Sat.Jul 25, 2020

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FBI Warns US Firms Over Malware in Chinese Tax Software

Data Breach Today

Alert Follows Trustwave Reports on Backdoors Hidden in Tax Software In a private industry alert, the FBI is warning U.S. firms of possible malware hidden in tax software the Chinese government requires companies doing business in the nation to use. The warning follows reports by Trustwave about backdoors that can give hackers access to entire networks.

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AI Helped Uncover Chinese Boats Hiding in North Korean Waters

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A combination of technologies helped scientists discover a potentially illegal fishing operation involving more than 900 vessels.

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Lazarus Group Deploying Fresh Malware Framework

Data Breach Today

Kaspersky: MATA Framework Used to Spread Ransomware, Steal Databases Lazarus Group, a sophisticated hacking group associated with the North Korean government, is using a new malware framework to spread ransomware and steal databases from victims, according to security firm Kaspersky.

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US CISA warns of attacks exploiting CVE-2020-5902 flaw in F5 BIG-IP

Security Affairs

The U.S. CISA is warning of the active exploitation of the unauthenticated remote code execution CVE-2020-5902 vulnerability affecting F5 Big-IP ADC devices. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert about the active exploitation of the unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) CVE-2020-5902 vulnerability affecting F5 Big-IP ADC devices.

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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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Russia Tested a Space Weapon Last Week

WIRED Threat Level

Twitter hack details, a botnet vigilante, and more of the week's top security news.

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7 Summer Travel Security Tips

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With staying safe during the pandemic high priority, it's easy to let your guard down about the security of the devices you take along your travels.

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Threat actors are hijacking the infamous Emotet botnet

Security Affairs

A sort of vigilante is attempting to disrupt the operations of the Emotet botnet by hacking the supply chain of the malware. Someone is attempting to sabotage the operations of the Emotet botnet by replacing the Emotet payloads with animated GIFs, in this way the victims will not be infected with the bot. The mysterious activity was observed in the past few days, the hackers targeted the Emotet’s distribution channel composed of compromised websites used to host the malicious payloads distribut