SolarWinds: The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 2, 2023
The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 2, 2023
The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.
Dark Reading
MAY 3, 2023
Malicious packages are hard to avoid and hard to detect — unless you know what to look for.
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The Last Watchdog
MAY 2, 2023
The rising complexity and prevalence of cybersecurity threats are making experts anxious. Related: Training employees to mitigate phishing It pressures working analysts to perform 24 hours’ worth of work in an 8-hour day. Automation could alleviate the burden on IT teams and cybersecurity professionals by shouldering some monotonous, time-consuming tasks.
Data Breach Today
MAY 3, 2023
Ukraine Links Attacks to Russian Intelligence Sandworm Hackers Ukrainian cyber defenders say they spotted a malicious script used to activate the delete option on a Windows file archiving utility likely planted by the Russian intelligence agency unit Sandworm. CERT-UA says attackers likely used a compromised VPN credential to gain access.
Speaker: Diane Magers, Founder and Chief Experience Officer at Experience Catalysts
In the world of business, connecting the dots from experience to financial impact is an essential skill. Transforming customer engagement, Voice of Customer (VoC) insights, and Journey Maps into tangible financial outcomes poses a significant challenge for most organizations. To gain buy-in from the C-Suite and key stakeholders, it’s crucial to illustrate how Experience Management translates into clear, measurable business results.
Dark Reading
MAY 4, 2023
Courts closed, but police, fire rescues unaffected following ransomware attack.
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The Last Watchdog
APRIL 30, 2023
The theme of RSA Conference 2023 — ‘stronger together’ — was certainly well chosen. Related: Demystifying ‘DSPM’ This was my nineteenth RSAC. I attended my first one in 2004, while covering Microsoft for USA TODAY. It certainly was terrific to see the cybersecurity industry’s premier trade event fully restored to its pre-Covid grandeur at San Francisco’s Moscone Center last week.
Data Breach Today
MAY 5, 2023
Hackers Treasure Crypto's Anonymity, Cybercrime Defenders its Traceability Ransomware hackers' favorite currency is cryptocurrency. Digital assets transfer millions of dollars each year from victims to cybercriminals. But that dependency is also an opportunity for law enforcement to hit ransomware hackers in their most vulnerable spot.
Dark Reading
MAY 5, 2023
Users can check for the updated firmware version of their wireless headphones in the Bluetooth settings of their iPhone, iPad, or Mac devices.
Krebs on Security
MAY 4, 2023
The U.S. government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. U.S. authorities say 43-year-old Denis Kulkov ‘s card-checking service made him at least $18 million, which he used to buy a Ferrari, Land Rover, and other luxury items.
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
KnowBe4
MAY 2, 2023
Compromised websites (legitimate sites that have been successfully compromised to support social engineering) are serving visitors fake Google Chrome update error messages.
Data Breach Today
MAY 2, 2023
Use Cases: Cybersecurity Offense, Defense and Safeguarding AI Itself, Experts Say Pre-RSA social media gaming predicted it. Many predicted they would loath it. And it happened: Discussions at this year's RSA conference again and again came back to generative artificial intelligence - but with a twist. Even some of the skeptics professed their conversion to the temple of AI.
Dark Reading
MAY 3, 2023
Chrome 117 will retire the lock icon and replace it with a "tune" icon, reflecting evolving cybersecurity standards.
National Archives Records Express
MAY 4, 2023
Today, we published new federal regulations with standards for digitizing permanent federal records. The regulations are in 36 CFR 1236, Subpart E. These regulations will go into effect on June 5, 2023. The regulations establish standards for digitizing permanent paper records and photographic prints. They do not contain standards for digitizing film records at this time.
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Troy Hunt
MAY 4, 2023
It's a bit of a mixed bag this week with a very light-hearted look at the death of the browser padlock icon (which has been replaced by an icon that looks like a sex act), and a much more serious discussion about divorce. It took a long time to write and be ready to publish that blog post, many years in fact, but I'm so glad I did. You don't have to scroll far through the responses to the launch tweet or the comments on the blog itself to get a sense of how it's impacted peop
Data Breach Today
MAY 5, 2023
Cyber Solidarity Act Seeks to Improve EU Responses to Cyber Incidents The European Commission is proposing to spend more than 1 billion euros on cybersecurity operations centers amid long-standing worries that cyberthreats against the members of the continental alliance go undetected, concerns made more urgent by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Dark Reading
MAY 2, 2023
The cyberattack campaign, similar to one to spread the Rhadamanthys Stealer, is part of a larger trend by attackers to use malvertising as initial access for ransomware and other threat activity.
