Data Breach Today
JUNE 12, 2024
An Interview with Gigamon's Chief Security Officer, Chaim Mazal Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) face unprecedented challenges in their efforts to protect their organizations against a rising tide of increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 5, 2024
Digital rights management ( DRM ) has come a long way since Hollywood first recognized in the 1990s that it needed to rigorously protect digital music and movies. By the mid-2000s a branch called enterprise digital rights management ( EDRM ) cropped up to similarly protect sensitive business information. Today, businesses amass vast amounts of business-critical data – at a pace that’s quickening as GenAI takes hold.
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Krebs on Security
JUNE 15, 2024
A 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom arrested this week in Spain is allegedly the ringleader of Scattered Spider , a cybercrime group suspected of hacking into Twilio , LastPass , DoorDash , Mailchimp , and nearly 130 other organizations over the past two years. The Spanish daily Murcia Today reports the suspect was wanted by the FBI and arrested in Palma de Mallorca as he tried to board a flight to Italy.
Security Affairs
JUNE 24, 2024
The Lockbit ransomware group announced that it had breached the US Federal Reserve and exfiltrated 33 TB of sensitive data. The Lockbit ransomware group announced that it had breached the systems of Federal Reserve of the United States and exfiltrated 33 TB of sensitive data, including “Americans’ banking secrets.” The Lockbit ransomware group added the Federal Reserve to the list of victims on its Tor data leak site and threatened to leak the stolen data on 25 June, 2024 20:27
Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL
Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 4, 2024
Windows Recall takes a screenshot every five seconds. Cybersecurity researchers say the system is simple to abuse—and one ethical hacker has already built a tool to show how easy it really is.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 3, 2024
ShinyHunters Advertises Data Set of '30 Million Customers' for $2 Million A hacker is selling the purported data of 30 million customers of Spanish multinational bank Santander for $2 million on a criminal online forum the FBI recently attempted to shut down. Sample data posted online suggests the data set is genuine.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 10, 2024
Could we be on the verge of Privacy Destruction 2.0, thanks to GenAI? Related: Next-level browser security That’s a question that spilled out of a thought-provoking conversation I had with Pedro Fortuna , co-founder and CTO of Jscrambler , at RSAC 2024. Jscrambler provides granular visibility and monitoring of JavaScript coding thus enabling companies to set and enforce security rules and privacy policies.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
JUNE 12, 2024
Bouncing Back: How to Investigate and Recover After a Ransomware Attack madhav Thu, 06/13/2024 - 05:49 You've likely seen the headlines about ransomware attacks and the monumental challenges they pose for organizations. But what should you do when an attack occurs, even if you have a ransomware protection solution in place? In this post, we will delve into the forensics of a ransomware attack, showing you how to classify the attack and recover from it if a ransomware protection solution is in pl
Security Affairs
JUNE 20, 2024
A researcher discovered a flaw that allows attackers to impersonate Microsoft corporate email accounts and launch phishing attacks. The security researcher Vsevolod Kokorin (@Slonser) discovered a bug that allows anyone to impersonate Microsoft corporate email accounts. An attacker can trigger the vulnerability to launch phishing attacks. I want to share my recent case: > I found a vulnerability that allows sending a message from any user@domain > We cannot reproduce it > I send a v
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 6, 2024
A new discovery that the AI-enabled feature's historical data can be accessed even by hackers without administrator privileges only contributes to the growing sense that the feature is a “dumpster fire.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 3, 2024
A piece I coauthored with Fredrik Heiding and Arun Vishwanath in the Harvard Business Review : Summary. Gen AI tools are rapidly making these emails more advanced, harder to spot, and significantly more dangerous. Recent research showed that 60% of participants fell victim to artificial intelligence (AI)-automated phishing, which is comparable to the success rates of non-AI-phishing messages created by human experts.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 17, 2024
US International Arrest Warrant Accuses Suspect of Cryptocurrency-Theft Campaigns Spanish National Police have arrested a 22-year-old British national based on an International Arrest Warrant from the U.S. that accuses him of stealing bitcoins worth $27 million. Reports suggest the suspect is a key member of the Scattered Spider cybercrime group that hacked MGM and Clorox.
KnowBe4
JUNE 11, 2024
Job seekers, beware - cybercriminals have a nasty new way to slide their malicious code on corporate networks. Researchers have uncovered a devious phishing campaign that's distributing the powerful More_eggs backdoor by disguising it as resume submissions for open roles.
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Lenny Zeltser
JUNE 13, 2024
Creating an informative and readable report is among the many challenges of responding to cybersecurity incidents. A good report not only answers its reader's questions but also instills confidence in the response and enables the organization to learn from the incident. This blog highlights my advice on writing such incident reports. It's based on the presentation I delivered at the RSA Conference , which offers more details and is available to you on YouTube.
