March, 2024

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Infostealers continue to pose threat to macOS users

Jamf

Jamf Threat Labs dissects ongoing infostealer attacks targeting macOS users. Each with different means of compromising victim’s Macs but with similar aims: to steal sensitive user data.

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Recent ‘MFA Bombing’ Attacks Targeting Apple Users

Krebs on Security

Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple’s password reset feature. In this scenario, a target’s Apple devices are forced to display dozens of system-level prompts that prevent the devices from being used until the recipient responds “Allow” or “Don’t Allow” to each prompt.

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Alert: Info Stealers Target Stored Browser Credentials

Data Breach Today

Calls Grow to Block Browser-Based Password Storage as Malware Comes Calling Saving passwords in browser-based password managers or via "remember my details" website options might make for simple and fast log-ins for employees, but they also give attackers an easy way to lift legitimate credentials, oftentimes via highly automated, information-stealing malware, experts warn.

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Will the U.S. Senate keep citizens safe, vote to force China to divest TikTok?

The Last Watchdog

Congressional bi-partisanship these day seems nigh impossible. Related: Rising tensions spell need for tighter cybersecurity Yet by a resounding vote of 352-65, the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would ban TikTok unless its China-based owner, ByteDance Ltd., relinquishes its stake. President Biden has said he will sign the bill into law, so its fate is now in the hands of the U.S.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Jeffrey Epstein's Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker

WIRED Threat Level

A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an island once owned by Epstein, the notorious sex offender.

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Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach

Troy Hunt

I hate having to use that word - "alleged" - because it's so inconclusive and I know it will leave people with many unanswered questions. But sometimes, "alleged" is just where we need to begin and over the course of time, proper attribution is made and the dots are joined. We're here at "alleged" for two very simple reasons: one is that AT&T is saying "the data didn't come from us", and the other is that I have no way of proving otherwise.

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CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms

Krebs on Security

The data privacy company Onerep.com bills itself as a Virginia-based service for helping people remove their personal information from almost 200 people-search websites. However, an investigation into the history of onerep.

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Leaked Data Set Belongs to AT&T Current and Former Customers

Data Breach Today

Data of 75 Million Individuals, Including SSNs, Posted On Criminal Forum AT&T did an about-face Saturday, saying that a leaked tranche of data pertaining to 73 million individuals does in fact reveal sensitive information of current and former customers of America's largest wireless phone carrier. The company isn't necessarily taking responsibility for the breach.

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Author Q&A: A patient’s perspective of advanced medical technology and rising privacy risks

The Last Watchdog

A close friend of mine, Jay Morrow, has just authored a book titled “Hospital Survival.” Related: Ransomware plagues healthcare Jay’s book is very personal. He recounts a health crisis he endured that began to manifest at the start of what was supposed to be a rejuvenation cruise. Jay had to undergo several operations, including one where he died on the operating table and had to be resuscitated.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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US Lawmaker Cited NYC Protests in a Defense of Warrantless Spying

WIRED Threat Level

A closed-door presentation for House lawmakers late last year portrayed American anti-war protesters as having possible ties to Hamas in an effort to kill privacy reforms to a major US spy program.

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DinodasRAT Linux variant targets users worldwide

Security Affairs

A Linux variant of the DinodasRAT backdoor used in attacks against users in China, Taiwan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan, researchers from Kaspersky warn. Researchers from Kaspersky uncovered a Linux version of a multi-platform backdoor DinodasRAT that was employed in attacks targeting China, Taiwan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan. DinodasRAT (aka XDealer ) is written in C++ and supports a broad range of capabilities to spy on users and steal sensitive data from a target’s system.

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5 reasons to attend OpenText World Europe 2024

OpenText Information Management

AI changes everything—every role, every organization, and every industry. Those who make the most of it will be poised to lead their industries. Are you ready to put this game-changing technology to work for you? Join us at OpenText™ World Europe 2024 to learn how you can reimagine work with AI. Our complimentary event will be held in three locations: London (Queen Elizabeth II Centre, April 15), Munich (MOC—Event Center Messe München, April 16 & 17), and Paris (Maison de la Chimie, April 18

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Incognito Darknet Market Mass-Extorts Buyers, Sellers

Krebs on Security

Borrowing from the playbook of ransomware purveyors, the darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has begun extorting all of its vendors and buyers, threatening to publish cryptocurrency transaction and chat records of users who refuse to pay a fee ranging from $100 to $20,000. The bold mass extortion attempt comes just days after Incognito Market administrators reportedly pulled an “exit scam” that left users unable to withdraw millions of dollars worth of funds from the platform.

