Data Breach Today
MAY 8, 2021
Attackers have Co-Opted Malware For Data Exfiltration and Ransom, Group-IB Finds Attackers have co-opted the Hancitor malware downloader and recently used it to deliver Cuba ransomware as part of an email spam campaign for data exfiltration and ransom extortion, a new report by security firm Group-IB finds.
Security Affairs
MAY 8, 2021
A cyberattack forced the shutdown of one of the largest pipelines in the United States, the Colonial Pipeline facility in Pelham, Alabama. The Colonial Pipeline facility in Pelham, Alabama was hit by a cybersecurity attack, its operators were forced to shut down its systems. The pipeline allows carrying 2.5 million barrels of refined gasoline and jet fuel each day up the East Coast from Texas to New York, it covers 45 percent of the East Coast’s fuel supplies. “The operator of the system,
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Data Breach Today
MAY 8, 2021
SVR's TTPs and General Tradecraft Detailed U.S. and U.K. cyber, law enforcement and intelligence agencies issued a joint advisory Friday offering detailed information on how to defend against the activities of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR, in the wake of the 2020 SolarWinds attacks.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 8, 2021
An attack has crippled the company’s operations—and cut off a large portion of the East Coast’s fuel supply—in an ominous development for critical infrastructure.
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
MAY 8, 2021
Company Has Taken Systems Offline As A Precaution; Investigation Ongoing Colonial Pipeline, which oversees more than 5,500 miles of pipeline that supplies fuel throughout the U.S. East Coast, confirmed Saturday that a ransomware attack has distributed its services and the company has taken some of its IT systems offline as a precaution.
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Security Affairs
MAY 8, 2021
Microsoft is warning of a large-scale BEC campaign that targeted hundreds of organizations leveraging typo-squatted domains registered days before the attacks. Business email compromise (BEC) attacks represent a serious threat for organizations worldwide, according to the annual report released by FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center , the 2020 Internet Crime Report , in 2020, the IC3 received 19,369 Business Email Compromise (BEC)/Email Account Compromise (EAC) complaints.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 8, 2021
The secret campaign, backed by major broadband companies, used real people’s names without their consent.
Adam Shostack
MAY 8, 2021
So there’s some good news and some bad news in this story: Too Bad, Zuck: Just 4% of U.S. iPhone Users Let Apps Track Them After iOS Update. The good news is that, given a choice, 96% of Americans don’t accept targeted ads. I’m sure that the advertisers will accept that, move on, and not oppose new restrictions on intrusive practices.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 8, 2021
Plus: A Peloton data leak, Russian hacker details, and more of the week’s top security news.
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