Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

Chinese cyberespionage group Velvet Ant was spotted using custom malware to target F5 BIG-IP appliances to breach target networks. In late 2023, Sygnia researchers responded to an incident suffered by a large organization that they attributed to a China-linked threat actor tracked as ‘Velvet Ant.’ The cyberspies deployed custom malware on F5 BIG-IP appliances to gain persistent access to the internal network of the target organization and steal sensitive data.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 17, 2024

CCTV cameras and AI are being combined to monitor crowds, detect bike thefts, and spot trespassers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

Offers that promise easy earnings can also bring with them a host of scams that deceive those who are genuinely seeking income opportunities. Often, behind these enticing offers are pyramid schemes in which profits are generated through the recruitment of new participants, rather than through actual service, sometimes even causing significant financial losses.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 17, 2024

A ShinyHunters hacker tells WIRED that they gained access to Ticketmaster’s Snowflake cloud account—and others—by first breaching a third-party contractor.

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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

Marketing

Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

Federal authorities charged two individuals with operating the dark web marketplace Empire Market that facilitated over $430 million in illegal transactions. Two men, Thomas Pavey (aka “Dopenugget”) and Raheim Hamilton (aka “Sydney” and “Zero Angel”), have been charged in federal court in Chicago for operating the dark web marketplace “ Empire Market ” from 2018 to 2020.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

A joint law enforcement operation led to the arrest of a key member of the cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider. Spanish police arrested a 22-year-old British national who is suspected of being a key member of the cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider (also known as UNC3944 , 0ktapus ). The man was arrested in Palma de Mallorca while attempting to fly to Italy, during the arrest, police confiscated a laptop and a mobile phone.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 17, 2024

US Cyber Defense Agency Developing AI Security Incident Collaboration Playbook The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is hosting a series of tabletop exercises through its flagship public-private collaborative while developing a new playbook for both sectors to better respond to emerging cybersecurity risks associated with artificial intelligence.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

The County of Los Angeles’ Department of Public Health (DPH) disclosed a data breach that impacted more than 200,000 individuals. The LA County’s Department of Public Health announced that the personal information of more than 200,000 was compromised after a data breach that occurred between February 19 and February 20, 2024. Threat actors obtained the log-in credentials of 53 Public Health employees through a phishing campaign. “Between February 19, 2024, and February 20, 2024, the Los An

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 17, 2024

CISO and Acting Deputy CIO La Monte Yarborough on Building a Culture of Security The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is actively enhancing its cybersecurity measures to protect sensitive health data. CISO and Acting Deputy CIO La Monte Yarborough outlined the measures HHS is taking to protect sensitive data and critical infrastructure amid rising threats.

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Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Collaboration 2.0

JUNE 17, 2024

Ever run up against Gmail's 25MB file size limitation? Here's an easy way to get around it. (This tip works with other email clients, too!

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 17, 2024

Hospitals Says Restoring the Affected IT Systems Will Take Weeks The ransomware attack on a key U.K. National Health Service IT vendor has forced two London hospitals to reschedule around 1,500 medical appointments including critical cancer treatments and organ transplant surgeries. The disruption is now in its third week.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 17, 2024

Interesting research: “ Teams of LLM Agents can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities.” Abstract: LLM agents have become increasingly sophisticated, especially in the realm of cybersecurity. Researchers have shown that LLM agents can exploit real-world vulnerabilities when given a description of the vulnerability and toy capture-the-flag problems.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 17, 2024

Artificial intelligence technologies offer tremendous promise in healthcare, but it's crucial for organizations to carefully assess the complex data privacy concerns involved with different types of AI products and deployments, said Karen Habercoss, chief privacy officer at UChicago Medicine.

