Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Threat actors were actively exploiting CVE-2023-36025 in Windows SmartScreen as a zero-day vulnerability before Microsoft patched it in November.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

A hacking gang known as Scattered Spiders soundly defeated the cybersecurity defenses of MGM and Caesars casinos. Related: Russia puts the squeeze on US supply chain This cost the Las Vegas gambling meccas more than $100 million while damaging their reputations. As the companies face nine federal lawsuits for failing to protect customer data, it’s abundantly clear hackers have checkmated multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

OpenAI Board Thwarts Altman's Return, Names Ex-Twitch Boss Emmett Shear Interim CEO OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will lead a new advanced AI research team at Microsoft after OpenAI's board decided not to bring them back, Satya Nadella said. The nonprofit behind ChatGPT opted instead to name longtime Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as its new interim leader Sunday night.

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AIIM

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Recently, I was lucky enough to be part of a networking group that got to see a real world demo of Chat GPT in a highly practical use case. The use case was focused on internal search within an organization and utilized the strengths of Chat GPT as a Large Language Model (LLM). The organization demonstrating the use case explained they used a conversational use interface (UI) that focused on user experience and making it easier for the user to find the information they were looking for without h

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Cybersecurity and Deepfakes Are Major Concerns European electoral and cybersecurity authorities on Tuesday held a joint exercise assessing plans to hold an incident-free election, weeks after trading bloc cybersecurity agency ENISA said the election is at risk from deepfake images and videos.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The DarkCasino APT group leveraged a recently disclosed WinRAR zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-38831. Researchers at cybersecurity firm NSFOCUS analyzed DarkCasino attack pattern exploiting the WinRAR zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-38831. The economically motivated APT group used specially crafted archives in phishing attacks against forum users through online trading forum posts. “DarkCasino is an APT threat actor with strong technical and learning ability, who is g

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CGI

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The North Atlantic Fellas Organization is trying to shut down Trump’s flailing social media platform before the 2024 election—by shitposting.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Proposals Require a CISO, Strong Cyber Controls, 2-Hour Incident Reporting Window New York State will soon seek public comment on sweeping new cybersecurity regulations for hospitals. The proposed rules would come with $500 million in requested funding to help the providers step up their security investments to comply with the new requirements.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

8Base ransomware operators were observed using a variant of the Phobos ransomware in a recent wave of attacks. Cisco Talos researchers observed 8Base ransomware operators using a variant of the Phobos ransomware in recent attacks. Phobos variants are usually distributed by the SmokeLoader , but in 8Base campaigns, it has the ransomware component embedded in its encrypted payloads.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Foster City, Calif., Nov. 21, 2023 — Qualys , a cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions leader, unveiled its forward-looking vision of the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform on Nov. 8. The announcement was made by president and CEO, Sumedh Thakar at the company’s annual Qualys Security Conference in Orlando, Florida. The Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform centers around helping customers holistically measure, effectively communicate, and proactively eliminate cyber risk, with a h

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

There’s a devastating amount of heavy news these days. Psychology experts say you need to know your limits—and when to put down the phone.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Hacktivists Leak Sensitive Employee Information From Idaho National Laboratory The hacktivist group SiegedSec has taken responsibility for a massive data breach targeting Idaho National Laboratory, a leading nuclear energy testing lab. Concerns are now growing over what data was stolen from the laboratory - and who might have access to it.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

An Israeli hacker has been sentenced to 80 months in prison in the US for his role in a massive spear-phishing campaign. Aviram Azari (52) was sentenced to 80 months in prison for computer intrusion, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft in connection with his involvement in a massive spear-phishing campaign targeting companies and individuals in the U.S. and around worldwide.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Signal has had the ability to manually authenticate another account for years. iMessage is getting it : The feature is called Contact Key Verification, and it does just what its name says: it lets you add a manual verification step in an iMessage conversation to confirm that the other person is who their device says they are. (SMS conversations lack any reliable method for verification­—sorry, green-bubble friends.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

China pairs cyber and kinetic attacks in the South Pacific as it continues to wrangle control of the South China Sea.

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Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

77 Million Individuals' Information Exposed, as More Victims Continue to Be Counted Trackers of the tally of individuals affected by the Clop ransomware group's mass hack attack on MOVEit servers added another 4.5 million patients' data to the ever-ascending total. The incident currently affects more than 2,600 organizations and 77 million individuals.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Threat actors spread Atomic Stealer (AMOS) macOS information stealer via a bogus web browser update as part of the ClearFake campaign. Atomic Stealer (AMOS) macOS information stealer is now being delivered via a fake browser update chain tracked as ClearFake, Malwarebytes researchers warn. The malware focuses on macOS, designed to pilfer sensitive information from the compromised systems.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Generative AI is going to be a powerful tool for data analysis and summarization. Here’s an example of it being used for sentiment analysis. My guess is that it isn’t very good yet, but that it will get better.

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Another day, another warning about holiday scams! Lookout Inc., a data-centric cloud security company, is warning employees and businesses that phishing attacks are expected to more than double this week , based on historical data. With more corporate data residing in the cloud and a massive amount of employees still working remotely, mobile has become the endpoint of choice for the modern workforce.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Australia Envisions Cybersecurity Leadership in the Pacific With New Strategy The Australian government says it will mandate ransomware reporting by businesses, boost law enforcement capacity and fund startups with innovative cybersecurity solutions under a strategy unveiled Monday. "We cannot continue as we have," said Cyber Security and Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) disclosed a data breach after the SiegedSec hacktivist group leaked stolen human resources data. SiegedSec hacktivists group claimed responsibility for the hack of The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and leaked stolen human resources data. SiegedSec is a threat actor that last year carried out multiple attacks against U.S. organizations, especially U.S. municipalities.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The actor behind the high-profile MGM incident jumps across segmentations in under an hour, in a ransomware attack spanning Okta, Citrix, Azure, SharePoint, and more.

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Scammers are using a compromised X (formerly Twitter) account belonging to Bloomberg Crypto to send users to a phishing site designed to steal Discord credentials, BleepingComputer reports.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Also, Kansas Courts Say Ongoing Outage Traces to Attack; Confidential Data Stolen This week's data breach roundup: Chinese-affiliated hackers target the Philippine government; Kansas Courts confirm data theft; officials warn of exploited flaws in Sophos, Oracle and Microsoft software; AutoZone discloses a Clop ransomware attack; Optus' CEO resigns after network outage.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Rhysida ransomware group claimed responsibility for the recent cyberattack on the British Library that has caused a major IT outage. The Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the largest libraries in the world.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group announced a zero-day against the Zimbra Collaboration email server that has been used against governments around the world. TAG has observed four different groups exploiting the same bug to steal email data, user credentials, and authentication tokens. Most of this activity occurred after the initial fix became public on Github.

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