Data Breach Today
AUGUST 5, 2022
Increased collaboration between the public and private sectors hasn't slowed the increased frequency and ease of ransomware intrusions, but efforts to change the financial incentives of ransomware are having "a pretty good effect," says Marc Rogers, vice president of cybersecurity strategy at Okta.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 5, 2022
RapperBot is a new botnet employed in attacks since mid-June 2022 that targets Linux SSH servers with brute-force attacks. Researchers from FortiGuard Labs have discovered a new IoT botnet tracked as RapperBot which is active since mid-June 2022. The bot borrows a large portion of its code from the original Mirai botnet, but unlike other IoT malware families, it implements a built-in capability to brute force credentials and gain access to SSH servers instead of Telnet as implemented in Mirai.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 5, 2022
Alexander Vinnik Makes First Apperance in US Federal Court Accused cryptocurrency money launder Alexander Vinnik made his first appearance in U.S. federal court today. The Russian national faces 55 years imprisonment for his alleged involvement in laundering hacking proceeds through bitcoin on the BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 5, 2022
A threat actor, tracked as TAC-040, exploited Atlassian Confluence flaw CVE-2022-26134 to deploy previously undetected Ljl Backdoor. Cybersecurity firm Deepwatch reported that a threat actor, tracked as TAC-040, has likely exploited the CVE-2022-26134 flaw in Atlassian Confluence servers to deploy a previously undetected backdoor dubbed Ljl Backdoor.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 5, 2022
DDoS Attacks Intensify Worldwide Amid Geopolitical Unrest An unnamed Eastern Europe company became a victim of that continent's largest-ever distributed denial-of-service attack, says Akamai. The report comes in a season with a record-breaking volume of DDoS attacks, fueled greatly by geopolitical events led by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 5, 2022
Also: BEC Attack Headaches and Inside the Nomad Bridge Hack In the latest weekly update, four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss key takeaways from ISMG's recent Government Summit, how hackers siphoned nearly $200 million from cryptocurrency bridge Nomad and how midsized businesses are the new frontier for ransomware.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 5, 2022
The U.S. DHS warns of critical security vulnerabilities in Emergency Alert System (EAS) encoder/decoder devices. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned of critical security vulnerabilities in Emergency Alert System (EAS) encoder/decoder devices. Threat actors could exploit the flaws to send fake emergency alerts via TV, radio networks, and cable networks.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 5, 2022
Council Looks to Enhance Quality, Utility and Clarity Information to Be Collected The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council is asking for comments regarding the Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, the ostensibly voluntary way for banks and credit unions to self-assess exposure to risk and the maturity of their cybersecurity.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 5, 2022
For the right price, threat actors can get just about anything they want to launch a ransomware attack — even without technical skills or any previous experience.
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.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 5, 2022
A Third-Party Vendor to the UK's Health System Is Apparently at Center of Issues The U.K.'s National Health Service is experiencing IT outages resulting from a cyberattack on a third-party vendor. Birmingham-based technology provider Advanced's Adastra system supplies digital services for urgent healthcare services number 111.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 5, 2022
Twitter confirmed that the recent data breach that exposed data of 5.4 million accounts was caused by the exploitation of a zero-day flaw. At the end of July, a threat actor leaked data of 5.4 million Twitter accounts that were obtained by exploiting a now-fixed vulnerability in the popular social media platform. The threat actor offered for sale the stolen data on the popular hacking forum Breached Forums.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 5, 2022
The impending recession should accelerate cloud adoption as firms look to reduce infrastructure costs, but these moves will introduce a new set of security challenges. Arctic Wolf Chief Product Officer Dan Schiappa predicts many companies will start building security into their applications sooner.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 5, 2022
Dark Utilities “C2-as-a-Service” is attracting a growing number of customers searching for a command-and-control for their campaigns. The popularity of the Dark Utilities “C2-as-a-Service” is rapidly increasing, over 3,000 users are already using it as command-and-control for their campaigns. Dark Utilities was launched in early 2022, the platform that provides full-featured C2 capabilities to its users.
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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
AUGUST 5, 2022
Advisories Recommend Entities Take Steps for Prevention and Mitigation Federal authorities, in two separate advisories issued Thursday, urge healthcare sector entities to proactively address security risks from internet of things devices equipped with sensors, software and other technologies to connect and exchange data over the internet and from open web applications.
Threatpost
AUGUST 5, 2022
Separate phishing campaigns targeting thousands of victims impersonate FedEx and Microsoft, among others, to trick victims.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 5, 2022
'Give Us Back 90% and We'll Say You're a Good Guy,' Says Cryptocurrency Bridge The hackers who stole $190 million from cross-chain bridge Nomad stand to keep up to 10% of the loot and escape civil liability and criminal prosecution. The only caveat: They must return the rest of the money. Then, the firm says, it will label them as white hats and won't pursue legal action.
Troy Hunt
AUGUST 5, 2022
A very early weekly update this time after an especially hectic week. The process with the couple of data breaches in particular was a real time sap and it shouldn't be this hard. Seriously, the amount of effort that goes into trying to get organisations to own their breach (or if they feel strongly enough about it, help attribute it to another party) is just nuts.
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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.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 5, 2022
Development of digital gateways to protect the places where we live, work, and converse need to be secure and many doors need to offer restricted access.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 5, 2022
The popular security devices are tracking (and sharing) more than you might think.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 5, 2022
As the market for initial access brokers matures, services like Genesis — which offers elite access to compromised systems and slick, professional services — are raising the bar in the underground economy.
OpenText Information Management
AUGUST 5, 2022
Fifth year running as a market leader underpinned by investments in AI, content services and customer data platforms The OpenTextTM Experience Platform for Communications solution was recently recognized as a Leader in the 2022 Aspire LeaderboardTM for Communications Experience Platforms (CXP). The 2022 Aspire Leaderboard analyzed the CXP market for the first time, reflecting the … The post OpenText named a leader in the 2022 Aspire CCM-CXM Leaderboard appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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Dark Reading
AUGUST 5, 2022
This Tech Tip outlines how DevOps teams can address security integration issues in their CI/CD pipelines.
IG Guru
AUGUST 5, 2022
Check out this article featured in 2022 to learn more about the history of the Institute of Certified Records Managers (ICRM).
Dark Reading
AUGUST 5, 2022
Over the past few weeks, a Mirai variant appears to have made a pivot from infecting new servers to maintaining remote access.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 5, 2022
The exposure of cryptographically scrambled passwords isn’t a worst-case scenario—but it isn’t great, either.
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Dark Reading
AUGUST 5, 2022
With names, email addresses, and mobile numbers from underground databases, one person in five is at risk of account compromise even with SMS two-factor authentication in place.
ITPro.TV
AUGUST 5, 2022
Do you want to get started in a career in cybersecurity but aren’t sure what your first steps should be? There is a huge demand for people like you to build great careers in this growing sector. According to CyberSeek, there are more than 700,000 jobs needed in the cybersecurity field. Starting any career can … Continue reading Three things you need to know to get started in cybersecurity → The post Three things you need to know to get started in cybersecurity appeared first o
OneHub
AUGUST 5, 2022
Why do companies use online collaboration productivity software? Let’s get right to it. A productive team is one that works together with ease, unhindered by location, time, or technology. Which is why online collaboration software is becoming a must-have for more and more businesses. The advantages of online collaboration tools are many, but at the core it’s about getting the most out of every employee and collaboration partner on every project without wearing people down or burning them out.
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