Fri.Jul 15, 2022

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H0lyGh0st Ransomware Linked to North Korean Hackers

Data Breach Today

Small and Mid-Size Businesses Targeted Globally But So Far Extortion Attempts Have Failed Microsoft security researches say they're tracking a hacking group originating from North Korea that may be a side project of an established threat actor. So far the group, which likes the moniker "H0lyGh0st," appears not to have collected any ransom.

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Holy Ghost ransomware operation is linked to North Korea

Security Affairs

Microsoft researchers linked the Holy Ghost ransomware (H0lyGh0st) operation to North Korea-linked threat actors. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) researchers linked the activity of the Holy Ghost ransomware (H0lyGh0st) operation to a North Korea-linked group they tracked as DEV-0530. The Holy Ghost ransomware gang has been active since June 2021 and it conducted ransomware attacks against small businesses in multiple countries.

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Too Much Remains Unknown About Data Breaches

Data Breach Today

Attempts to Accurately Track Breaches and Ransomware Hampered by Scarce Details Ransomware attacks and data breaches: One thing both have in common is the challenge of attempting to accurately understand their true scale and impact. Too often, data breach notifications lack useful details, while ransomware attacks and ransom payments go unreported.

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RedAlert, LILITH, and 0mega, 3 new ransomware in the wild 

Security Affairs

Cyble researchers warn of three new ransomware operations named Lilith, RedAlert and 0mega targeting organizations worldwide. Researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble warn of new ransomware gangs that surfaced recently, named Lilith, RedAlert, and 0mega. RedAlert (aka N13V) targets both Windows and Linux VMWare ESXi servers of target organizations.

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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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Bishop Fox Raises $75M to Fortify Offensive Security Muscle

Data Breach Today

The Money Will Fuel Bishop Fox's Visibility and Continuous Testing for All Services Bishop Fox has closed a $75 million funding round to strengthen its visibility and continuous testing capabilities across all service offerings. The company will go from having just its attack surface testing on the Cosmos platform to all service offerings, including app pen testing and red teaming.

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Log4j Flaw Is 'Endemic', Says Cyber Safety Review Board

Data Breach Today

Software Bill of Materials Among Recommended Mitigations A flaw in Log4j is an "endemic vulnerability," says the Cyber Safety Review Board, a panel of U.S. public and private sector security experts. Despite a flurry of warnings, many systems remain open to hackers exploiting unpatched systems, ensuring that what seemed like a sprint is a marathon.

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Netwrix Auditor Bug Could Lead to Active Directory Domain Compromise

Dark Reading

IT asset tracker and auditor software has a critical issue with insecure object deserialization that could allow threat actors to execute code, researchers say.

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Synthetic ID Fraud: Continuous Monitoring Is the Key

Data Breach Today

Greg Woolf of FiVerty on How the Fed's SIF Tool Kits Have Helped Banks Synthetic identity fraud can take eight to 12 months before resulting in mass fraud, meaning banks must leverage that opening to reauthenticate customers, says, Greg Woolf, founder and CEO of FiVerity. Synthetic IDs are often hard to detect, but "over a period of time, there are telltale signs.

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Irish Data Protection Commission Moves to Block Meta Transfers

Hunton Privacy

On July 7, 2022, the Irish Data Protection Commission (the “DPC”) sent a draft decision to other EU data protection authorities, proposing to block Meta’s transfers of personal data from the EU to the United States. The DPC commenced an inquiry to assess the legality of Meta’s EU-U.S. transfers in the wake of the invalidation of the Privacy Shield in the 2020 Schrems II decision.

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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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ISMG Editors: Analyzing the Predatory Sparrow Attack

Data Breach Today

Also: Cyberthreat Activity in Sri Lanka; Cyber Insurance Trends Four ISMG editors discuss important cybersecurity issues, including lessons learned from the cyberattack on a steelmaker in Iran that caused a serious fire, how the economic crisis in Sri Lanka is affecting cybersecurity and what the rising cost of cyber insurance means for the industry.

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Tainted password-cracking software for industrial systems used to spread P2P Sality bot

Security Affairs

Dragos researchers uncovered a small-scale campaign targeting industrial engineers and operators with Sality malware. During a routine vulnerability assessment, Dragos researchers discovered a campaign targeting industrial engineers and operators with Sality malware. Threat actors behind the campaign used multiple accounts across several social media platforms to advertise password-cracking software for Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Human-Machine Interface (HMI), and project files.

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Crime Watch: Why Are Ransomware Attacks Intensifying?

Data Breach Today

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes why the number of ransomware attacks and the amounts being paid in ransoms are both on the rise. It also discusses today's cyberthreat landscape and whether organizations should rely on user training to improve security.

