapid request attacks, which Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare and Google report have led to record-breaking distributed-denial-of-service attacks. Experts recommend immediate patching or mitigation.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Ransomlooker monitors ransomware groups’ extortion sites and delivers consolidated feeds of their claims worldwide. Cybernews presented Ransomlooker , a tool to monitor ransomware groups’ extortion sites and delivers consolidated feeds of their claims worldwide. The researchers have created the tool to help cybersecurity experts in their daily jobs by providing real-time updates and actionable insights.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Also: FTX Trial, Voyager Capital Settles With US FTC and Money Laundering and Hacks This week: Crackdown on Hamas cryptocurrency accounts, more revelations from the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried and Voyager Capital settles with the U.S. FTC but former CEO Stephen Ehrlich does not. Also: Elliptic said hackers laundered $7 billion and HTX hacker returned the stolen funds for a "bounty.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 12, 2023
CISA's Brandon Wales Warns of Disruptive Chinese Attacks on Critical Infrastructure A top U.S. cybersecurity official said Israel has avoided significant cyberattacks since Hamas' invasion Saturday but said that wouldn't necessarily be America's experience should armed conflict break out with China. "There have not been significant cyberattacks as of right now," said Brandon Wales.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 12, 2023
In September more than 17,000 WordPress websites have been compromised by the Balada Injector malware. Sucuri researchers reported that more than 17,000 WordPress websites have been compromised in September with the Balada Injector. The researchers noticed that the number of Balada Injector infections has doubled compared with August. The Balada injector is a malware family that has been active since 2017.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Also: Microsoft Will Bid VBSript Goodbye and A Novel Magecart Attack This week: Google began phasing out passwords, Microsoft will bid VBSript goodbye, payment card information exposed in Air Europa hack, Magecart attack uses sneaky 404 page tactic, U.S. voter registration data stolen from District of Columbia and Volex reports a cyberattack.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 12, 2023
This post analyzed the numerous phishing campaigns targeting users and organizations in Italy. Phishing is a ploy to trick users into revealing personal or financial information through an e-mail, Web site, and even through instant messaging. Particularly very popular is so-called brand phishing, which occurs when criminals impersonate the official website of a well-known brand of a public or private entity using a domain name, URL, logos and graphics similar to the original website: This is a r
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Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Progress Software Says Investigation Is Fact-Finding Inquiry The zero day that fueled a mass attack on Progress Software's MOVEit file transfer software is now the vulnerability fueling a flotilla of attorneys, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing listing pending litigation and governmental investigations.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Researchers observed a new Magecart web skimming campaign changing the websites’ default 404 error page to steal credit cards. Researchers from the Akamai Security Intelligence Group uncovered a Magecart web skimming campaign that is manipulating the website’s default 404 error page to hide malicious code. The attacks are targeting a large number of Magento and WooCommerce websites, including large organizations in the food and retail industries. “In this campaign, all the victim web
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 12, 2023
The violent surprise attack on Israel by Hamas and the region's escalating war spotlights the critical importance of situational awareness, and especially for healthcare organizations that rely on medical or tech products from Israeli technology firms, said Denise Anderson, president of the H-ISAC.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Apple released versions iOS 16.7.1 and iPadOS 16.7.1 to address the CVE-2023-42824 vulnerability that has been actively exploited in attacks. Apple has released iOS 16.7.1 and iPadOS 16.7.1 to address the recently disclosed zero-day CVE-2023-42824. The vulnerability is a privilege escalation issue that resides in the Kernel, it was addressed with improved checks.
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Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 12, 2023
This is a fun challenge: The NIST elliptic curves that power much of modern cryptography were generated in the late ’90s by hashing seeds provided by the NSA. How were the seeds generated? Rumor has it that they are in turn hashes of English sentences, but the person who picked them, Dr. Jerry Solinas, passed away in early 2023 leaving behind a cryptographic mystery, some conspiracy theories, and an historical password cracking challenge.
Hunton Privacy
OCTOBER 12, 2023
On October 5, 2023, Blackbaud Inc., a software provider for the philanthropy, healthcare, and education sectors, has resolved claims that the District of Columbia and 49 U.S. states raised. The claims stem from a ransomware attack that impacted Blackbaud in 2020. The company was affected by a ransomware attack that exposed user information to unauthorized third parties.
Collibra
OCTOBER 12, 2023
In the vast and ever-changing world of Identity & Access Management, enterprises face the challenge of navigating through complex waters to effectively manage user identities and their access. They are constantly in search of a robust solution – a compass that can guide them through the tumultuous seas. This blog explores the significance of the System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) capability we recently delivered as a public beta.
KnowBe4
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Credential harvesting has become a business in and of itself within the cybercrime economy. New insight from Microsoft details the types of attacks your organization should watch out for.
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Evasive malware disguised as a caching plugin allows attackers to create an admin account on a WordPress site, then take over and monetize sites at the expense of legitimate SEO and user privacy.
KnowBe4
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Even though there are new attack types for cybercriminals, they are still leveraging old-school attack vectors. Why? Because they still work.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Government security processes are often viewed as tedious and burdensome — but applying the lessons learned from them is imperative for private industry to counter a nation-state threat.
KnowBe4
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Threat actors launched 156,000 business email compromise (BEC) attempts per day between April 2022 and April 2023, according to Microsoft’s latest Digital Defense Report. While most of these attempts go unanswered, criminals can receive massive payouts when they succeed.
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The Guardian Data Protection
OCTOBER 12, 2023
What is the contract for? Which firms are in the running? And why are there privacy concerns about the deal? The biggest IT contract in the history of NHS England could be awarded as soon as next week, with the frontrunner currently the controversial US tech firm Palantir. The £480m contract for the “federated data platform” has been under consideration for months, and was due to be announced in September.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Scammers have targeted the vaunted blue check marks on the platform formerly known as Twitter, smearing individuals and brands alike.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Whoever looted FTX on the day of its bankruptcy has now moved the stolen money through a long string of intermediaries—including a service owned by FTX itself.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Popular malware like QakBot and DarkGate rely on VBScript, which dates back to 1996 — but their days are numbered now that Microsoft is finally deprecating the Windows programming. language.
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KnowBe4
OCTOBER 12, 2023
As attackers leave little-to-no traces of their attack patterns, more ransomware groups are shifting from automated attacks to manual attacks.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Cryptocurrency apps were the most high risk for exposing sensitive information, a reverse-engineering study shows.
KnowBe4
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Roborock's online storefronts have been used for cybercrime schemes in the past, and it seems attackers are continuing to create fake online shops. After all, the Chinese-originated robot vacuum cleaner brand only sells through resellers in Germany.
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