Wed.Jun 26, 2024

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New P2Pinfect version delivers miners and ransomware on Redis servers

Security Affairs

Researchers warn that the P2Pinfect worm is targeting Redis servers with ransomware and cryptocurrency mining payloads. Cado Security researchers warned that the P2Pinfect worm is employed in attacks against Redis servers, aimed at deploying both ransomware and cryptocurrency mining payloads. In July 2023, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers first discovered the P2P worm P2PInfect that targets Redis servers running on both Linux and Windows systems.

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How to leave a group chat on your iPhone or Android device

Collaboration 2.0

Yes, you can always escape a group text chat that no longer appeals to you. Is deleting too final? Here's how to hide notifications.

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New Caesar Cipher Skimmer targets popular CMS used by e-stores

Security Affairs

A new e-skimmer called Caesar Cipher Skimmer is used to compromise multiple CMS, including WordPress, Magento, and OpenCart. Sucuri researchers discovered a new e-skimmer , called Caesar Cipher Skimmer, that was used in recent weeks to target users of e-stores based on popular CMS, including WordPress, Magento, and OpenCart. Over the past several weeks, the experts noticed a new variation of the “gtag” credit card skimming attack with a high number of detections, they called it ‘Caesar Cip

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War Crime Prosecutions Enter a New Digital Age

WIRED Threat Level

A custom platform developed by SITU Research aided the International Criminal Court’s prosecution in a war crimes trial for the first time. It could change how justice is enacted on an international scale.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Bogus: LockBit's Claimed Federal Reserve Ransomware Hit

Data Breach Today

Actual Victim: Evolve Bank, Now Dealing With Open Banking Enforcement Action by Fed More reasons to beware breathless reporting about a ransomware group's latest supposed victim: LockBit's claim to have breached the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. Instead, the actual victim is Evolve Bancorp, which is currently dealing with an enforcement action by - wait for it - the Fed.

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U.S. Federal Agencies Still Struggle to Recruit Cyber Talent

Data Breach Today

Federal Officials Say There is ‘No Silver Bullet’ to Fixing the Cyber Workforce Gap U.S. federal agencies struggle to recruit and retain the next generation of cybersecurity talent, officials testified Wednesday, despite a range of initiatives meant to attract a diverse array of skills and perspectives to the cyber workforce.

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Simulated Phishing Tests Matter

KnowBe4

If you had to choose between regular cybersecurity training and simulated phishing testing, the data shows you should choose simulated phishing tests.

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Hackers Quick to Exploit MOVEit Authentication Flaw

Data Breach Today

Progress Software: 'Newly Disclosed Third-Party Vulnerability Introduces New Risk' Hackers jumped on a new flaw in Progress Software's MOVEit managed file transfer application just hours after maker Progress Software publicly disclosed the critical flaw, which allowsattackers to bypass authentication. Customers of the Massachusetts company are no strangers to emergency patching.

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The Double-Edged Sword of AI: Empowering Cybercriminals and the Need for Heightened Cybersecurity Awareness

KnowBe4

The BBC recently reported that Booking.com is warning that AI is driving an explosion in travel scams. Up to 900% in their estimation - making it abundantly clear that while AI can be a force for good, it can also be a formidable weapon in the arsenal of cybercriminals.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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OpenAI Drops ChatGPT Access for Users in China, Russia, Iran

Data Breach Today

Users of All OpenAI Services in Unsupported Countries Will Lose Access by July 9 OpenAI appears to be removing access to its services for users in China, Russia and Iran in the next two weeks. The company did not explain its decision, but it has disrupted influence campaigns and cybercrime based in those countries, and the U.S. government is restricting access to AI technology.

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U.S. Commerce Department Issues First-of-Its-Kind Determination Banning Certain Software Products and Services

Data Matters

On June 20, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (OICTS) published a first-of-its-kind Final Determination against Kapersky Lab, Inc., prohibiting the provision of its antivirus software and cybersecurity products in the United States or to U.S. persons. This Final Determination provides new insights into OICTS review of information and communications technology and services (ICTS) transactions and the prohibitions or r

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Why Activist Investor Jana Is Pressing Rapid7 to Sell Itself

Data Breach Today

Activist Investors Are Rare in Cybersecurity, But Rapid7's Struggles Drew a Firm In Jana Partners announced a "significant" stake in Boston-based Rapid7 Wednesday and plans to push the vulnerability management firm to sell itself. The activist investor is working with investment firm Cannae Holdings, and wants Cannae to team up with a private equity firm to buy Rapid7.

