Mon.Sep 03, 2018

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Business Email Compromise Schemes Most Seek Wire Transfers

Data Breach Today

'CEO Fraud' Social-Engineering Attacks Continue to Surge Business email compromise attacks continue to be lucrative, for the criminally inclined. With the FBI reporting that reports of such attacks have recently doubled, researchers find that tricking victims into making fraudulent wire transfers remains attackers' top goal.

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Arjen Kamphuis, the Dutch associate of Julian Assange, went missing in Norway

Security Affairs

Julian Assange associate and author of “Information Security for Journalists” Arjen Kamphuis has disappeared, the Norwegian police is working on the case. Media agencies worldwide are reporting the strange disappearance of Arjen Kamphuis, the Julian Assange associate. The news was confirmed by WikiLeaks on Sunday, the man has been missing since August 20, when he left his hotel in the Norwegian town of Bodo.

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Card-Skimming Malware Campaign Hits Dozens of Sites Daily

Data Breach Today

Lock Down Magento E-Commerce Software or See Card Details Get Routed to Moscow In the past six months, more than 7,000 sites that run Magento e-commerce software have been infected with malicious JavaScript designed to harvest customers' payment card details as they finalize their orders, a security researcher warns.

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Critical remote code execution flaw patched in Packagist PHP package repository

Security Affairs

Maintainers of Packagist, the largest PHP package repository, have recently addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability. Packagist is the default package host behind Composer , it has over 435 million package installs. The vulnerability was reported by the security researcher Max Justicz, the expert discovered that the “Submit Package” input field for submitting new PHP packages via the package repository homepage allowed an attacker to execute a malicious command in the

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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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Scan and Shred: A Critical Combination

Record Nations

To keep records management organized and secure, the best strategy is often a joint approach covering both scanning new records along with shredding the unnecessary hard-copies once you’re done. Use this video to learn more about why combining scanning and shredding is an essential combination in records management, the different cost, security, and convenience reasons […].

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APT10 Under Close Scrutiny as Potentially Linked to Chinese Ministry of State Security

Threatpost

An advanced threat actor has been associated with China’s Ministry of State Security via two individuals and a Chinese firm.

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California’s AG is Not Happy with the State’s New Consumer Privacy Act: Data Privacy Trends

eDiscovery Daily

As I noted a couple of months ago, 2018 is certainly on its way to becoming the year of data privacy rights for the individual. And, back in June, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 was approved unanimously by the state Senate and Assembly and was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. But, California’s AG has just ripped lawmakers for ‘unworkable’ provisions in the new law.

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TrendMicro links Urpage hacking crew to other threat actors

Security Affairs

Last week, security researchers from Trend Micro discovered a new threat actor, tracked as Urpage, that shares similarities with other three hacking crews. Researchers from Trend Micro linked a recently discovered actor, tracked as Urpage, to the hacking groups known as Bahamut, Confucius, and Patchwork. Trend Micro first connected the Confucius group to the Patchwork crew in early 2018, then discovered many similarities between the groups.