KnowBe4
MAY 2, 2023
Bloomberg's Brad Stone wrote an op-ed covering this topic. In the past month, a chatbot called " My AI " or "Sage" has appeared as a new friend for several hundred million Snapchat users. The chatbot utilizes OpenAI's advanced artificial intelligence tool, ChatGPT. It has shown up unexpectedly at the top of many users' friend lists on the messaging app, which is considered prime app real estate.
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Security Affairs
MAY 2, 2023
FortiGuard Labs researchers observed a worrisome level of attacks attempting to exploit an authentication bypass vulnerability in TBK DVR devices. FortiGuard Labs researchers are warning of a spike in malicious attacks targeting TBK DVR devices. Threat actors are attempting to exploit a five-year-old authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score of 9.8), in TBK DVR devices.
Data Breach Today
MAY 4, 2023
Also: T-Mobile, an Italian Water System, a German IT Provider, a macOS Info Stealer In the days between April 27 and May 4, the spotlight was on: a Royal ransomware attack on Dallas, Telecom giant T-Mobile's second breach in 2023, a ransomware attack disrupting water services in half a dozen southern Italian towns, a German IT services provider and the Atomic macOS Stealer.
Dark Reading
MAY 3, 2023
The company has removed three APTs and six potentially criminal networks from its platforms who leveraged elaborate campaigns of fake personas and profiles to lure and compromise users.
IT Governance
MAY 2, 2023
Welcome to our April 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Our research identified 120 publicly disclosed incidents during the month, accounting for 4,353,257 breached records. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below, along with our rundown of the biggest incidents of the month. Meanwhile, if you enjoy this sort of cyber security news, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest stories straight to your inbox.
Speaker: Shawn Phillips, CCXP, Head of Growth and Innovation
A one-size-fits-all approach is a great approach – if it’s 2010. With the growth of AI, customers expect – and often demand – a customer journey based on their unique needs and history with your brand. Advanced platforms enable you to move beyond simple personalization or mass customization to create truly unique customer journeys that optimize outcomes for both your customers and your brand.
Security Affairs
APRIL 30, 2023
Thales cybersecurity researchers have shown this week how they seized control of a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite. This week, during the third edition of CYSAT, the European event dedicated to cybersecurity for the space industry, the European Space Agency (ESA) set up a satellite test bench, inviting white hat hackers to attempt seizing control of OPS-SAT , a nanosatellite operated by the agency for demonstration purposes.
Data Breach Today
MAY 2, 2023
Nearly 300 Arrests Made in the US and Europe International law enforcement agencies arrested hundreds in what authorities say is the largest crackdown on illicit drugs over the dark web, also revealing that German law enforcement was behind the December 2021 disappearance of dark web drug marketplace Monopoly Market.
Dark Reading
MAY 2, 2023
Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia explains why a recently revealed targeted attack by a cyber-espionage group out of China rivals the SolarWinds attack in its complexity, and weighs in on how defenders can best leverage generative AI.
IBM Big Data Hub
MAY 1, 2023
The last few years—even the last few months—have seen artificial intelligence (AI) breakthroughs come at a dizzying pace. AI that can generate paragraphs of text as well as a human, create realistic imagery and video from text, or perform hundreds of different tasks has captured the public’s attention. People see AI’s high level of performance, creative potential and, in some cases, the ability for anyone to use them with little to no technical expertise.
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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.
Security Affairs
MAY 3, 2023
Threat actors are using the promise of generative AI like ChatGPT to deliver malware, Facebook parent Meta warned. Threat actors are taking advantage of the huge interest in generative AI like ChatGPT to trick victims into installing malware, Meta warns. The hackers attempt to trick victims into installing malicious apps and browser extensions on their devices.
Data Breach Today
MAY 5, 2023
Arrests Made and Computer Equipment Seized Ukrainian law enforcement dismantled more than half a dozen bot farms and a virtual private network infrastructure spreading disinformation and fake Russian propaganda. Ukrainian authorities have dismantled a string of botnet operations in December, September and August of 2022.
Dark Reading
MAY 4, 2023
Google's new program aims to offer accessible training to fill 750K open cybersecurity jobs with diverse array of talent.
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