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Acer Reportedly Targeted by Ransomware Gang

Data Breach Today

PC and Device Maker Appears to Have Been Targeted by REvil Acer, one of the world's largest PC and device makers, has reportedly been targeted by the ransomware gang REvil, aka Sodinokibi, according to multiple published reports. To date, the Taiwanese company has not confirmed it has been attacked, but data has been posted to the gang's darknet site.

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Microsoft Defender can now protect servers against ProxyLogon attacks

Security Affairs

Microsoft announced that its Defender Antivirus and System Center Endpoint Protection now protects users against attacks exploiting Exchange Server vulnerabilities. Microsoft announced this week that Defender Antivirus and System Center Endpoint Protection now provide automatic protection against attacks exploiting the recently disclosed ProxyLogon vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange. “Today, we have taken an additional step to further support our customers who are still vulnerable and h

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Attackers Exploiting Critical F5 Networks Vulnerability

Data Breach Today

BIG-IP Server Flaw Ranked 9.8 out of 10 in Severity Threats actors are actively exploiting a critical remote code vulnerability in F5 Networks' BIG-IP server appliances, for which patches were released by the company on March 10. The vulnerability has a CVSS ranking of 9.8 out of 10 - highly critical.

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The Peculiar Ransomware Piggybacking Off of China’s Big Hack

WIRED Threat Level

DearCry is the first attack to use the same Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, but its lack of sophistication lessens the threat.

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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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Swiss expert Till Kottmann indicted for conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft

Security Affairs

Department of Justice announced that Swiss hacker Till Kottmann, 21, has been indicted for conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. A group of US hackers recently claimed to have gained access to footage from 150,000 security cameras at banks, jails, schools, healthcare clinics, and prominent organizations. Hackers also posted images captured from the hacked surveillance video on Twitter with an #OperationPanopticon hashtag, published images show that they have gained root shell ac

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 306

Security Affairs

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here. Experts found 15 flaws in Netgear JGS516PE switch, including a critical RCE Google releases Spectre PoC code exploit for Chrome browser Google fixes the third actively exploited Chrome 0-Day since January NCSC is not aware of ransomware attacks compromising UK orgs th

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CISA Releases CHIRP, a Tool to Detect SolarWinds Malicious Activity

Security Affairs

US CISA has released a new tool that allows detecting malicious activity associated with the SolarWinds hackers in compromised on-premises enterprise environments.

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