Sat.Jul 18, 2020

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Emotet Botnet Returns After Months-Long Hiatus

Data Breach Today

Security Researchers Detect New Spam Campaigns in US and UK After a nearly six-month hiatus, the Emotet botnet has sprung back to life with a spam campaign targeting the U.S. and U.K., according to multiple security research reports. Victims are hit with phishing emails that contain either a malicious URL or Word document attachment that downloads the malware.

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Emotet botnet surges back after months of absence

Security Affairs

After months of inactivity, the infamous Emotet trojan has surged back with a new massive spam campaign targeting users worldwide. The notorious Emotet went into the dark since February 2020, but now has surged back with a new massive spam campaign targeting users worldwide. The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, the botnet is operated by a threat actor tracked as TA542.

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Iranian Hackers Accidentally Exposed Training Videos

Data Breach Today

IBM: Videos Detail Attacks on US Navy and State Department Personnel An Iranian-backed hacking group appears to have accidentally left over 40 GB of training videos and other material exposed online, according to researchers with IBM who found the unprotected server. The material includes videos detailing attacks aimed at U.S. Navy and State Department personnel.

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Experts warn of massive internet scans for SAP systems affected by RECON Vulnerability

Security Affairs

Hackers have been scanning the Internet for SAP systems affected by RECON vulnerability, researchers from Bad Packets warn. Researchers from Bad Packets reported that threat actors have been scanning the Internet for SAP systems affected by RECON vulnerability , , tracked as CVE-2020-6287. Immediately after a researcher released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for the RECON vulnerability, hackers started the scanning activity.

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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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The EU’s Highest Court Announces Significant Decision Regarding Cross-Border Data Flows: Invalidates EU-US Privacy Shield Program and Upholds Standard Contractual Clauses

Data Matters

In a decision with significant implications for international trade and cross-border data flows, the EU’s highest court – the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ CJEU ”) ruled on 16 July 2020 that a key legal mechanism (called the EU-US Privacy Shield program) used to enable transfers of personal data from the European Union (“ EU ”) was invalid, while also potentially requiring additional protections to be implemented when another key transfer mechanism (called Standard Contractual Clause

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John Lewis of SNCC at the March on Washington

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John Lewis speaking April 16, 1964. (Wikimedia Commons). Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) was with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders for the landmark March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Lewis was then chair of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee when he spoke these words at the Lincoln Memorial. We march to for job and freedom, but we have nothing to be proud of.