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Biden Orders Investigation of Kaseya Ransomware Attack

Data Breach Today

REvil Malware Suspected of Infecting Scores of IT Management Companies, Clients U.S. President Joe Biden has ordered federal intelligence agencies to investigate the incident involving IT management software vendor Kaseya. Attackers reportedly compromised Kaseya's remote monitoring system, VSA, potentially impacting scores of managed service providers and their clients.

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REvil gang exploited a zero-day in the Kaseya supply chain attack

Security Affairs

Kaseya was addressing the zero-day vulnerability that REvil ransomware gang exploited to breach on-premise Kaseya VSA servers. A new supply chain attack made the headlines, on Friday the REvil ransomware gang hit the Kaseya cloud-based MSP platform impacting MSPs and their customers. The REvil ransomware operators initially compromised the Kaseya VSA’s infrastructure, then pushed out malicious updates for VSA on-premise servers to deploy ransomware on enterprise networks.

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Kaseya Ransomware: 'Largest Attack I've Witnessed so Far'

Data Breach Today

Since Friday afternoon, Mark Loman of Sophos has been immersed in studying the scope and impact of the ransomware attack spread through Kaseya VSA's remote management platform. And he's learned enough about it to say without reservation: This the largest ransomware attack he's seen.

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Coop supermarket closes hundreds of stores after Kaseya supply chain ransomware attack

Security Affairs

Swedish supermarket chain Coop is the first company to disclose the impact of the recent supply chain ransomware attack that hit Kaseya. The supermarket chain Coop shut down approximately 500 stores as a result of the supply chain ransomware attack that hit the provider Kaseya. The REvil ransomware operators initially compromised the Kaseya VSA’s infrastructure, then pushed out malicious updates for VSA on-premise servers to deploy ransomware on enterprise networks. “We first noticed probl

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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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How REvil Ransomware Took Out Thousands of Business at Once

WIRED Threat Level

More details have come to light as to how the notorious hacking group pulled off its unprecedented attack.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 321

Security Affairs

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here. Crackonosh Monero miner made $2M after infecting 222,000 Win systems Hackers target Cisco ASA devices after a PoC exploit code was published online Microsoft investigates threat actor distributing malicious Netfilter Driver Six typosquatting packages in PyPI repositor

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