Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Police Say Gang Extorted Millions From Victims Not Just by Stealing, But Lying Too Cybercrime experts have long urged victims to never pay a ransom in return for any promise an attacker makes to delete stolen data. That's because, as a recent case highlights, whatever extortionists might promise, stolen personal data is lucrative, and it often gets sold six ways from Sunday.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
A security firm has discovered that a six-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies , which offers paying customers the ability to route their web traffic anonymously through compromised computers. Here’s a closer look at Mylobot, and a deep dive into who may be responsible for operating the BHProxies service.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Group Has Exploited GoAnyWhere MFT Flaw for Ransomware Attacks Federal authorities are urging the healthcare sector to ratchet up defenses against potential assaults by Russian-linked Clop on the heels of the ransomware-as-a-service group's recent alleged mass attacks exploiting a vulnerability in vendor Fortra's secure file transfer software GoAnyWhere MFT.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
On February 24, 2023, following public consultation, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published the following three sets of adopted guidelines: Guidelines on the Interplay between the application of Article 3 and the provisions on international transfers as per Chapter V GDPR (05/2021) ( final version ); Guidelines on certification as a tool for transfers (07/2022) ( final version ); and Guidelines on deceptive design patterns in social media platform interfaces (03/2022) ( final versio
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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
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
IBM Data Shows the Region Accounted for 31% of All Incidents Monitored During 2022 The Asia-Pacific region had the dubious distinction of being the global region that faced the most cyberattacks during 2022, as observed by IBM's threat intelligence platform. IBM says the region accounted for 31% of all incidents monitored during 2022.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Russian Groups Have Been Sending DDoS Attacks to Western Countries The United States is warning domestic and European organizations to be extra vigilant about their presence in cyberspace on the one-year anniversary of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Friday marks 12 months since Moscow initiated a war of conquest against its European neighbor.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency advises US and European nations to prepare for possible website attacks marking the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
An Investigation by Dutch DPC Found Tesla Cars Recorded People Illegally Automaker Tesla revised settings for its in-built cameras after a probe by the Dutch data privacy agency found its default settings enabled illegal recording and retention of data. "Teslas parked on the street were often filming everyone who came near the vehicle," DPA board member Katja Mur said.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
The cloud-native application protection platform market is expanding as security teams look to protect their applications and the software supply chain.
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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.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Passwaters Wants to Help Intel 471 Capture Business From Less-Mature Organizations Intel 471 has promoted second-in-command Jason Passwaters to CEO and tasked him with onboarding less-mature security organizations for narrower use cases. The company plans to land more threat intelligence customers by focusing on areas such as vulnerability management and patch prioritization.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Experts warn of threat actors actively exploiting the critical CVE-2022-47966 (CVSS score: 9.8) flaw in Zoho ManageEngine. Multiple threat actors are actively exploiting the Zoho ManageEngine CVE-2022-47966 (CVSS score: 9.8) in attacks in the wild, Bitdefender Labs reported. “Starting on January 20 2023, Bitdefender Labs started to notice a global increase in attacks using the ManageEngine exploit CVE-2022-47966.” reads the report published by Bitdefender Labs.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Threat Actor Tracked as UAC-0056 Is Behind the Attacks Russian hackers breached and modified several Ukrainian state websites on Thursday morning using a backdoor planted nearly two years ago. Ukraine identified the hackers as belonging to a group tracked as UAC-0056, also known as SaintBear, UNC2589 and TA471.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Employees of the EU Commission are no longer allowed to use the TikTok app thanks to concerns over data security.
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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.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
M&T Bank's Karen Boyer on Why Check Fraud Can't Be Solved With Technology Alone Tools such as image analysis are of little help to banks dealing with check fraud since, most of the time, checks that are deposited are legitimate, says Karen Boyer, senior vice president for financial crimes at M&T Bank. She says the best way to deal with this fraud is to closely monitor accounts.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Researchers warn of an evasive cryptojacking malware targeting macOS which spreads through pirated applications Jamf Threat Labs researchers reported that an evasive cryptojacking malware targeting macOS was spotted spreading under the guise of the Apple-developed video editing software, Final Cut Pro. Trojanized versions of legitimate applications are being used to deploy XMRig cryptocurrency miner on macOS systems. “Further investigation revealed that this malicious version of Final Cut
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Zero Trust Creator John Kindervag on ChatGPT, API Security, MFA Bypass In the latest weekly update, John Kindervag, creator of zero trust and senior vice president of cybersecurity strategy at ON2IT, joins ISMG editors to discuss the top zero trust storylines of the year, the impact of ChatGPT on the cybersecurity industry and how to tackle MFA bypass attacks.
Data Matters
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
In a briefing to the Legislative Council (Hong Kong’s legislative body) on February 20, 2023, the Privacy Commissioner (“ the Commissioner ”) announced that substantive amendments to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (“ PDPO ”) will take place. The post Substantial changes to Hong Kong’s privacy laws coming appeared first on Data Matters Privacy Blog.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Tool Sold on Underground Markets Often Used for Initial Access in Ransomware Attacks A Russian national accused by U.S. federal prosecutors of developing an application for decrypting login credentials pleaded not guilty during a first appearance in Tampa federal court. The man, Dariy Pankov, faces seven criminal counts, including conspiracy, access device fraud and computer fraud.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
One year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns organizations to increase vigilance. Exactly one year, Russia invaded Ukraine, and now one year later the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is urging organizations and individuals to increase vigilance.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
A threat actor has leaked data — purportedly, samples of Telus employee payroll data and source code — on a hacker site.
Micro Focus
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
To help shed light on SecOps and the issues surrounding it, this blog post offers a roundup of some of the most insightful content published in various corners of our site. The post Security Operations: Best Recent Reads first appeared on Micro Focus Blog.
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Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
CISA's recently released cybersecurity performance goals can help lower risk and thwart the impact of cyberattacks.
Jamf
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Part two of this blog series analyses the changes to the Network and Information Security regulations by the European Union, covering aspects of the cybersecurity risk-management measures and how they come together to improve cybersecurity capabilities for organizations.
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
We are on the cusp of a new tech global era. It is no longer good enough to look around corners. We need to look around corners of corners. We need to see the potential before us, and be prepared—to take on new directions, new challenges and new unknowns. We set the stage for the … The post Preparing for Quantum. A Conversation with Scott Aaronson appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
The Guardian Data Protection
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
PM under pressure to follow EU and US in taking step over fears Chinese-owned app poses cybersecurity risk Rishi Sunak has been urged to ban government officials from using TikTok in line with moves by the EU and US, amid growing cybersecurity fears over China. Officials in Europe and the US have been told to limit the use of the Chinese-owned social video app over concerns that data can be accessed by Beijing.
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Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Preparation and cooperation helped to mitigate the worst of the digital damage, amid cyber sorties from all sides.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Defence Cyber Marvel 2 (DCM2) is the largest Western Europe-led cyber exercise that took place in Tallinn with 34 teams from 11 countries. The Defence Cyber Marvel 2 (DCM2) is the largest training exercise organised by the Army Cyber Association to allow personnel from across the Armed Forces to build their skills within the cyber and electromagnetic domain.
Jamf
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
In the last blog of the Top Security Priorities series, we’ll discuss common cyber attack vectors and the stages of incident response.
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