Mon.Nov 15, 2021

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QAKBOT Trojan returns using Squirrelwaffle as a dropper

Security Affairs

Experts warn of a surge in infections of the QBot (aka Quakbot) banking trojan which seems to be associated with the rise of Squirrelwaffle. Researchers warn of a new wave of QBot (aka Qakbot ) banking trojan infections that appears to be associated with the rise of Squirrelwaffle. “Toward the end of September 2021, we noted that QAKBOT operators resumed email spam operations after an almost three-month hiatus.

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GUEST ESSAY: The three horsemen of cyber risks: misinformation, disinformation and fake news

The Last Watchdog

Industry 4.0 has brought about a metamorphosis in the world of business. The new revolution demands the integration of physical, biological and digital systems under one roof. Related: Fake news leveraged in presidential election. Such a transformation however, comes with its own set of risks. Misleading information has emerged as one of the leading cyber risks in our society, affecting political leaders, nations, and people’s lives, with the COVID-19 pandemic having only made it worse.

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How encryption can help address Cloud misconfiguration

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

How encryption can help address Cloud misconfiguration. divya. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 06:15. Cloud service providers (CSPs) try to make it simple and easy for their users to comply with data privacy regulations and mandates. Still, as all of us who work in technology know, you reduce access to granular controls when you simplify a process. On the flip side, if you allow access to granular controls, the person setting the controls needs to be an expert to set them correctly.

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Cloudflare mitigated 2 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest attack it has seen to date

Security Affairs

Cloudflare announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at almost 2 terabytes per second (Tbps). Cloudflare, Inc. is an American web infrastructure and website security company that provides content delivery network and DDoS mitigation services. The company announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked just below 2 terabytes per second (Tbps), which is the largest attack Cloudflare has seen to date.

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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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6 Tips To Keep in Mind for Ransomware Defense

Dark Reading

Ransomware is everywhere, including the nightly news. Most people know what it is, but how do ransomware attackers get in, and how can we defend against them?

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8 Tips To Keep in Mind for Ransomware Defense

Dark Reading

Ransomware is everywhere, including the nightly news. Most people know what it is, but how do ransomware attackers get in, and how can we defend against them?

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Operation Reacharound – Emotet malware is back

Security Affairs

The Emotet botnet is still active, ten months after an international operation coordinated by Europol shut down its infrastructure. Early this year, law enforcement and judicial authorities worldwide conducted a joint operation , named Operation Ladybird , which disrupted the EMOTET botnet. At the time the investigators have taken control of its infrastructure in an international coordinated action. .

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Hacker Compromises FBI Server to Send Fake Emails

eSecurity Planet

Hackers got into an email server at the FBI over the weekend to spread fake messages in an attempt to blame a cybersecurity expert for non-existent attacks, apparently in hopes of damaging his reputation. According to intelligence organization Spamhaus and subsequent reports, the hackers sent out emails with the false accusations in two waves to more than 100,000 addresses, using email addresses gleaned from a number of sources, including a database used by the American Registry for Internet Num

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Microsoft rolled out emergency updates to fix Windows Server auth failures

Security Affairs

Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address authentication issues affecting Windows Server. Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to fix authentication failures related to Kerberos delegation scenarios impacting Domain Controllers (DC) running Windows Server. These issues impacts Windows Server 2019 and lower versions, including Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, and Windows Server 2008 SP2.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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.

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High-Severity Intel Processor Bug Exposes Encryption Keys

Threatpost

CVE-2021-0146, arising from a debugging functionality with excessive privileges, allows attackers to read encrypted files.

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North Korea-linked Lazarus group targets cybersecurity experts with Trojanized IDA Pro

Security Affairs

North Korea-linked APT Lazarus targets security researchers using a trojanized pirated version of the popular IDA Pro reverse engineering software. ESET researchers reported that the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group is targeting cyber security community with a trojanized pirated version of the popular IDA Pro reverse engineering software. Threat actors bundled the IDA Pro 7.5 software with two malicious components. “Attackers replaced win_fw.dll, an internal component that is executed

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FBI sends fake cyber threat alert after being hacked by spammer

IT Governance

Cyber criminals have compromised the FBI’s email system, sending hundreds of thousands of people spam messages warning of a cyber attack. The criminal’s motives were initially unclear, with the FBI confirming that no personal data was exposed except for the recipients’ email addresses. Similarly, the emails didn’t contain malicious attachments or links, which suggests that the emails weren’t sent as part of a cyber attack.

