Fri.Jul 22, 2022

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Cryptocurrency Insider Trading, Fraud in DOJ Crosshairs

Data Breach Today

The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed its first insider trading case involving cryptocurrency markets, marking an escalation of traditional oversight of digital asset trading. The case comes as a federal jury also convicted a New York man for defrauding investors of his supposed cryptocurrency.

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Personal Data Breach Notification – it's time to scrap the unfair rules that have been imposed on Communication Service providers

Data Protector

In August 2013 the European Commission introduced new rules to require Communication Service Providers to report all personal data breaches, no matter how minor, to local data protection regulators within 24 hours of the incident being detected [Art 2]. Reporting delays would result in providers being subject to ICO fines. Significant breaches were also required to be reported to the impacted individuals [Art 3].

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FBI Claws Back Cryptocurrency Ransoms Paid to North Koreans

Data Breach Today

Also: Rise in Maui Ransomware Targeting Healthcare; Navigating the Zero Trust Debate Three ISMG editors discuss important cybersecurity issues, including the sharp rise in Maui ransomware attacks, how the FBI seized cryptocurrency ransom payments worth $500,000 from North Korean attackers and advice for CISOs navigating the great zero trust debate.

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Phishing Bonanza: Social-Engineering Savvy Skyrockets as Malicious Actors Cash In

Dark Reading

The ever-evolving threat from phishing is growing more sophisticated as attackers design high-pressure situations and leverage ever-more-convincing social engineering tactics to increase their success rates.

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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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Account lockout policy in Windows 11 is enabled by default to block block brute force attacks

Security Affairs

Starting with Windows 11 Microsoft introduce by default an account lockout policy that can block brute force attacks. Starting with Windows 11 Insider Preview build 22528.1000 the OS supports an account lockout policy enabled by default to block brute force attacks. The lockout policy was set to limit the number of failed sign-in attempts to 10, for 10 minutes.

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Striving for 100% Completion Rates: Getting Compliance on Your Compliance Training

KnowBe4

At the last few conferences I have attended and spoken at, including our own KB4-CON 2022, I noticed a question that many people have struggled with for years rearing its ugly head again.

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Snowballing Ransomware Variants Highlight Growing Threat to VMware ESXi Environments

Dark Reading

Luna, Black Basta add to rapidly growing list of malware tools targeted at virtual machines deployed on VMware's bare-metal hypervisor technology.

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The Unsolved Mystery Attack on Internet Cables in Paris

WIRED Threat Level

As new details about the scope of the sabotage emerge, the perpetrators—and the reason for their vandalism—remain unknown.

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Understanding Proposed SEC Rules Through an ESG Lens

Dark Reading

Cyber threats are putting environmental, social, and governance discussions at the forefront of board meetings and C-suite discussions around the globe.

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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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Hackers breached Ukrainian radio station to spread fake news about Zelensky ‘s health

Security Affairs

Threat actors hacked the Ukrainian radio station TAVR Media and broadcasted fake news on the critical health condition of President Volodymyr Zelensky. Threat actors breached the Ukrainian radio station TAVR Media this week, the attackers spread a fake message on the health status of the Zelensky. The Kyiv Independent reported that a music program on at least one of the radio stations managed by TAVR was interrupted by false reports about Zelensky’s health at around 1 p.m.

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Thales Expands Cybersecurity Portfolio With OneWelcome Acquisition

Dark Reading

With more staff working remotely, identity, authentication, and access have never been more important.

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TA505 evolves ServHelper, uses Predator The Thief and Team Viewer Hijacking

Outpost24

TA505 evolves ServHelper, uses Predator The Thief and Team Viewer Hijacking. 17.Dec.2019. Florian Barre. Fri, 07/22/2022 - 04:35. Blueliv, an Outpost24 company. Threat Intelligence. Teaser. This blog post will offer some analysis on developments relating to ServHelper, including detail on relevant campaigns and those threat actors related to it. ServHelper was quiet for a while but it is back with several new campaigns from the first week of December 2019.

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Google Chrome Zero-Day Weaponized to Spy on Journalists

Dark Reading

Candiru attackers breached a news agency employee website to target journalists with DevilsTongue spyware, researchers say.

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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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Remote work drives Zero Trust Network Access adoption

Jamf

Is your organization ready to shift its workforce to fully remote or hybrid? Are the endpoints adhering to compliance and/or organizational policies? How do IT or Security teams know confidential data remains secure from unauthorized users or compromised endpoints? Read on how Zero Trust Network Access can alleviate the pain points of migrating your remote workforce by maintaining data security while preserving end-user privacy.

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What Firewalls Can — and Can't — Accomplish

Dark Reading

Understanding the limitations of firewalls is important to protecting the organization from evolving threats.

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Portland to Pay $200K After Losing Public Records Battle via US NEWS

IG Guru

Check out the article here.

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ICYMI: Neopets & the Gaming Problem; SolarWinds Hackers Are Back; Google Ads Abused

Dark Reading

Dark Reading's weekly roundup of all the OTHER important stories of the week.

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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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TOP 5 ATT&CK techniques used by Threat Actors tied to Iran

Outpost24

TOP 5 ATT&CK techniques used by Threat Actors tied to Iran. 10.Jan.2020. Florian Barre. Fri, 07/22/2022 - 03:56. Blueliv, an Outpost24 company. Threat Intelligence. Teaser. False flags and strong anonymity measures can be used to make attribution of cyberattacks more and more difficult.

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Candiru surveillance spyware DevilsTongue exploited Chrome Zero-Day to target journalists

Security Affairs

The spyware developed by Israeli surveillance firm Candiru exploited recently fixed CVE-2022-2294 Chrome zero-day in attacks on journalists. Researchers from the antivirus firm Avast reported that the DevilsTongue spyware, developed, by Israeli surveillance firm Candiru , was used in attacks against journalists in the Middle East and exploited recently fixed CVE-2022-2294 Chrome zero-day.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Bathyteuthis berryi Holding Eggs

Schneier on Security

Image and video of a Bathyteuthis berryi carrying a few hundred eggs, taken at a depth of 4,650 feet. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.