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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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UK Nuclear Cleanup Site Faces Criminal Cybersecurity Charges

Data Breach Today

Probe Finds 'Largest and Most Hazardous Nuclear Site' Violated Security Laws Britain's nuclear power watchdog said it plans to prosecute the country's "largest and most hazardous nuclear site," Sellafield, for violating nuclear industry cybersecurity regulations from 2019 to 2023. Both Russian and Chinese nation-state hackers reportedly infiltrated the site's networks.

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FCC Updated Data Breach Notification Rules Go into Effect Despite Challenges

Hunton Privacy

On March 13, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission’s updates to the FCC data breach notification rules (the “Rules”) went into effect. They were adopted in December 2023 pursuant to an FCC Report and Order (the “Order”). The Rules went into effect despite challenges brought in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Two trade groups, the Ohio Telecom Association and the Texas Association of Business, petitioned the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and

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Here Come the AI Worms

WIRED Threat Level

Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way.

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Linux Malware targets misconfigured misconfigured Apache Hadoop, Confluence, Docker, and Redis servers

Security Affairs

A new Linux malware campaign campaign is targeting misconfigured Apache Hadoop, Confluence, Docker, and Redis instances. Researchers from Cado Security observed a new Linux malware campaign targeting misconfigured Apache Hadoop, Confluence, Docker, and Redis instances. The threat actors behind this campaign employed previously undetected payloads, including four Golang binaries that are used to automate the discovery and infection of hosts running the above services.

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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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Automakers Are Sharing Driver Data with Insurers without Consent

Schneier on Security

Kasmir Hill has the story : Modern cars are internet-enabled, allowing access to services like navigation, roadside assistance and car apps that drivers can connect to their vehicles to locate them or unlock them remotely. In recent years, automakers, including G.M., Honda, Kia and Hyundai, have started offering optional features in their connected-car apps that rate people’s driving.

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New Phishing-as-a-Service Kit Attempts to Bypass MFA

KnowBe4

A Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform called “Tycoon 2FA” has surged in popularity over the past several months, according to researchers at Sekoia. The phishing kit is notable for its focus on bypassing victims’ multi-factor authentication measures.

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Tactics for Battling Attacks by Russia's Midnight Blizzard

Data Breach Today

As Nation-State Group Hacks Big Targets, Trellix's John Fokker Details Defenses Major technology vendors keep being hacked by the nation-state hacking group Midnight Blizzard. Essential defenses to combat such attacks begin with implementing log monitoring across multiple platforms to find red flags, said John Fokker, head of threat intelligence at Trellix.

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New Hampshire Becomes 15th State to Enact a Comprehensive State Privacy Law

Hunton Privacy

On March 6, 2024, Governor Chris Sununu signed into law SB 255 , making New Hampshire the 15th state with a comprehensive privacy law. Applicability SB 255 applies to persons that “conduct business” in New Hampshire (“NH”) or persons that “produce products or services that are targeted to residents of” NH that, in the period of a year: (1) “controlled or processed the personal data of not less than 35,000 unique consumers, excluding personal data controlled or processed solely for the purpose of

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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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There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There's 764

WIRED Threat Level

A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.

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AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million customers

Security Affairs

AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million current and former customers after its data were leaked on a cybercrime forum. In March 2024, more than 70,000,000 records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked onto Breached forum, vx-underground researchers reported. Today 70,000,000+ records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked onto Breached.

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LLM Prompt Injection Worm

Schneier on Security

Researchers have demonstrated a worm that spreads through prompt injection. Details : In one instance, the researchers, acting as attackers, wrote an email including the adversarial text prompt, which “poisons” the database of an email assistant using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) , a way for LLMs to pull in extra data from outside its system.

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The False Economy of Deprioritising Security

IT Governance

In the UK, cyber security has been dropping down the board’s list of priorities. A 2022 Proofpoint study found that 76% of UK board members believed their organisation to be at risk of a material cyber attack in the next 12 months – higher than the global average of 65%. However, the 2023 edition of that study found that this had dropped to 44% in the UK, whereas the global average had climbed to 73%.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Russian State Hackers Penetrated Microsoft Code Repositories

Data Breach Today

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Hack Gets Worse for Computing Giant A Russian state hack against Microsoft was more serious than initially supposed, Microsoft acknowledged in a Friday disclosure to federal regulators. Microsoft said a Moscow threat actor obtained access to "source code repositories and internal systems.

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Welcoming the German Government to Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Back in 2018, we started making Have I Been Pwned domain searches freely available to national government cybersecurity agencies responsible for protecting their nations' online infrastructure. Today, we're very happy to welcome Germany as the 35th country to use this service, courtesy of their CERTBund department. This access now provides them with complete access to the exposure of their government domains in data breaches.

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The ‘Emergency Powers’ Risk of a Second Trump Presidency

WIRED Threat Level

Every US president has the ability to invoke “emergency powers” that could give an authoritarian leader the ability to censor the internet, restrict travel, and more.

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