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Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 17, 2024

Increasing phishing attacks are a constant threat to organizations, making it crucial for users to report suspicious emails.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 17, 2024

Hackers Used Dozens of Servers to Distribute Malicious Android Apps Law enforcement authorities in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan took down a cybercrime ring that used dozens of servers and hundreds of phishing pages across multiple jurisdictions to run a malware-enabled scam operation and steal tens of millions from victims' bank accounts.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 17, 2024

Researchers at Trustwave warn that a phishing campaign is distributing malware via HTML attachments disguised as invoices. Notably, the HTML files abuse the Windows Search protocol to launch Windows Explorer and trick users into installing the malware.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 17, 2024

Court Filing: Threat Actor Stole Admin Credentials From IT Service Desk Contractor Medibank's lack of MFA on its global VPN allowed a hacker to use credentials stolen from an IT services desk contractor to access the private health insurer's IT systems in 2022, leading to a dark web data leak affecting 9.7 million individuals, Australian regulators said in court documents.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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KnowBe4

JUNE 17, 2024

Cybercriminals are broadening their targets to include even local political candidates, as an escalating series of phishing attacks was recently directed at school board candidates in Colorado.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 17, 2024

Justice Says Sagar Steven Singh and Nicholas Ceraolo Doxed and Threatened Victims Hackers Sagar Steven Singh and Nicholas Ceraolo pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to conspiring to commit computer intrusion and aggravated identity theft after illegally accessing a nonpublic law enforcement database, according to the Justice Department.

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CILIP

JUNE 17, 2024

Libraries and the fight against truth decay Truth decay is the diminishing role of facts and analysis in public life, it is a phenomenon that erodes civil discourse, causes political paralysis, and leads to general uncertainty around what is and is not. Stijn Hoorens, Director, RAND Europe will join CILIP Conference 2024 as keynote speaker with a talk on truth decay that will shed light on how libraries can help to counter it.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 17, 2024

Hackers Can Use the Attack Method to Manipulate ML Model Output and Steal Data Researchers have found a new way of poisoning machine learning models that could allow hackers to steal data and manipulate the artificial intelligence unit's output. Using the Sleepy Pickle attack method, hackers can inject malicious code into the serialization process, said Trail of Bits.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

Record Nations

JUNE 17, 2024

Today’s businesses rely on technology to simplify their operations and increase efficiency. Cloud storage is an essential component of the technological advances businesses use daily. In fact, recent statistics show that 60% of all corporate data is now stored in the cloud with numbers projected to increase. Businesses choose cloud storage because of its.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 17, 2024

Guide to Achieving ISO27001:2022 Compliance glenn.hamilton… Tue, 06/18/2024 - 06:01 ISO/IEC 27001:2022 , the latest edition of the internationally recognized standard for information security management systems (ISMS), introduces several significant updates and revisions to address the evolving security challenges that worldwide organizations face. One of the most significant changes in the standard is the overhaul of Annex A, which now aligns closely with the updates introduced in ISO/IEC 2700

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National Archives Records Express

JUNE 17, 2024

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season began June 1st and runs through November 30th. NOAA has forecast a range of 17 to 25 total named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher). Of those, 8 to 13 could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including 4 to 7 major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5; with winds of 111 mph or higher). NOAA has a 70% confidence in these ranges.

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Reltio

JUNE 17, 2024

The need for real-time, trusted, unified data has never been greater. The biggest challenge facing enterprises is effectively harnessing the vast amounts of information at their disposal. Those who can swiftly overcome the hurdles of data management can gain a significant competitive edge, enabling them to make informed decisions, innovate faster, and deliver superior customer experiences in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

Marketing

Jamf

JUNE 17, 2024

Explore the essentials of enterprise identity management in our in-depth post. Discover how to enhance security and streamline operations in your business.

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OpenText Information Management

JUNE 17, 2024

Government agencies are making strides on their cloud migration journey, but there is still progress to be made. At OpenText, we are well-situated to help public sector agencies move to the cloud. Our Cloud for Government solution has been listed on the FedRAMP marketplace as fully authorized, providing a low-risk, highly secure content management cloud option for the public sector.

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