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Ransomware Groups' Data Leak Blogs Lie: Stop Trusting Them

Data Breach Today

Don't Let the Quest for Data Lead You to Amplify What Criminals Might Be Claiming For the love of humanity, please stop playing into ransomware groups' hands by treating their data leak blogs as reliable sources of information and then using them to build lists of who's amassed the most victims.

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Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years

Krebs on Security

15, 2019, Quintero published a blog post outlining how Windows keeps the Authenticode signature valid after appending any content to the end of Windows Installer files (those ending in.MSI) signed by any software developer. . ET: Corrected attribution on the June 2020 blog article about GlueBall exploits in the wild.

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Ransomware Gangs Don’t Need PR Help

Krebs on Security

But absent any additional information from the victim company or their partners who may be affected by the attack, these kinds of stories and blog posts look a great deal like ambulance chasing and sensationalism. Currently, more than a dozen ransomware crime gangs have erected their own blogs to publish sensitive data from victims.

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Researchers Uncover Chinese Hacking Cyberespionage Campaign

Data Breach Today

Chinese Threat Actor 'Velvet Ant' Evaded Detection for Years in Victim Network A Chinese threat actor used state-sponsored techniques to carry out a cyberespionage campaign targeting a major organization's networks after exploiting legacy technology to gain multiple footholds across the enterprise infrastructure, researchers said in a Monday blog post. (..)

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Troublemaker CISO: Do You Know What You Should Be Doing?

Data Breach Today

The Rant of the Day From Ian Keller, Ericsson In his second Rant of the Day for the CyberEdBoard Profiles in Leadershop blog, Ian Keller, security director at Ericsson and CyberEdBoard executive member, talks about what a CISO does - and what a CISO should do.

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Who's Behind Attempt to Reboot REvil Ransomware Operation?

Data Breach Today

The original Happy Blog leak site began redirecting to the new blog, which lists both old and seemingly new victims, including Oil India Limited. Researchers Suspect Former REvil Developer of Restarting Server, Data Leak Site Has the notorious REvil ransomware operation come back?

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Journey to the Cloud: Navigating the Transformation - Part 1

Data Breach Today

Nikko Asset Management's Marcus Rameke Defines the Requirements In Part 1 of this three-part blog post, Nikko Asset Management's Marcus Rameke provides an introduction and defines the requirements for making the transformative journey to the cloud. Parts 2 and 3 will discuss more detailed aspects of making the shift to the cloud.

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