Data Breach Today
APRIL 15, 2024
Company Released a Hotfix to the Command Injection Vulnerability Firewall appliance manufacturer Palo Alto Networks rushed out a hotfix Friday to a command injection vulnerability present in its custom operating system after security researchers spotted a campaign to exploit the zero-day starting in March, likely from a state-backed threat actor.
Krebs on Security
APRIL 15, 2024
The U.S. government is warning that “smart locks” securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can be used to remotely open any of the locks. The lock’s maker Chirp Systems remains unresponsive, even though it was first notified about the critical weakness in March 2021. Meanwhile, Chirp’s parent company, RealPage, Inc. , is being sued by multiple U.S. states for allegedly colluding with landlords to illegally raise rents.
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AIIM
APRIL 16, 2024
Think about your organization for a moment. Is there any employee who doesn't collect, store, transform, analyze, and delete information? We all need information to be successful and help our organizations achieve better business outcomes.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 17, 2024
Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, a group with ties to the Kremlin’s Sandworm unit, is crossing lines even that notorious cyberwarfare unit wouldn’t dare to.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
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
APRIL 18, 2024
Experts See Groups Shoot Themselves in the Foot by Yet Again Swindling Affiliates Here's ransomware news to celebrate: The number of victims who opt to pay a ransom has dropped to a record low. Also, the operators of two major groups hit by law enforcement disruptions have each chosen to swindle their affiliates, sowing disaffection and driving away burned business partners.
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Security Affairs
APRIL 16, 2024
The PuTTY Secure Shell (SSH) and Telnet client are impacted by a critical vulnerability that could be exploited to recover private keys. PuTTY tools from 0.68 to 0.80 inclusive are affected by a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-31497 , that resides in the code that generates signatures from ECDSA private keys which use the NIST P521 curve.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 15, 2024
Microsoft has stumbled through a series of major cybersecurity failures over the past few years. Experts say the US government’s reliance on its systems means the company continues to get a free pass.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 17, 2024
Russian Cyber Sabotage Unit Sandworm Adopting Advanced Techniques, Mandiant Warns Russia's preeminent cyber sabotage unit presents "one of the widest and high severity cyber threats globally," warned Mandiant in a Wednesday report. Mandiant newly designated Sandworm as APT44 to differentiate it from another hacking unit it will still track as APT28.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 18, 2024
After the XZ Utils discovery, people have been examining other open-source projects. Surprising no one, the incident is not unique: The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious series of emails with similar messages, bearing different names and overlapping GitHub-associated emails. These emails implored OpenJS to take action to update one of its popular JavaScript projects to “address any critical vulnerabilities,” yet cited no specifics.
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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.
Security Affairs
APRIL 17, 2024
Threat actors are exploiting the CVE-2023-22518 flaw in Atlassian servers to deploy a Linux variant of Cerber (aka C3RB3R) ransomware. At the end of October 2023, Atlassian warned of a critical security flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-22518 (CVSS score 9.1), that affects all versions of Confluence Data Center and Server. The vulnerability is an improper authorization issue that can lead to significant data loss if exploited by an unauthenticated attacker.
Collibra
APRIL 15, 2024
Last week we wrapped up our annual Data Citizens conference. This conference brought together data leaders from around the world to share insights, network and imagine a brighter data future. The overarching theme of the conference was imagination and innovation — and this theme rang true throughout all of our mainstage presentations. In a time when AI is constantly challenging us, it is important to think fast and be adaptive so that we can innovate and grow in this dynamic environment.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 17, 2024
Experts See Surge in Attacks, Including in Russia, Using Leaked LockBit Code What do a German healthcare network, a Russian security company and an American bridal clothing retailer have in common? All seem to have been compromised in recent months by attackers who wielded LockBit crypto-locking malware - but who weren't tied to the actual LockBit operation.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 16, 2024
A controversial bill reauthorizing the Section 702 spy program may force whole new categories of businesses to eavesdrop on the US government’s behalf, including on fellow Americans.
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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.
Security Affairs
APRIL 16, 2024
Cisco Talos warns of large-scale brute-force attacks against a variety of targets, including VPN services, web application authentication interfaces and SSH services. Cisco Talos researchers warn of large-scale credential brute-force attacks targeting multiple targets, including Virtual Private Network (VPN) services, web application authentication interfaces and SSH services since at least March 18, 2024.