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FBI Says Its System Was Exploited to Email Fake Cyberattack Alert

Threatpost

The alert was mumbo jumbo, but it was indeed sent from the bureau's. email system, from the agency’s own internet address.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Azure AZ-900 study guide: How to pass Microsoft Azure Fundamentals first time

IT Governance

The Microsoft Azure Z-900 Fundamentals certification is ideal for those starting their career in Cloud computing. Microsoft’s exam description notes that the qualification demonstrates candidates’ “fundamental knowledge of cloud concepts, as well as Azure services, workloads, security, privacy, pricing, and support”. And with over 250 million Office 365 users worldwide , there has never been a better time to gain a Microsoft qualification.

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Happy 10th Birthday, Security Affairs

Security Affairs

Ten years together! I’m very excited. I launched Security Affairs for passion in 2011 and millions of readers walked with me. Thanks. Ten years ago I launched Security Affairs, the blog over the past decade obtained important successes in the cyber security community, but the greatest one is your immense affection. Over the past decade, I have recovered tens of thousand stories focusing mainly on cybercrime, information warfare, hacktivism and computer security.

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Cybercriminals Target Alibaba Cloud for Cryptomining, Malware

Threatpost

Malicious groups disable features in Alibaba Cloud ECS instances for Monero cryptojacking, according to Trend Micro researchers.

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How to Negotiate With Ransomware Attackers

Dark Reading

Security researchers investigate the ransom negotiation process to create strategies businesses can use if they face an attack.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Securing Your Smartphone

Schneier on Security

This is part 3 of Sean Gallagher’s advice for “securing your digital life.

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ARMA Partner Webinar: Straight Talk on Automation: Getting the Right Stuff Done with AI, RPA, and ML on Thursday, November 18 at 1pm Central

IG Guru

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Robotic Process Automation (RPA). To some, these terms represent the pinnacle of digital transformation, with the potential to modernize how organizations do business. For others, they are the over-hyped “shiny new object” whose real-world value is murky. If you peel away the acronyms, the underlying technology can, and […].

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Immersive Labs Acquires Snap Labs to Power Cyber Simulations With New Depth and Realism

Dark Reading

Integrated offering to deliver hyper-realistic team exercises specific to customer environments for more relevant cyber knowledge, skills, and judgment.

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Book Sale: Click Here to Kill Everybody and Data and Goliath

Schneier on Security

For a limited time, I am selling signed copies of Click Here to Kill Everybody and Data and Goliath , both in paperback, for just $6 each plus shipping. I have 500 copies of each book available. When they’re gone, the sale is over and the price will revert to normal. Order here and here. Please be patient on delivery. It’s a lot of work to sign and mail hundreds of books.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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3 Must-Know Technologies to Protect Your Hybrid Workforce

Dark Reading

Zero-trust, SASE, and XDR have similar goals, but they differ in their approaches to protecting businesses and users.

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De-risk your cybersecurity program

OpenText Information Management

Cyber resilience is no longer optional, it is an essential component of Information Management to protect the most valuable assets: data and business processes. Effective cybersecurity should essentially contain a risk mitigation program that covers the unknown – equipping organizations with reactive and proactive capabilities to prevent, discover and respond to threats from insiders, cybercriminals … The post De-risk your cybersecurity program appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Name That Toon: Cubicle for Four

Dark Reading

Feeling creative? Submit your caption and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 Amazon gift card.

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The Best Ransomware Response, According to the Data 

Threatpost

An analysis of ransomware attack negotiation-data offers best practices.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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MacOS Zero-Day Used in Watering-Hole Attacks

Dark Reading

Attackers targeted Chinese pro-democracy groups using a vulnerability fixed in September along with a second vulnerability fixed early in the year, Google says.

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Get Connected: Collaborate and Innovate

OpenText Information Management

It’s no secret that engineering just about anything requires the work of an entire team, and these days that can be remarkably complex. With remote working increasingly becoming a norm, the complexities of industrial design and manufacturing processes, and shifting regulatory landscapes that can have impacts on product development the need for transparent processes, streamlined … The post Get Connected: Collaborate and Innovate appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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The Troubling Rise of Internet Access Brokers

Dark Reading

Criminal groups are ramping up use of IABs to get access to networks without having to deal with the initial reconnaissance and intrusion phases.

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