Data Breach Today
MARCH 21, 2022
FBI Warns: Operation's Affiliates Employ a Variety of Tactics to Hit Targets The ransomware-as-a-service operation AvosLocker has been amassing "victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in the United States," the FBI warns in a new alert that includes known indicators of compromise and tactics employed the group and essential defenses for all organizations.
eSecurity Planet
MARCH 21, 2022
The final piece of the complicated Mandiant-FireEye split and subsequent FireEye-McAfee merger fell into place today, as McAfee’s cloud security business was officially spun off under the new name of Skyhigh Security. McAfee Enterprise and FireEye were acquired by Symphony Technology Group last year as Mandiant became a standalone company. STG also owns RSA Security, which remains a separate company.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 21, 2022
US Cyber Official Warns of Potential Russian Cyberattacks Prospects of Russia reviving its economy via cryptocurrency remain limited, officials have said, but the U.S. Treasury Department is reportedly warning that it has detected a rise in the use of digital assets for illicit transactions, including after Feb. 24, when the war began.
Jamf
MARCH 21, 2022
Apple Distinguished Educator Michael Hernandez is the first guest on the Jamf School of Thought blogcast, sharing reflections about digital storytelling and media literacy.
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.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 21, 2022
SASE, Cloud and Data Security, Privacy, CISO Strategies in Complex Environments The past month has been filled with action-packed virtual cybersecurity events as the enterprise community continues to deal with a myriad of cybersecurity challenges. While the topics covered were wide-ranging, ISMG analyzed two summits for common themes and shares the significant takeaways.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 21, 2022
Texas Dental Practice Says Patient PHI 'Accessed, Copied' in 2021 Malware Incident A Texas dental and orthodontic practice that boasts of being "the official dentist" of the National Basketball Association team the Dallas Mavericks is notifying more than 1 million individuals of a 2021 breach involving patient information being viewed and copied by attackers.
eSecurity Planet
MARCH 21, 2022
Using misconfigured multi-factor authentication (MFA) and an unpatched Windows vulnerability, Russian state-sponsored hackers were able to breach a non-governmental organization (NGO) and escalate privileges, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI revealed last week. By using a misconfigured Cisco Duo MFA implementation to force enrollment of a new device, the hackers were then able to use the “PrintNightmare” Windows Print Spooler vulnerability ( CVE
Data Breach Today
MARCH 21, 2022
Attack Details Came to Light in the Organization's FEC Filing The U.S. National Rifle Association States reportedly fell victim to a ransomware attack in October 2021. The NRA did not acknowledge the attack at the time, but a recent FEC filing explaining a financial discrepancy has forced it to confirm the ransomware attack and detail its impact.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 21, 2022
This is a big deal : A developer has been caught adding malicious code to a popular open-source package that wiped files on computers located in Russia and Belarus as part of a protest that has enraged many users and raised concerns about the safety of free and open source software. The application, node-ipc, adds remote interprocess communication and neural networking capabilities to other open source code libraries.
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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.
KnowBe4
MARCH 21, 2022
With the recent cyber-attacks between Russia and Ukraine and the current intelligence coming from the US Government, organizations want to shore up their defenses to reduce the risk of a successful attack by any nation-state.
Troy Hunt
MARCH 21, 2022
For the last 4 years, I've been providing API-level access to national government agencies so that they can search and monitor their government domains on Have I Been Pwned. Today, I'm very happy to welcome the 29th government to join the service, Italy! Via CSIRT-Italia within their National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN), they now have free access to breach data I hope will further empower them to protect their people in the wake of data breaches.
Security Affairs
MARCH 21, 2022
A Ukrainian security researcher has leaked more source code from the Conti ransomware operation to protest the gang’s position on the conflict. Hacker leaked a new version of the Conti ransomware source code on Twitter as retaliation of the gang’s support to Russia. The attack against the Conti ransomware and the data leak is retaliation for its support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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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.
Threatpost
MARCH 21, 2022
The trojanized Craftsart Cartoon Photo Tools app is available in the official Android app store, but it's actually spyware capable of stealing any and all information from victims' social-media accounts.
Security Affairs
MARCH 21, 2022
Microsoft is investigating claims that the Lapsus$ hacking group breached its internal Azure DevOps source code repositories. Microsoft announced that is investigating claims that the Lapsus$ cybercrime gang breached their internal Azure DevOps source code repositories and stolen data. Over the last months, the gang compromised other prominent companies such as NVIDIA , Samsung , Ubisoft , Mercado Libre, and Vodafone.
Threatpost
MARCH 21, 2022
Can we trust web browsers to protect us, even if they say “https?” Not with the novel BitB attack, which fakes popup SSO windows to phish away credentials for Google, Facebook and Microsoft, et al.
Security Affairs
MARCH 21, 2022
Italy’s data privacy watchdog launched an investigation into the “potential risks” associated with the use of Russian antivirus software Kaspersky. Italy’s data privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into potential risks associated with the use of the Kaspersky antivirus. The Italian authority aims at verifying how the Russian company processes the data of Italian users and whether it transfers the collected information outside the EU, including Russia. “The
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Dark Reading
MARCH 21, 2022
A threat group combines the use of steganography, open source tools, and Python scripts to target organizations in France.
Security Affairs
MARCH 21, 2022
Ukraine CERT (CERT-UA) warns of spear-phishing ??attacks conducted by UAC-0035 group (aka InvisiMole) on state organizations of Ukraine. The Government Team for Response to Computer Emergencies of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warns of spear-phishing messages conducted by UAC-0035 group (aka InvisiMole) against Ukrainian state bodies. The messages use an archive named “501_25_103.zip”, which contains a shortcut file.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MARCH 21, 2022
What is digital sovereignty and how can you achieve it in the cloud? divya. Tue, 03/22/2022 - 04:42. According to the world economic forum , digital sovereignty refers “to the ability to have control over your own digital destiny – the data, hardware and software that you rely on and create”. As data continues to grow exponentially and modern organizations rely more and more on digital platforms, there is a growing need for digital sovereignty across nations.
Security Affairs
MARCH 21, 2022
A new email campaign aimed at French entities leverages the Chocolatey Windows package manager to deliver the Serpent backdoor. Proofpoint researchers uncovered a targeted attack leveraging an open-source package installer Chocolatey to deliver a backdoor tracked as Serpent. The campaign targeted French entities in the construction, real estate, and government industries.
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Dark Reading
MARCH 21, 2022
The battle is not just being waged in the physical world — it's also happening online. And average people are taking part, not just governments.
Security Affairs
MARCH 21, 2022
The DirtyMoe botnet continues to evolve and now includes a module that implements wormable propagation capabilities. In June 2021, researchers from Avast warned of the rapid growth of the DirtyMoe botnet ( PurpleFox , Perkiler , and NuggetPhantom ), which passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system.
Threatpost
MARCH 21, 2022
A ransomware attack struck Bridgestone Americas, weeks after another Toyota supplier experienced the same and a third reported some kind of cyber hit.
Dark Reading
MARCH 21, 2022
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OpenText Information Management
MARCH 21, 2022
The growing volume and complexity of digital content in most industries has made DAM a crucial capability in a wide variety of organizations. The post How Digital Asset Management is transforming customer and employee experiences across industries appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Dark Reading
MARCH 21, 2022
Strong demand for application security that supports DevSecOps initiatives drives investment from Koch Disruptive Technologies and New Enterprise Associates.
IG Guru
MARCH 21, 2022
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