Sun.Mar 15, 2020

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Coronavirus-themed attacks February 1 – March 15, 2020

Security Affairs

In this post, I decided to share the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from February 1 to March 15, 2020. February 1, 2020 – Crooks start exploiting Coronavirus as bait to spread malware. Security researchers warn of campaigns aimed at spreading malware that exploits media attention on the COVID-19 epidemic. February 25, 2020 – South Korea suffers from the spread of people infected with Corona 19. ‘ Est security’ found malicious code disguised as a ‘Corona 19 real-t

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Hack Yourself First Workshops in Australia, Denmark and Portugal (Virtually, of Course)

Troy Hunt

Of course it's virtual because let's face it, nobody is going anywhere at the moment. Plenty of you aren't even going into an office any more let alone fronting up to a conference with hundreds or even thousands of people. That sucks for you because you end up both missing out on events and sooner or later, suffering from cabin fever (I've always found that difficult across many years of remote work).

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BlackWater, a malware that uses Cloudflare Workers for C2 Communication

Security Affairs

Crooks continue to abuse the interest in Coronavirus outbreak, now experts found a new backdoor called BlackWater that pretends to provide information about COVID-19. Experts found a new backdoor malware called BlackWater that pretends to provide information about the COVID-19 outbreak while abusing Cloudflare Workers as an interface to the C2 server.

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The Ongoing Battle Over How ESI is Produced: eDiscovery Trends, Part Four

eDiscovery Daily

Editor’s Note: Tom O’Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker, and writer in the field of computerized litigation support systems. He has also been a great addition to our webinar program, participating with me on several recent webinars. Tom has also written several terrific informational overview series for CloudNine, including his most recent one, Mobile Collection: It’s Not Just for iPhones Anymore.

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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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Massive cyber attack hit the town hall of Marseille ahead local election

Security Affairs

While the Coronavirus is spreading worldwide, a massive cyber attack hit the town hall of Marseille and the metropolis. Ahead of the 2020 municipal elections in Marseille that will take place on 15 and March 22, a ‘massive and widespread’ cyber attack hit the city of Marseille as well as the metropolis Aix -Marseille-Provence. The 2020 municipal elections in Marseille aims at electing the councils of the eight sectors of the city, the municipal council and the metropolitan council

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 255

Security Affairs

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Facebook sues Namecheap to protect people from domain name fraud. Netgear fixes a critical RCE that could allow to takeover Flagship Nighthawk routers. New Coronavirus-themed malspam campaign delivers FormBook Malware. The City of Durham shut down its network after Ryuk Ransomware attack.