Mon.Sep 05, 2022

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Cybercriminal Service ‘EvilProxy’ Seeks to Hijack Accounts

Data Breach Today

EvilProxy Bypasses MFA By Capturing Session Cookies One of the biggest challenges for cybercriminals is how to defeat multifactor authentication. New research has uncovered a criminal service called “EvilProxy” that steals session cookies to bypass MFA and compromise accounts.

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EvilProxy Phishing-As-A-Service With MFA Bypass Emerged In Dark Web

Security Affairs

Resecurity researchers discovered a new Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) called EvilProxy advertised on the Dark Web. Original post: [link]. Following the recent Twilio hack leading to the leakage of 2FA (OTP) codes, cybercriminals continue to upgrade their attack arsenal to orchestrate advanced phishing campaigns targeting users worldwide. Resecurity has recently identified a new Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) called EvilProxy advertised in the Dark Web.

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New SharkBot Trojan Spread Via Mobile Security Apps

Data Breach Today

Now-Removed Apps Have 60K Downloads; Target Victims in Australia, US The operators behind banking Trojan SharkBot are distributing an updated version of the malware on now-deactivated malicious applications on Google Play. Called Mister Phone Cleaner and Kylhavy Mobile Security, the apps have been downloaded 10,000 and 50,000 times respectively, says Fox-IT.

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A new phishing scam targets American Express cardholders

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity firm Armorblox discovered a new phishing campaign aimed at American Express customers. Armorblox researchers uncovered a new phishing campaign that is targeting American Express customers. The messages use a malicious attachment and their content attempt to trick cardholders into opening it. The subject of the emails reads “Important Notification About Your Account” in an attempt to urge recipients to open it.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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CHINA: major developments on CAC assessment for cross-border data transfers – the task is now clear, but the urgency remains

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

If your organisation must follow the CAC assessment route to continue your cross-border flows of personal information or important data, we now know the full extent of the self-assessment, application and supporting documents to be filed with the CAC for approval. It remains a significant task, so action must be taken as soon as possible to meet the deadlines.

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Episode 242: Hacking the Farm (and John Deere) with Sick Codes

The Security Ledger

In our latest podcast, Paul caught up with Sick Codes (@sickcodes) to talk about his now-legendary presentation at the DEF CON Conference in Las Vegas, in which he demonstrated a hack that ran the Doom first person shooter on a John Deere 4240 touch-screen monitor. The post Episode 242: Hacking the Farm (and John Deere) with Sick Codes appeared. Read the whole entry. » Click the icon below to listen.

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Windows Defender identified Chromium, Electron apps as Hive Ransomware

Security Affairs

Microsoft released a Windows Defender update to fix a problem that caused Defender antivirus to identify Chromium, Electron, as malware. Microsoft released a Windows Defender update to fix a problem that caused Defender antivirus software to identify the app based on the Chromium browser engine or the Electron JavaScript framework as malware. Multiple users reported to the tech giant that they have received a “win32/hive.zy” removal notification every time they run applications like

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3 Critical Steps for Reducing Cloud Risk

Dark Reading

Having a better understanding of how clouds are built, connected, and managed helps organizations mitigate risks and reduce attack surfaces.

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Instagram owner Meta fined €405m over handling of teens’ data

The Guardian Data Protection

Penalty follows investigation into Instagram setting that allowed teenagers to set up accounts that displayed contact details Instagram owner Meta has been fined €405m (£349m) by the Irish data watchdog for letting teenagers set up accounts that publicly displayed their phone numbers and email addresses. The Data Protection Commission confirmed the penalty after a two-year investigation into potential breaches of the European Union’s general data protection regulation (GDPR).

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Data Modeling 401 for the cloud: Database design for serverless data-bases in the cloud

erwin

This blog is based upon a recent webcast that can be watched here. As with part 1 , part 2 ,and part 3 of this data modeling blog series, this blog also stresses that the cloud is not nirvana. Yes, it offers essentially infinitely scalable resources. But you must pay for using them. When you make poor database design choices for applications deployed to the public cloud, then your company gets to pay every month for all those inherent, built-in inefficiencies.

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Should we delete our period tracking apps?

The Guardian Data Protection

Since Roe v Wade was overturned in the US in June, there are concerns that law enforcement could request the intimate data users share with period tracking apps. Johana Bhuiyan reports on the privacy concerns Millions of women around the world use period tracking apps to understand their bodies and work out when their ovulation or period is due. While many people find these apps useful and empowering, there are concerns about where the data put on these apps goes.

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