Sat.May 23, 2020

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Ransomware Gang Posting Financial Details From Bank Attack

Data Breach Today

Maze Started Releasing Payment Card Data From Costa Rican Bank This Week The Maze ransomware gang has started releasing payment card data from an attack that happened earlier this year at Banco BCR, which is the state-owned Bank of Costa Rica. The cybercriminal gang is now threatening to release more of customers' financial data each week.

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Riding the State Unemployment Fraud ‘Wave’

Krebs on Security

When a reliable method of scamming money out of people, companies or governments becomes widely known, underground forums and chat networks tend to light up with activity as more fraudsters pile on to claim their share. And that’s exactly what appears to be going on right now as multiple U.S. states struggle to combat a tsunami of phony Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) claims.

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Silent Night Zeus botnet available for sale in underground forums

Security Affairs

Experts reported the existence of a botnet, tracked as Silent Night based on the Zeus banking Trojan that is available for sale in several underground forums. This week researchers from Malwarebytes and HYAS published a report that included technical details on a recently discovered botnet, tracked as Silent Night, being distributed via the RIG exploit kit and COVID-19 malspam campaign. .

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There's a Jailbreak Out for the Current Version of iOS

WIRED Threat Level

The Unc0ver tool works on all versions of iOS from 11 to 13.5, the current release.

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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 Florida Unemployment System suffered a data breach

Security Affairs

Officials revealed that the Florida Unemployment System suffered a data breach that impacted some residents who have made unemployment claims. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity revealed that the Florida Unemployment System suffered a data breach that impacted some residents who have made unemployment claims. It has notified 98 people that have been impacted by the incident, government representatives didn’t disclose when the breach took place either the number of the affected indivi

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Experts observed a spike in COVID-19 related malspam emails containing GuLoader

Security Affairs

Security experts observed a spike in the use of the GuLoader since March 2020 while investigating COVID-19-themed malspam campaigns. Researchers from Vipre Labs observed a spike in the use of GuLoader in COVID-19-themed campaign since March 2020. The discovery confirms that crooks continue to use COVID-19 lures in malspam campaigns. In the campaign monitored by Vipre Labs, attackers used spam email samples containing GuLoader.

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Look Out for This Covid-19 Excel Phishing Scam

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: An iOS leak, an EasyJet breach, and more of the week's top security news.

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Voter information for 2 millions of Indonesians leaked online

Security Affairs

A hacker has leaked the 2014 voter information for close to 2 million Indonesians on a well-known hacker forum and threatens to release 200 million. A threat actor has published the 2014 voter information for close to 2 million Indonesians on a popular hacker forum and threatens to release data for a total of 200 million voters. The dump includes voter records in individual PDF files that were allegedly stolen from the general election commission of Indonesia KPU.

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