KnowBe4
APRIL 18, 2024
LastPass has warned that one of its employees was targeted by a social engineering attack that used an audio deepfake that impersonated the company’s CEO. Fortunately, the employee grew suspicious and avoided falling for the attack.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 15, 2024
Experts Warn of Growing Threat From Supply Chain Attacks After High-Profile Breach Cybersecurity experts are sounding the alarm over a rise in supply chain attacks targeting the interconnected systems of global corporate giants after the top U.S. cyber agency urged Sisense customers to reset their credentials following an apparent hack.
Data Matters
APRIL 16, 2024
On 12 March 2024, the European Parliament approved the EU Cyber Resilience Act (“ CRA ”) with a large majority of 517-12 votes in favor of the legislation (with 78 abstentions). The CRA aims to ensure that “products with digital elements” (“ PDE ”) i.e., connected products such as smart devices, and remote data processing solutions, are resilient against cyber threats and provide key information in relation to their security properties.
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Security Affairs
APRIL 18, 2024
Cisco has addressed a high-severity vulnerability in its Integrated Management Controller (IMC) for which publicly available exploit code exists. Cisco has addressed a high-severity Integrated Management Controller (IMC) vulnerability and is aware of a public exploit code for this issue. The PoC exploit code allows a local attacker to escalate privileges to root.
KnowBe4
APRIL 17, 2024
We are excited to announce that KnowBe4 has been named a leader in the Spring 2024 G2 Grid Report for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) for the PhishER platform for the 12th consecutive quarter!
Data Breach Today
APRIL 18, 2024
Hacks on Unregulated Dams Can Result in Mass Casualties, Experts and Lawmakers Warn Cybersecurity experts and top lawmakers are warning that a successful cyberattack targeting federally-regulated dams across the United States - the majority of which have not received a cyber audit - could result in a severe impact on public health and even mass casualties.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 16, 2024
Brian Krebs reported that X (formerly known as Twitter) started automatically changing twitter.com links to x.com links. The problem is: (1) it changed any domain name that ended with “twitter.com,” and (2) it only changed the link’s appearance (anchortext), not the underlying URL. So if you were a clever phisher and registered fedetwitter.com, people would see the link as fedex.com, but it would send people to fedetwitter.com.
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Security Affairs
APRIL 15, 2024
The Ukrainian hacking group Blackjack used a destructive ICS malware dubbed Fuxnet in attacks against Russian infrastructure. Industrial and enterprise IoT cybersecurity firm Claroty reported that the Ukrainian Blackjack hacking group claims to have damaged emergency detection and response capabilities in Moscow and beyond the Russian capital using a destructive ICS malware dubbed Fuxnet.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 16, 2024
A cybercriminal gang called RansomHub claims to be selling highly sensitive patient information stolen from Change Healthcare following a ransomware attack by another group in February.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 18, 2024
UnitedHealth Group Makes Low Key Admission in Online FAQ UnitedHealthGroup said for the first time that hackers behind a February ransomware attack against Change Healthcare breached sensitive health information, an admission that triggers a regulatory countdown clock for public disclosures and individual notification.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 17, 2024
Canadian legislators proposed 19,600 amendments —almost certainly AI-generated—to a bill in an attempt to delay its adoption. I wrote about many different legislative delaying tactics in A Hacker’s Mind , but this is a new one.
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
Security Affairs
APRIL 16, 2024
The Dark Angels (Dunghill) ransomware group claims the hack of the chipmaker Nexperia and the theft of 1 TB of data from the company. The Dark Angels (Dunghill) ransomware group claims responsibility for hacking chipmaker Nexperia and stealing 1 TB of the company’s data. Nexperia is a semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 18, 2024
Watch how smooth-talking scammers known as “Yahoo Boys” use widely available face-swapping tech to carry out elaborate romance scams.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 17, 2024
Hackers Target OpenMetadata Platforms Running on Cloud Kubernetes Environments Hackers who appear to be Chinese are exploiting vulnerabilities in the OpenMetadata platform running as workloads on Kubernetes clusters to download cryptomining software, warned Microsoft. "I want to buy a car," the hackers tell victims in a note and solicit monero donations.
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