Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Visa issued a warning regarding a new credit card JavaScript skimmer, tracked as Baka, that implements new features to evade detection. Visa issued a warning regarding a new e-skimmer known as Baka that removes itself from memory after having exfiltrating payment card details. The e-skimmer was first spotted by experts with Visa’s Payment Fraud Disruption (PFD) initiative in February 2020 while analyzing a command and control (C2) server employed in another campaign and that hosted an Imag

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Survivors and victims’ group ‘outraged’ by suggested sum per person for email error in May Survivors of institutional sexual and physical abuse in Northern Ireland have rejected compensation offered to them in response to a damaging leak that exposed more than 500 of their names. The Survivors and Victims of Institutional Abuse (Savia) group said on Sunday it was “outraged” by the offer of £1,500 per person as recompense for their identities being revealed earlier this year.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Argentina’s official immigration agency, Dirección Nacional de Migraciones, is the last victim of the Netwalker ransomware operators. Argentina’s official immigration agency, Dirección Nacional de Migraciones, was hit by a Netwalker ransomware attack that caused the interruption of the border crossing into and out of the country for four hours.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

WhatsApp addressed six previously undisclosed flaws in its app and disclosed them on a new dedicated security advisory site. WhatsApp announced more transparency about the vulnerabilities affecting its app and will publicly disclose them to the users. The company addressed six previously undisclosed flaws in its app and disclosed them on a new dedicated web site.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

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. Emotet botnet has begun to use a new ‘Red Dawn template Malicious npm package ‘fallguys removed from the official repository US DoJ wants the funds stored by North Korea in 280 BTC and ETH Google removed malicious Terracotta apps from the Play Store Hackers are trying to exploit DoS flaw in Cisco IOS XR software running in carrier-grade routers

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