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Apple Says Its AI Sets a ‘New Standard’ for Privacy and Invites Security Experts to Test It via CNET

IG Guru

Check out the article here The post Apple Says Its AI Sets a ‘New Standard’ for Privacy and Invites Security Experts to Test It via CNET first appeared on IG GURU.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Nuance Ex-Employee Indicted for Breach Affecting 1 Million

Data Breach Today

DOJ Says Vendor's Terminated Worker Unlawfully Accessed Geisinger Patient Info An ex-employee of Microsoft's Nuance Communications unit is at the center of a 2023 data breach that affected more than 1 million patients of Pennsylvania-based healthcare system Geisinger. The Department of Justice has criminally charged the former Nuance worker in the incident.

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Future-Proof Your Crypto Strategy for the Post-Quantum Age: Insights from CNSA 2.0 and FIPS 140-3

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Future-Proof Your Crypto Strategy for the Post-Quantum Age: Insights from CNSA 2.0 and FIPS 140-3 josh.pearson@t… Thu, 06/27/2024 - 00:42 Encryption Shaun Chen | AVP - Sales Engineering, APAC More About This Author > Imagine a world where hackers could easily crack the encryption protecting your most sensitive information. With the potential challenge of quantum computing on the horizon, such a scenario could become a reality.

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Keeping Track of the Cybersecurity Job Market

Data Breach Today

How Understanding Hiring Trends Can Boost Your Career in Cyber The journey to securing a career in cybersecurity can often feel daunting, and the job hunt can be frustrating. But learning to understand the current cybersecurity job market and industry trends can help you achieve your career goals more efficiently.

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Production CS and CF Printing returns to normal trajectory 

Info Source

By Eirini Louizou, Head of Production & Industrial Printing at Infosource Production printers are high-speed printers, starting at a speed of 60 pages per minute (ppm), used for high-volume print applications at low cost and superior quality. A common categorization is based on the production printing method, with production printers distinguished as Production Cut-sheet (CS) and Continuous-feed (CF).

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Atos Takeover Bid Hits New Roadblock

Data Breach Today

Shareholder Onepoint Withdraws From Confirmed Restructuring Plan A takeover bid of debt-ridden French IT consultancy Atos hit a roadblock after a key company shareholder withdrew from a financial restructuring plan designed to help the firm recover from its 3.9-billion-euro liability, saying, "Conditions were not ripe to reach an agreement.

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Db2 for z/OS: Getting From Function Level 500 to 510 in a Db2 12 Environment

Robert's Db2

It's pretty well known that getting the activated function level of a Db2 12 for z/OS system to V12R1M510 is required prior to migrating that Db2 12 system to Db2 13 (I blogged about that a couple of years ago ). At present (June, 2024), there are still a good number of sites running Db2 12 for z/OS with an activated function level of V12R1M500. I sometimes get, from people at such sites, a question like this: "How should we go from Db2 12 function level 500 to function level 510?

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DocuWare accelerates AI strategy with natif.AI acquisition

Info Source

Document management and workflow automation solutions provider, DocuWare, has acquired German software startup, natif.ai, to strengthen its artificial intelligence (AI) data extraction capabilities. natif.ai offers AI-enabled intelligent Capture, advanced image recognition and optical character recognition (OCR) technologies. The deal is yet another example of the blurring lines between the Capture & Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), intelligent automation and enterprise content managem

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The US Is Banning Kaspersky

Schneier on Security

This move has been coming for a long time. The Biden administration on Thursday said it’s banning the company from selling its products to new US-based customers starting on July 20, with the company only allowed to provide software updates to existing customers through September 29. The ban—­the first such action under authorities given to the Commerce Department in 2019­—follows years of warnings from the US intelligence community about Kaspersky being a national security threat be

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Developments in the Russian printer and scanner market 

Info Source

By Petr Kramerius and Boris Kuschev, Regional Managers at Infosource. Printer sales through official channels in Russia—the largest printer market in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU)—shrank in 2023 and the first quarter of 2024 as sanctions continued to bite. The toner-based MFP market decreased by 25% to around 508,000 units in 2023 and declined 19% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2024.