Data Breach Today

JUNE 20, 2021

Attacker Sends Emails with False Claims of Compromise, Trend Micro Says A fake cyber crime group claiming to be DarkSide ransomware is targeting organizations in the food and energy sectors by sending hoax emails to extort ransoms from victims, a report by security firm Trend Micro says. None of the victims has detected any compromise so far.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2021

A new bug in iPhone can permanently break users’ WiFi by disabling it, the issue could be triggered by simply connecting to a rogue hotspot. The researcher Carl Schou discovered a new bug in iPhone that can permanently break users’ WiFi by disabling it, the issue could be triggered by simply connecting to a rogue hotspot. . Once an iPhone established a WiFi connection to a rogue hotspot, it will no more be able to establish a connection to a Wi-Fi device, even if it is rebooted or th

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2021

Norway police secret service states said that China-linked APT31 group was behind the 2018 cyberattack on the government’s IT network. Norway’s Police Security Service (PST) said that the China-linked APT31 cyberespionage group was behind the attack that breached the government’s IT network in 2018. The attribution of the attack to the APT31 grouo is based on the results of the investigation conducted by the Norwegian intelligence.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2021

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the Poland Law and Justice party, blames Russia for the recent cyberattack targeting top Polish politicians. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the Poland Law and Justice party (PiS), blames Russia for the recent cyberattack that targeted top Polish politicians. Last week, Poland’s parliament had a closed-door session to discuss an unprecedented wave of cyberattacks that hit its institutions and individuals.

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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

JUNE 20, 2021

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. APWG: Phishing maintained near-record levels in the first quarter of 2021 BackdoorDiplomacy APT targets diplomats from Africa and the Middle East Security Affairs newsletter Round 318 Apple fixed 2 WebKit flaws exploited to target older iPhones G7 calls on Russia to d

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