Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Organizations have paid more than $600 million in cryptocurrency during 2021, nearly one-third to the Conti ransomware gang. Last week, cybersecurity agencies from the U.K., the U.S. and Australia have published a joint advisory warning of an increased globalised threat of ransomware worldwide in 2021. According to a report published by the blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis, organizations have paid $602 million in cryptocurrency during 2021.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Your lock screen stands between your private data and unwelcome visitors—make sure you set it up correctly.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers Zoziel Pinto Freire analyzed the use of weaponized PDFs in phishing attacks. Every day everybody receives many phishing attacks with malicious docs or PDFs. I decided to take a look at one of these files. I did a static analysis and I went straight to the point to make this reading simple and fast. Here is the received email as it was from the Caixa Economica Federal bank, but we can see the sender uses Gmail services and a strange name.

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The Security Ledger

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In this episode of the podcast (#235) Justine Bone, the CEO of Medsec, joins Paul to talk about cyber threats to healthcare organizations in the age of COVID. Justine’s firm works with hospitals and healthcare organizations to understand their cyber risk and defend against attacks, including ransomware. The post Episode 235: Justine Bone of. Read the whole entry. » Click the icon below to listen.

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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.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

A ransomware attack hit the corporate IT network of the San Francisco 49ers NFL team, The Record reported. The San Francisco 49ers NFL team has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, the news was reported by The Record. The team disclosed the attack after that the BlackByte ransomware added the team to the list of its victims on its dark web leak site.

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