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FBI: Russian Forums Sell Higher Education Credentials

Data Breach Today

Agency Spotted Compromised Credentials On Various Dark Web Forums The FBI is warning the U.S. higher education sector about compromised sensitive credentials and network access information advertised for sale across various public and Dark Web forums. The agency states that this access to credentials could potentially lead to a cyberattack.

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GitHub: Nearly 100,000 NPM Users’ credentials stolen in the April OAuth token attack

Security Affairs

GitHub provided additional details into the theft of its integration OAuth tokens that occurred in April, with nearly 100,000 NPM users’ credentials. GitHub provided additional details about the incident that suffered in April, the attackers were able to steal nearly 100K NPM users’ credentials. In April, GitHub uncovered threat actors using stolen OAuth user tokens to gain access to their repositories and download private data from several organizations.

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Critical OAS Bugs Open Industrial Systems to Takeover

Dark Reading

The most serious flaw gives attackers a way to remotely execute code on systems that many organizations use to move data in critical ICS environments, security vendor says.

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Experts believe that Russian Gamaredon APT could fuel a new round of DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

360 Qihoo reported DDoS attacks launched by APT-C-53 (aka Gamaredon) conducted through the open-source DDoS Trojan program LOIC. Researchers at 360 Qihoo observed a wave of DDoS attacks launched by Russia-linked APT-C-53 (aka Gamaredon) and reported that the threat actors also released as open-source the code of a DDoS Trojan called LOIC. The instances of the malware spotted by the experts were compiled in early March, a few days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. “We found that

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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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DuckDuckGo Isn’t as Private as You Think

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: A $150 million Twitter fine, a massive leak from a Chinese prison in Xinjiang, and an ISIS plot to assassinate George W. Bush.

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DuckDuckGo Isn’t as Private as You Think

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: A $150 million Twitter fine, a massive leak from a Chinese prison in Xinjiang, and an ISIS plot to assassinate George W. Bush.

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Reuters: Russia-linked APT behind Brexit leak website

Security Affairs

Russia-linked threat actors are behind a new website that published leaked emails from leading proponents of Britain’s exit from the EU, the Reuters reported. According to a Google cybersecurity official and the former head of UK foreign intelligence, the “Very English Coop d’Etat” website was set up to publish private emails from Brexit supporters, including former British MI6 chief Richard Dearlove, leading Brexit campaigner Gisela Stuart, and historian Robert Tombs.

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Weekly Update 297

Troy Hunt

So I basically spent my whole day yesterday playing with Ubiquiti gear and live-tweeting the experience 😊 This was an unapologetically geeky pleasure and it pretty much dominates this week's video but hey, it's a fun topic. Still, there's a bunch of data breach stuff up front and as I write this, 25M more records courtesy of the MGM breach are making their way up into HIBP.