Security Affairs
JUNE 15, 2024
NHS England confirmed that multiple London hospitals impacted by the ransomware attack at Synnovis were forced to cancel planned operations. NHS England confirmed that the recent ransomware attack on Synnovis had a severe impact of multiple London hospitals, forcing them to cancel more than hundreds of scheduled operations. Synnovis is a pathology partnership between Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospitals NHS Trust, and SYNLAB, Europe’s largest provider of medical
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 5, 2024
A WIRED investigation, based on more than 22 million flight coordinates, reveals the complicated truth about the first full-blown police drone program in the US—and why your city could be next.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 4, 2024
Interesting story of breaking the security of the RoboForm password manager in order to recover a cryptocurrency wallet password. Grand and Bruno spent months reverse engineering the version of the RoboForm program that they thought Michael had used in 2013 and found that the pseudo-random number generator used to generate passwords in that versionand subsequent versions until 2015did indeed have a significant flaw that made the random number generator not so random.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 10, 2024
Concerns Remain Over Screenshot-Capture Feature and Microsoft's Security Practices How in the world has Microsoft's leadership managed to get the debut of its forthcoming Recall feature for Windows so wrong on the security and privacy fronts? In the face of serious concerns, Redmond has belatedly promised multiple enhancements, but serious questions remain unanswered.
KnowBe4
JUNE 17, 2024
Researchers at Trustwave warn that a phishing campaign is distributing malware via HTML attachments disguised as invoices. Notably, the HTML files abuse the Windows Search protocol to launch Windows Explorer and trick users into installing the malware.
OpenText Information Management
JUNE 4, 2024
In today's digital age, cybersecurity threats are an ever-present danger for organizations of all sizes. While sophisticated technology solutions are critical in defending against cyber threats, they are only part of the equation. Cybersecurity is not just about having the right tools; it's also about having the right people and processes in place. This is where Tabletop Exercises (or incident response simulations), come into play.
Security Affairs
JUNE 19, 2024
Google released Chrome 126 update that addresses a high-severity vulnerability demonstrated at the TyphoonPWN 2024 hacking competition. Google has issued a Chrome 126 security update, addressing six vulnerabilities, including a flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-6100 which was demonstrated during the SSD Secure Disclosure’s TyphoonPWN 2024. TyphoonPWN is a live hacking competition held annually at TyphoonCon, an Offensive Security Conference in Seoul, South Korea.
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WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 7, 2024
After weeks of withering criticism and exposed security flaws, Microsoft has vastly scaled back its ambitions for Recall, its AI-enabled silent recording feature, and added new privacy features.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 11, 2024
New research: “ Deception abilities emerged in large language models “: Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are currently at the forefront of intertwining AI systems with human communication and everyday life. Thus, aligning them with human values is of great importance. However, given the steady increase in reasoning abilities, future LLMs are under suspicion of becoming able to deceive human operators and utilizing this ability to bypass monitoring efforts.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 18, 2024
Company Publishes Information on Double Key Encryption Under Regulatory Pressure Following a legal intervention made by the German federal cybersecurity agency, Microsoft has disclosed additional information on encryption measures it adopted to secure its customer data. A new white paper details how the company is deploying double key encryption.
eSecurity Planet
JUNE 28, 2024
Millions of WordPress websites are under threat after a critical security breach involving several popular plugins. Security researchers discovered malicious code injected into these plugins, granting hackers the ability to create unauthorized administrator accounts. This compromise can lead to severe consequences for website owners, including data breaches and total website takeovers.
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Cybersecurity Detection and Response tools are showing promise in helping reduce an attacker’s dwell time in your network. With reduced dwell time before detection, defenders have time to respond in containing the threat before significant damage can be done to your systems and confidential data. But cutting through the acronym soup and marketing hype can be a daunting task.
KnowBe4
JUNE 7, 2024
I have created a comprehensive webinar, based on my recent book , “Fighting Phishing: Everything You Can Do to Fight Social Engineering and Phishing”. It contains everything that KnowBe4 and I know to defeat scammers.
Security Affairs
JUNE 3, 2024
Personal information of hundreds of British and EU politicians is available on dark web marketplaces. According to research conducted by Proton and Constella Intelligence, the email addresses and other sensitive information of 918 British MPs, European Parliament members, and French deputies and senators are available in the dark web marketplaces. 40% of 2,280 official government email addresses from the British, European, and French Parliaments were exposed, including passwords, birth dates, an
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 1, 2024
Data breaches at Ticketmaster and financial services company Santander have been linked to attacks against cloud provider Snowflake. Researchers fear more breaches will soon be uncovered.
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