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How Hackers Create Fake Personas for Social Engineering

Dark Reading

And some ways to up your game for identifying fabricated online profiles of people who don't exist.

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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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San Francisco Police Want Real-Time Access to Private Surveillance Cameras

Schneier on Security

Surely no one could have predicted this : The new proposal—championed by Mayor London Breed after November’s wild weekend of orchestrated burglaries and theft in the San Francisco Bay Area—would authorize the police department to use non-city-owned security cameras and camera networks to live monitor “significant events with public safety concerns” and ongoing felony or misdemeanor violations.

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How Attackers Could Dupe Developers into Downloading Malicious Code From GitHub

Dark Reading

Developers need to be cautious about whom they trust on GitHub because it's easy to establish fake credibility on the platform, security vendor warns.

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Weekly Update 304

Troy Hunt

It's very much a last-minute agenda this week as I catch up on the inevitable post-travel backlog and pretty much just pick stuff from my tweet timeline over the week 😊 But hey, there's some good stuff in there and I still managed to knock out almost an hour worth of content! References La Poste Mobile got themselves ransom'd and their data dumped (and they're still offline) Mangatoon are very clearly covering up their breach (which is now hard to do given it's i

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What Are the Risks of Employees Going on a 'Hybrid Holiday'?

Dark Reading

As more employees plan on taking longer holidays and working remotely from the destination for part of that time, organizations have to consider the risks. Like Wi-Fi networks.

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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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Emerging H0lyGh0st Ransomware Tied to North Korea

Threatpost

Microsoft has linked a threat that emerged in June 2021 and targets small-to-mid-sized businesses to state-sponsored actors tracked as DEV-0530.

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Ex-CIA Programmer Found Guilty of Stealing Vault 7 Data, Giving It to Wikileaks

Dark Reading

Joshua Schulte has been convicted for his role in the Vault 7 Wikileaks data dump that exposed invasive US cyber intelligence tactics.

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Four reasons to make eDiscovery in the cloud work to your advantage   

OpenText Information Management

The general benefits of cloud computing are well understood by CIOs and business unit owners. That is, they can trade fixed capital (infrastructure) expenses for variable expenses, reduce reliance on IT and improve agility and speed delivery through faster deployment, onboarding and scalability. It is no surprise that CIOs are fast-tracking moving IT and data-intensive … The post Four reasons to make eDiscovery in the cloud work to your advantage appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Google Data Safety Forms must be submitted by July 20, 2022

Data Protection Report

Google’s Data Safety Forms must be submitted by July 20, 2022. According to Google, failing to post by July 20, 2022 can result in the rejection of new Google Play app submissions. After July 20,200, non-compliant apps could face removal from the Google Play. It’s the business’s job to take ownership over the accuracy of the labels and it is imperative that they be completed in time to avoid non-compliance.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Our Journey to a More Sustainable Future: Micro Focus Publishes First Sustainability Report

Micro Focus

Making sustainable and responsible business core to the way we operate is one of our greatest responsibilities at Micro Focus. Not only is it the right thing to do; it drives meaningful value for our customers and partners, employees, society and the planet.

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Setting a Digital Transformation Strategy: Shaw Education Trust

Jamf

Effective technology initiatives in the classroom begin with planning. Shaw Education Trust shares how they developed their successful people-first strategy to transform their students’ learning experiences. Part one of a three-part series of videos.

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What You Need to Know About Strong Customer Authentication With 3DS2 (3D Secure 2.0)

HID Global

What You Need to Know About Strong Customer Authentication With 3DS2 (3D Secure 2.0). kpetocz. Fri, 07/15/2022 - 09:19.

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Find Out Why a Top Analyst Firm Grants DocuWare Expert Status

Docuware

It’s always exciting to be featured in an industry analyst’s report. We’re so pleased to be included. Nucleus Research’s most recent Research Note, CSC (Content Services & Collaboration) Technology Value Matrix. Nucleus, a global provider of technology research and advisory services, publishes these Research Notes every year in each of its core areas of interest.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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HID Global Wins Frost & Sullivan 2022 Enabling Technology Leadership Award

HID Global

HID Global Wins Frost & Sullivan 2022 Enabling Technology Leadership Award. mchandarana. Fri, 07/15/2022 - 09:15.

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Dr. Lettie Conrad is 21st Graduate of Gateway PhD Program via SJSU

IG Guru

Check out the post here!

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Experts warn of attacks on sites using flawed Kaswara Modern WPBakery Page Builder Addons

Security Affairs

Researchers spotted a massive campaign that scanned close to 1.6 million WordPress sites for vulnerable Kaswara Modern WPBakery Page Builder Addons. The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team observed a sudden increase in attacks targeting the Kaswara Modern WPBakery Page Builder Addons. Threat actors are attempting to exploit an arbitrary file upload vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-24284.