Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Canal de Isabel II Suspends Its Telephone Services GSS, the Spanish and Latin America division of Europe's largest call center provider Covisian, has informed that it has been subjected to a ransomware attack, which froze its IT systems and crippled call centers across its Spanish-speaking customer base.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The customer care and call center provider GSS has suffered a ransomware attack that crippled its systems and impacted its Spanish-speaking customers. GSS customer care and call center provider has suffered a ransomware attack that crippled its system and paralyzed call centers serving its Spanish-speaking customers. GSS is the Spanish and Latin America division of Covisian, a European giant of customer care and call center providers.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Double Negotiations and Malware Backdoor Let Admins Scam Affiliates Out of Profits Ransomware-wielding attackers love to lie to victims. But REvil - aka Sodinokibi - has reportedly been running double negotiations to make affiliates think a victim hasn't paid a ransom, using a backdoor in the malware that allows administrators to decrypt victims' systems, so affiliates don't get their cut.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Google released a Chrome emergency update for Windows, Mac, and Linux that addresses a high-severity zero-day flaw exploited in the wild. Google has released Chrome 94.0.4606.61 for Windows, Mac, and Linux that addresses a high-severity zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-37973) exploited in the wild. An attacker can exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code on systems running vulnerable Chrome versions.

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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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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Plus: The ransomware scourge continues, a massive botnet gets wounded, and more of the week’s top security news.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Immediately after the public release of the exploit code for the VMware vCenter CVE-2021-22005 flaw threat actors started using it. Researchers warn that immediately after the release of the exploit code for the recently addressed CVE-2021-22005 flaw in VMware vCenter threat actors started using it. The CVE-2021-22005 issue is a critical arbitrary file upload vulnerability that impacts appliances running default vCenter Server 6.7 and 7.0 deployments. vCenter Server is the centralized management

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This large-scale study demonstrates, by surveying 17280 participants, that existing toxicity classifiers fail to generalize to the diverse concerns of Internet users.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

5 years of weekly updates, wow. It's not like anything of much significance has happened in that time, right?! I've done these videos every single week without fail, through high and lows and no matter where I was in the world. As I say early on, they've helped keep me focused and whilst it hasn't always been easy to sit here and create them each week, I'm very glad I've done it.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

European Union representatives formally accused Russia of attempting to target the elections and political systems of several EU states. European Union has formally accused Russia of meddling in the elections and political systems of several EU states. EU high representative said that Russia-linked threat actors were behind a recent operation tracked as Ghostwriter.

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