Data Breach Today
JANUARY 17, 2025
Department of Treasury Imposes Sanctions The U.S. federal government said Friday it's traced the source of Chinese hacker intrusions into telecom networks to a government contractor located in hacking hotbed Sichuan. The Department of Treasury imposed sanctions on the firm, Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology.
Collaboration 2.0
JANUARY 17, 2025
ChatGPT tasks offers AI prompt scheduling and automation, but what happens when things go wrong?
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Security Affairs
JANUARY 15, 2025
A previously unknown threat actor released config files and VPN passwords for Fortinet FortiGate devices on a popular cybercrime forum. A previously unknown threat actor named Belsen Group published configuration files and VPN passwords for over 15,000 Fortinet FortiGate appliances. “2025 will be a fortunate year for the world. At the beginning of the year, and as a positive start for us, and in order to solidify the name of our group in your memory, we are proud to announce our first offi
The Last Watchdog
JANUARY 15, 2025
Tel Aviv, Israel, Jan. 15, 2025, CyberNewswire — Sweet Security , a leader in cloud runtime detection and response, today announced the launch of its groundbreaking patent-pending Large Language Model (LLM)-powered cloud detection engine. This innovation enhances Sweet’s unified detection and response solution, enabling it to reduce cloud detection noise to an unprecedented 0.04%.
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WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 16, 2025
A breach of AT&T that exposed nearly all of the company's customers may have included records related to confidential FBI sources, potentially explaining the Bureau's new embrace of end-to-end encryption.
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Security Affairs
JANUARY 19, 2025
A WordPress W3 Total Cache plugin vulnerability could allow attackers to access information from internal services, including metadata on cloud-based apps. A severe vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12365 (CVSS score of 8.5) in the WordPress W3 Total Cache plugin could expose metadata from internal services and cloud apps. The WordPress W3 Total Cache plugin is a popular performance optimization tool designed to improve the speed and efficiency of WordPress websites.
Collaboration 2.0
JANUARY 15, 2025
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The Last Watchdog
JANUARY 15, 2025
Prague, Czech Republic, Jan. 15, 2025, CyberNewswire — Quantum computing is set to revolutionize technology, but it also presents a significant security risk for financial institutions. Czech cybersecurity startup Wultra has raised 3 million from Tensor Ventures, Elevator Ventures, and J&T Ventures to accelerate the development of its post-quantum authentication technology, safeguarding banks and fintech against the coming wave of quantum threats.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 18, 2025
TikTok is now unavailable in the United Statesand getting around the ban isnt as simple as using a VPN. Heres what you need to know.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 20, 2025
Hackers Using Valid Customer Credentials to Re-Encrypt S3 Objects Amazon is urging its customers to deploy additional security measures to secure S3 buckets following reports of ransomware attacks targeting the platform. The company said mitigations prevented "a high percentage of attempts from succeeding.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 15, 2025
The ransomware group Codefinger is using compromised AWS keys to encrypt S3 bucket data using SSE-C, Halcyon researchers warn. The ransomware group Codefinger has been spotted using compromised AWS keys to encrypt data in S3 buckets. The threat actor used AWSs Server-Side Encryption with Customer Provided Keys (SSE-C) for encryption, then demanded the payment of a ransom to the victim to recover the data using the attackers’ symmetric AES-256 keys required to decrypt data.
Collaboration 2.0
JANUARY 17, 2025
If you're wondering which apps take priority on your new Linux machine, these 10 will help you get the most out of the OS.
The Last Watchdog
JANUARY 15, 2025
Silver Spring, MD, Jan. 15, 2025, CyberNewswire — Aembit , the non-human identity and access management (IAM) company, unveiled the full agenda for NHIcon 2025, a virtual event dedicated to advancing non-human identity security, streaming live on Jan. 28 and headlined by industry luminary Kevin Mandia. NHIcon 2025 is co-presented by Aembit and Veza , alongside industry partners Identity Defined Security Alliance and Cloud Security Alliance.
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WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 16, 2025
US president Joe Biden just issued a 40-page executive order that aims to bolster federal cybersecurity protections, directs government use of AIand takes a swipe at Microsofts dominance.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 17, 2025
Also: Bringing AML and Fraud Programs Together; the Global AI Arms Race In this week's update, ISMG editors discussed a U.K. proposal to mandate ransomware payment reporting, tackling financial crime by bringing together fraud and AML teams, and the global AI arms race as countries compete to lead innovation while balancing regulation and ethics.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 20, 2025
Researchers linked the threat actor DoNot Teamto a new Android malware that was employed in highly targeted cyber attacks. CYFIRMA researchers linked a recently discovered Android malware to the Indian APT group known as DoNot Team. The Donot Team (aka APT-C-35 and Origami Elephant) has been active since 2016, it focuses ongovernment and military organizations, ministries of foreign affairs, and embassies in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and other South Asian countries.
Collaboration 2.0
JANUARY 15, 2025
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Schneier on Security
JANUARY 20, 2025
President Biden has signed a new cybersecurity order. It has a bunch of provisions, most notably using the US governments procurement power to improve cybersecurity practices industry-wide. Some details : The core of the executive order is an array of mandates for protecting government networks based on lessons learned from recent major incidents—namely, the security failures of federal contractors.
KnowBe4
JANUARY 20, 2025
An SMS phishing (smishing) campaign is attempting to trick Apple device users into disabling measures designed to protect them against malicious links, BleepingComputer reports.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 16, 2025
Legal Firm Joins Other Class Action Litigators Targeted by Hackers Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, a law firm that represents consumers in data breach lawsuits, has reported to regulators its own 2023 hack affecting more than 3.4 million individuals. The incident isn't the first time a law firm that handles data breach litigation reported a major hack.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 15, 2025
Microsoft disclosed details of a vulnerability in Apple macOS that could have allowed an attacker to bypass the OS’s System Integrity Protection ( SIP ). Microsoft disclosed details of a now-patched macOS flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-44243 (CVSS score: 5.5), that allows attackers with “root” access to bypass System Integrity Protection ( SIP ).
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Collaboration 2.0
JANUARY 17, 2025
If you have an aging computer and want to repurpose it, these lightweight Linux distributions will serve you for years to come.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 15, 2025
A very security-conscious company was hit with a (presumed) massive state-actor phishing attack with gift cards, and everyone rallied to combat it—until it turned out it was company management sending the gift cards.
KnowBe4
JANUARY 17, 2025
Ransomware groups claimed responsibility for 5,461 attacks in 2024, with 1,204 of these attacks being publicly confirmed by victim organizations, according to Comparitechs latest Ransomware Roundup report.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 15, 2025
RansomHub, Play and Akira Appear to Dominate; Numerous Newcomers Join the Fray While ransomware groups' data-leak sites regularly lie, if taken at face value, in December 2024 they collectively listed the largest number of victims ever seen in a one-month period, dominated by RansomHub, Play and Akira operations, plus a bevy of newcomers, researchers report.
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Security Affairs
JANUARY 15, 2025
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Fortinet FortiOS vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Fortinet FortiOS authorization bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-55591 (CVSS score: 9.6) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.
Collaboration 2.0
JANUARY 21, 2025
God Mode provides easy access to an array of Windows settings from one single window. Here's how it works.
Data Matters
JANUARY 17, 2025
Rapid rulemaking and aggressive enforcement by the SEC, combined with legislative, judicial, and regulatory developments, have created new requirements and expectations for U.S. public companies. The post Action Items for U.S. Public Companies for 2025 appeared first on Data Matters Privacy Blog.
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