Data Breach Today
AUGUST 7, 2023
Information From 2004 to 2020 Exposed for High School Students, Teachers and Others Colorado's Department of Higher Education is warning that it suffered a ransomware attack in June, in which attackers stole personal data on current and past students and teachers, dating from 2004 to 2020. While the state has yet to wrap its probe, the victim count could be massive.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 7, 2023
LAS VEGAS — Penetration testing, traditionally, gave businesses a nice, pretty picture of their network security posture — at a given point in time. Related: Going on the security offensive Such snapshots proved useful for building audit trails, particularly for companies in heavily regulated industries. However, manual pentests never really were very effective at shining a light on emerging cyber exposures of the moment.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 7, 2023
Scammers Used Malware and Spoofed Domain Name to Trick UK Financial Services Firm A Nigerian national has pleaded guilty to participating in a business email compromise scheme that stole $1.25 million from a Boston investment firm. Perpetrators used malware to intercept an employee's emails as well as spoofed email accounts to trick the employee's London financial services firm.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 7, 2023
We all get spam emails, and while it’s annoying, it’s not usually anything to worry about. However, getting a huge influx of spam at once is a warning sign. People suddenly getting a lot of spam emails may be the target of a sophisticated cyber-attack. Related: How AI can relieve security pros What causes spam emails? Someone leaking, stealing or selling account information can cause a sudden influx of spam emails.
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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
AUGUST 7, 2023
Cybercrime Group Defrauded Nearly 200,000 Euros Spanish police estimate that a group that mainly targeted ATMs of Spanish national banks using cloned payment cards had fraudulently pocketed nearly 196,000 euros. Authorities arrested three members of the group Sunday in the Spanish coastal city of Valencia.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 7, 2023
Vulnerability Could Allow Attackers to Read, Delete or Upload Arbitrary Files A recently identified security vulnerability in PaperCut print management software holds the potential for high-severity outcomes and could let unauthorized hackers run code remotely. The software is used in a wide array of environments, including large printer fleets supporting over 100,000 users.
IT Governance
AUGUST 7, 2023
Welcome to our August 2023 catches of the month feature, in which we explore the latest phishing scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. This month, we have a pair of stories about Microsoft. The first looks at an alarming rise in phishing scams that impersonate the tech firm, while the second discusses a new security feature that’s designed to protect users from password compromise.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 7, 2023
New Ransomware Group Branches Out, Hits Multiple Hospitals, Provider Networks Authorities are sounding the alarm about double-extortion attacks against healthcare and public health sector organizations by a relatively new ransomware-as-a-service group, Rhysida, which until recently had mainly focused on entities in other industries.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 7, 2023
Zoom changed its terms of service requiring users to allow AI to train on all their data without giving them an opt-out option. Zoom updated its terms of service and informed users that it will train its artificial intelligence models using some of its data. The update will be effective as of July 27, and accepting the ToS users will give Zoom the right to utilize some aspects of customer data for training its AI models.
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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.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 7, 2023
Staying one step ahead of cybercriminals is absolutely vital in today’s threat landscape. That's why we're thrilled to introduce PhishER Plus, a revolutionary product from KnowBe4 that takes your anti-phishing defense to a whole new level.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 7, 2023
Experts found 43 Android apps in Google Play with 2.5 million installs that displayed advertisements while a phone’s screen was off. Recently, researchers from McAfee’s Mobile Research Team discovered 43 Android apps in Google Play with 2.5 million installs that loaded advertisements while a phone’s screen was off. The experts pointed out that this behavior violates Google Play Developer policy , in impacts the advertisers who pay for Ads that will be never displayed to the users, a
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 7, 2023
A bunch of networks, including US Government networks , have been hacked by the Chinese. The hackers used forged authentication tokens to access user email, using a stolen Microsoft Azure account consumer signing key. Congress wants answers. The phrase “ negligent security practices ” is being tossed about—and with good reason. Master signing keys are not supposed to be left around, waiting to be stolen.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 7, 2023
The FBI is warning about cyber criminals masquerading as NFT developers to steal cryptocurrency and other digital assets. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning about cyber criminals posing as legitimate NFT developers in fraud schemes designed to target active users within the NFT community. The end goal is to steal cryptocurrency and other digital assets from the users.
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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.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 7, 2023
Cybercriminals are touting large language models that could help them with phishing or creating malware. But the AI chatbots could just be their own kind of scam.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 7, 2023
Two North Korea-linked APT groups compromised the infrastructure of the major Russian missile engineering firm NPO Mashinostroyeniya. Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne linked the compromise of the major Russian missile engineering firm NPO Mashinostroyeniya to two different North Korea-linked APT groups. NPO Mashinostroyeniya (JSC MIC Mashinostroyenia, NPO Mash) is a leading Russian manufacturer of missiles and military spacecraft.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 7, 2023
A recap of Q2 from Cisco Talos’ incident response services provides insight into exactly what kinds of attacks are being seen in the field, and what kinds of attacks you need to be protecting against.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 7, 2023
Since 2018, a dedicated team within Microsoft has attacked machine learning systems to make them safer. But with the public release of new generative AI tools, the field is already evolving.
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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.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 7, 2023
As traditional phishing attack attachment types like Office documents dwindle in use, threat actors look for new effective ways to use email as a delivery medium to launch an attack.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 7, 2023
Soon after Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022, sensors in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone reported radiation spikes. A researcher now believes he’s found evidence the data was manipulated.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 7, 2023
Many of us have received a phone call or other notification from a credit card company telling us that they’ve detected suspicious activity on our card. Was it us? Did we just spend $500 at that big box store up the road? No? Thank you; there’ll be no charge. Or, if that was you, then you need take no further action.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 7, 2023
Accenture's Cyber Threat Intelligence unit has observed a tenfold rise in Dark Web threat actors targeting macOS since 2019, and the trend is poised to continue.
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KnowBe4
AUGUST 7, 2023
Seeking very large paydays, Vendor Email Compromise (VEC) threat actors are finding out what works and repurposing their content and processes to increase chances of seeing a massive payout.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 7, 2023
Threat actors such as the operators of the Cl0p ransomware family increasingly exploit unknown and day-one vulnerabilities in their attacks.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 7, 2023
A few weeks ago GitHub posted on their blog of a recent security alert that should have any organization in the tech industry worried.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 7, 2023
Last week, the department uncovered a data breach that occurred back in June stemming from what it deems to be a cybersecurity ransomware incident.
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IG Guru
AUGUST 7, 2023
Check out the post on PMSNewswire. The post Vital Records Control Consolidates Digital Services Under New “VitalECM” Sub-Brand Name first appeared on IG GURU.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 7, 2023
The group continues to target SQL servers, adding the Remcos RAT, BatCloak, and Metasploit in an attack that shows advance obfuscation methods.
IBM Big Data Hub
AUGUST 7, 2023
CRM Connect, championed by TNC – The Nature Conservancy Centre (TNCC), India, offers valuable intelligence to farmers, agriculture sector leaders, and decision makers. Over 1,000 farmers are using this technology solution to eliminate crop residue burning, and by the end of this year, the teams are aiming to engage with 12,000 more farmers. Promoting sustainable agriculture in India In North India, not too far from the Himalayas, is Punjab.
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