Sat.Apr 16, 2022

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The unceasing action of Anonymous against Russia

Security Affairs

This week the Anonymous collective and its affiliates have targeted multiple Russian organizations stealing gigabytes of data. This week Anonymous and other hacker groups affiliated with the collective have launched multiple attacks against Russian government agencies and organizations. The week started with the announcement of the hack of Russia’s Ministry of Culture, Anonymous leaked 446 GB of data through the DDoSecrets platform.

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The several canons of CBOR

Imperial Violet

There are many encoding formats. CBOR is one of them. Like several others, a subset of it basically fine—I'm not starting that fight today. Whatever encoding you use, it's nice to reduce flexibility. If there are multiple ways of encoding the same thing then, for anything with a non-negligible diversity of implementations, you'll find that there is a canonical encoding, it's just not documented.

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U.S. Gov believes North Korea-linked Lazarus APT is behind Ronin Validator cyber heist

Security Affairs

The U.S. government blames North Korea-linked APT Lazarus for the recent $600 million Ronin Validator cyber heist. The U.S. government attributes the recent $600 million Ronin Validator cryptocurrencty heist to the North Korea-linked APT Lazarus. The U.S. Treasury announced in a notice the sanctions against the Ethereum address used by the APT to receive the stolen funds.

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Twitter’s upcoming edit feature may keep track of tweet history via the Verge

IG Guru

It may preserve the previous versions of a tweet. The post Twitter’s upcoming edit feature may keep track of tweet history via the Verge appeared first on IG GURU.

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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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Threat actors target the Ukrainian gov with IcedID malware

Security Affairs

Threat actors are targeting Ukrainian government agencies with phishing attacks delivering the IcedID malware. The Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) uncovered new phishing campaigns aimed at infecting systems of Ukrainian government agencies with the IcedID malware. IcedID banking trojan first appeared in the threat landscape in 2017, it has capabilities similar to other financial threats like Gozi , Zeus , and Dridex.