Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Europol this week announced the shutdown of VPNLab, a VPN service that is very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. An international operation conducted by law enforcement bodies from 10 countries took down VPNLab.net, a VPN service provider that is very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. “This week, law enforcement authorities took action against the criminal misuse of VPN services as they targeted the users and infrastructure of VPNLab.net.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 18, 2022

After a gloomy start with its first three breach intensive quarters, 2021 has finally ended, and on a positive note. Related: Cybersecurity experts reflect on 2021. This conclusion is derived from an analysis of data taken from our data breach detection tool, Surfshark Alert , which comprises publicly available breached data sets to inform our users of potential threats.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

A new ransomware gang named White Rabbit appeared in the threat landscape, experts believe it is linked to the FIN8 hacking group. A new ransomware gang called ‘White Rabbit’ launched its operations and according to the experts, it is likely linked to the FIN8 financially motivated group. In December the popular malware researcher Michael Gillespie, first mentioned the group and called to action the experts to hunt the new threat.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 18, 2022

Rolling Stone is reporting that the UK government has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency to launch an anti-encryption advertising campaign. Presumably they’ll lean heavily on the “think of the children!” rhetoric we’re seeing in this current wave of the crypto wars. The technical eavesdropping mechanisms have shifted to client-side scanning, which won’t actually help — but since that’s not really the point, it’s not argued on its merits.

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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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Dark Reading

JANUARY 18, 2022

VirusTotal can be used to collect large amounts of credentials without infecting an organization or buying them online, researchers found.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

A sophisticated threat actor, tracked as Earth Lusca, is targeting government and private organizations worldwide as for financial purposes. Trend Micro researchers spotted an elusive threat actor, called Earth Lusca, that targets organizations worldwide via spear-phishing and watering hole attacks. . According to the security firm, the group is financially motivated, its cyberespionage campaign hit high value targets such as government and educational institutions, religious movements, pro-dem

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 18, 2022

Permiso's co-founders say the No. 1 problem in the cloud is identity, and their platform is designed to tackle the notoriously difficult challenge of monitoring the activity of those identities.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Luxury fashion giant Moncler confirmed a data breach after a ransomware attack carried out by the AlphV/BlackCat. Moncler confirmed a data breach after an attack that took place in December. The luxury fashion giant was hit by AlphV/BlackCat ransomware that today published the stolen data on its leak site in the Tor network. In December, malware researchers from Recorded Future and MalwareHunterTeam discovered ALPHV (aka BlackCat), the first professional ransomware strain that was written in the

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 18, 2022

"WhisperGate" malware was used to overwrite Master Boot Record and other files to render systems inoperable at several organizations in Ukraine, Microsoft says.

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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.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 18, 2022

Companies must take more ‘innovative and proactive’ approaches to security in 2022 to combat threats that emerged last year, researchers said.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Microsoft released Windows emergency out-of-band (OOB) updates to fix multiple issues caused by January 2021 Patch Tuesday updates. Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band (OOB) updates for Windows to address multiple issues caused by security updates issued as part of the January 2021 Patch Tuesday. The Windows Server updates for January were causing a series of issues for administrators, multiple administrators reported anomalous reboots of Windows domain controllers, and Hyper-V that was

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Threatpost

JANUARY 18, 2022

Praise be & pass the recipe for the software soup: There's too much scrambling to untangle vulnerabilities and dependencies, say a security experts roundtable.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 18, 2022

Consistent acquisition of key technologies and talent is a proven strategy for growth.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 18, 2022

It's time to sound the alarm for Log4Shell. Saryu Nayyar, CEO at Gurucul, discusses what actions you should be taking.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 18, 2022

Feeling creative? Submit your caption and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 Amazon gift card.

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IG Guru

JANUARY 18, 2022

For Immediate Release: January 14, 2022 Frederick, Md. – The Crowley Company (Crowley), a worldwide leader in digitization scanning solutions and services with offices in Frederick, Maryland, San Dimas, California and Basingstoke, UK, is pleased to announce that the firm has been honored for the eighth consecutive year with multiple LibraryWorks’ Modern Library Awards (MLA).

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 18, 2022

The onslaught of ransomware attacks since the pandemic began has not slowed. Organizations have been faced with the task of continuously reviewing their cybersecurity programs to ensure they are following best practices to protect against ransomware groups. But organizations also need to be prepared to respond to such an attack if their cybersecurity practices are thwarted–and many companies are in fact implementing ransomware specific cybersecurity incident response plans, which outline the s

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Threatpost

JANUARY 18, 2022

It's a double-extortion play that uses the command-line password ‘KissMe’ to hide its nasty acts and adorns its ransom note with cutesy ASCII bunny art.

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HID Global

JANUARY 18, 2022

How Inkjet Technology Is Extending Card Personalization to Smaller Organizations. dkappl. Tue, 01/18/2022 - 11:30.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 18, 2022

VMware's container-based application development environment has become attractive to cyberattackers.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 18, 2022

Cross-site scripting and broken access controls continued to be the top classes of vulnerabilities researchers discovered, according to Bugcrowd's annual vulnerability report.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 18, 2022

Zoho's comprehensive endpoint-management platform suffers from an authentication-bypass bug (CVE-2021-44757) that could lead to remote code execution.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 18, 2022

The flaws are now fixed, but they speak to the growing concerns around interactionless attacks.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 18, 2022

Yet they're showing signs of improvement across several important areas, a Dark Reading survey reveals.

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Unwritten Record

JANUARY 18, 2022

Maps of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay from the Army Corps of Engineers have been digitized and are available to view and download from the National Archives Catalog. The records are part of the Civil Works Map File series from Record Group 77, Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers. The records make up the G file unit. The records in the Civil Works Map File comprised the main map collection for the Corps of Engineers during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 18, 2022

VPNLab was used to support criminal activity, including ransomware campaigns and other attacks, Europol officials report.

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Hanzo Learning Center

JANUARY 18, 2022

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 18, 2022

Service facilitates the removal of malicious and phishing domains.

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