Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Communities like Craigslist , OfferUp , Facebook Marketplace and others are great for finding low- or no-cost stuff that one can pick up directly from a nearby seller, and for getting rid of useful things that don’t deserve to end up in a landfill. But when dealing with strangers from the Internet, there is always a risk that the person you’ve agreed to meet has other intentions.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Also: Vice Society Ransomware Gang Claims Credit for Attack The only surprising aspect of the ransomware attack against Los Angeles Unified School District is that it didn’t happen sooner. The district was warned of cybersecurity weaknesses in the 20 months leading to its ransomware attack. The Vice Society gang has claimed credit.
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Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Threat actors claimed to have stolen classified NATO documents from the Armed Forces General Staff agency of Portugal (EMGFA). After discovering that Classified NATO documents belonging to the Armed Forces General Staff agency of Portugal (EMGFA) were offered for sale on the darkweb, the Portuguese agency discovered it has suffered a cyberattack. The Armed Forces General Staff (Portuguese: Estado-Maior-General das Forças Armadas), or EMGFA, is the supreme military body of Portugal.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Major Drama in the Online Underworld Who's been disrupting ransomware operations' data leak sites by targeting them with distributed denial-of-service attacks? No one has yet claimed credit for the ongoing disruptions and slowdowns, but one likely theory is that rival operations are attempting to cause each other pain.
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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.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in a WordPress plugin called BackupBuddy, Wordfence researchers warned. On September 6, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team was informed of a vulnerability being actively exploited in the BackupBuddy WordPress plugin. This plugin allows users to back up an entire WordPress installation, including theme files, pages, posts, widgets, users, and media files.
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eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Nearly a quarter of healthcare organizations hit by ransomware attacks experienced an increase in patient mortality, according to a study from Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint released today. The report , “Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare: The Cost and Impact on Patient Safety and Care,” surveyed 641 healthcare IT and security practitioners and found that the most common consequences of cyberattacks are delayed procedures and tests, resulting in poor patient outcomes for 57% of the healthcare prov
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Crypto Expert Joins ISMG Panel to Discuss Recent Revelations, Regulatory Actions In the latest weekly update, Ari Redbord, head of legal and government affairs at TRM Labs, joins ISMG editors to discuss how extremist groups could circumvent sanctions and fund terrorism through NFTs, the limitations of digital assets regulations, and new U.K. rules for crypto exchange reporting.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
CISA added 12 more security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog including four D-Link vulnerabilities. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 12 new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog , including four vulnerabilities in D-Link routers, two Chrome zero-day issues, and a recently disclosed flaw in the QNAP Photo Station.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Vulnerabilities in certain medication infusion pump products from manufacturer Baxter could compromise a hospital's biomedical network. The flaws highlight the risks involving the acquisition and disposal of medical technology, says researcher Deral Heiland of Rapid7.
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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.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Iran-linked APT group DEV-0270 (aka Nemesis Kitten) is abusing the BitLocker Windows feature to encrypt victims’ devices. Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence researchers reported that Iran-linked APT group DEV-0270 ( Nemesis Kitten ) has been abusing the BitLocker Windows feature to encrypt victims’ devices. The researchers tracked multiple ransomware attacks conducted by the DEV-0270 group, which is a unit of the Iranian actor PHOSPHORUS.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
The latest ISMG Security Report discusses a new phishing-as-a-service toolkit designed to bypass multi-factor authentication, the decision by Lloyd's of London to exclude nation-state attacks from cyber insurance policies, and challenges at Okta after it acquired customer identity giant Auth0.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
US authorities recovered more than $30 million worth of cryptocurrency stolen by the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT from Axie Infinity. A joint operation conducted by enforcement and leading organizations in the cryptocurrency industry allowed to recover more than $30 million worth of cryptocurrency stolen by North Korean-linked APT group Lazarus from online video game Axie Infinity.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Besides a Lag in Reporting, Some of the Compromised Data Was a Decade-Old A Michigan law firm recently told regulators about a hacking incident discovered nearly a year ago that has affected the protected health information of more than 255,000 individuals, including members of a Michigan health plan. Some of the compromised data was a decade old.
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Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.
Collibra
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Data-driven organizations are depending on modern technologies and AI to get the most out of their data assets. But they struggle with data quality issues all the time. Incomplete or inaccurate data, security problems, hidden data – the list is endless. Several surveys reveal the extent of cost damages across many verticals due to the problems associated with data quality.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Victim Nereus Offers 'No Questions Asked' Reward for Return of Stolen Funds An attacker stole at least $370,000 worth of USDC stablecoins from a smart contract on the Avalanche blockchain in a flash loan attack, affecting liquidity providers. Victim Nereus Finance is enticing the thief to return the stolen funds for a 20% "no questions asked" white hat reward.
CGI
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Energy and utilities companies are increasingly moving to the cloud to gain a number of business advantages, including enhanced data security and access. Migrating data to the cloud is not only a more secure way to store data, but also makes it easier to access the data. With the cloud, data is managed in tightly secured offsite locations (versus on-premise) with “back-ups of back-ups,” so to speak, and far greater business continuity capabilities than typically found onsite.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
US, Europe Take Action on Marketplace for Selling Personal Data A U.S. law enforcement investigation involving multiple countries resulted in the shutdown of an online marketplace selling millions of Social Security numbers, payment cards and other credentials. Prosecutors unsealed a complaint against a Moldovan man fingered as the operator.
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
The critical flaw in BackupBuddy is one of thousands of security issues reported in recent years in products that WordPress sites use to extend functionality.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Chainalysis Says It Helped Recover $30 Million in Hacked Ronin Bridge Crypto U.S. sanctions on Tornado Cash are driving North Korean hackers away from the cryptocurrency mixer. Chainalysis says hackers' use of ineffective obfuscation techniques allowed the blockchain analysis firm to participate in an operation recovering $30 million stolen from the Ronin bridge in March.
Record Nations
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
It’s no secret that incidents of cybercrime increased greatly over the past few years. Covid restrictions, remote work, and hybrid office setting have only exacerbated this phenomenon. These crimes take on many names from ransomware to phishing. But did you know that having a sound record management plan in place can prevent some of the […]. The post Having a Record Management Plan can Fight Phishing appeared first on Record Nations.
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Queries of reported cases to Singapore Police reveal a rise in scam costs by 59% as phishing cases double and job-related scams increase 7x from the first half of 2021.
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Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Stewart Baker discusses why the industry-norm responsible disclosure for software vulnerabilities fails for cryptocurrency software. Why can’t the cryptocurrency industry solve the problem the way the software and hardware industries do, by patching and updating security as flaws are found? Two reasons: First, many customers don’t have an ongoing relationship with the hardware and software providers that protect their funds—nor do they have an incentive to update security on a regular bas
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
New data from PwC provides insight into what aspects of the business are executives focused on, worried about, and seeing as future challenges as they look to manage business risk.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
A sweeping effort to prevent a raft of targeted cybercrime groups from posting ransomware victims' data publicly is hampering their operations, causing outages.
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Phishing is still the No. 1 attack vector. Your users are exposed to malicious email daily. They can now report those to your Incident Response (IR) team. But how to best manage your user-reported messages?
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Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
More docked ships bring a new challenge. The longer a ship is docked, the more vulnerable the port is to a cyberattack.
Jamf
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Top reasons why it's crucial for your organization to understand and take advantage of Apple Mobile Device Management.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
The Treasury Department links the MuddyWater APT and APT39 to Iran's intelligence apparatus, which is now blocked from doing business with US entities.
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