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Hospitals in U.S., France Dealing With Cyber Extortionists

Data Breach Today

Texas Hospital Still Being Pressured, While French Hospital Responds to Ransomware A Texas-based hospital is apparently still contending with pressure to pay an extortion group that claims to have stolen patient data months ago, while a French medical center responds to a weekend attack and demands to pay a $10 million ransom.

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VMware LPE Bug Allows Cyberattackers to Feast on Virtual Machine Data

Dark Reading

An insider threat or remote attacker with initial access could exploit CVE-2022-31676 to steal sensitive data and scoop up user credentials for follow-on attacks.

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Twitter Security Allegations: Cybersecurity Experts Respond

Data Breach Today

Takeaway: Behind-the-Scenes Security Reality at Well-Known Brands Not Always Pretty Cybersecurity experts have been reacting to industry veteran Peiter Zatko's allegations of poor information security practices at Twitter, with many noting that he's hardly the first expert to have been hired to remedy serious problems, only to say they were prevented from doing their job.

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Black Hat Fireside Chat: Doing deep-dive API security — as software gets developed and deployed

The Last Watchdog

APIs have come to embody the yin and yang of our digital lives. Related: Biden moves to protect water facilities. Without application programming interface, all the cool digital services we take for granted would not be possible. But it’s also true that the way software developers and companies have deployed APIs has contributed greatly to the exponential expansion of the cyber-attack surface.

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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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Nobelium APT uses new Post-Compromise malware MagicWeb

Security Affairs

Russia-linked APT group Nobelium is behind a new sophisticated post-exploitation malware tracked by Microsoft as MagicWeb. Microsoft security researchers discovered a post-compromise malware, tracked as MagicWeb, which is used by the Russia-linked NOBELIUM APT group to maintain persistent access to compromised environments. The NOBELIUM APT ( APT29 , Cozy Bear , and The Dukes) is the threat actor that conducted the supply chain attack against SolarWinds, which involved multiple families of impla

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How Criminals Are Weaponizing Leaked Ransomware Data

Data Breach Today

Accenture's Robert Boyce Advises Firms to Update Monitoring and Approval Processes Accenture analyzed the top 20 most active ransomware leak sites to see how threat actors are posting sensitive corporate information and making the data easy to search and exploit. Accenture's Robert Boyce explains how cybercriminals are weaponizing stolen ransomware data for follow-up attacks.

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Black Hat Fireside Chat: Deploying ‘AI’ as a weapon to win the ‘attack surface management’ war

The Last Watchdog

Short-handed cybersecurity teams face a daunting challenge. Related: ‘ASM’ is cybersecurity’s new centerpiece. In an intensely complex, highly dynamic operating environment, they must proactively mitigate myriad vulnerabilities and at the same time curtail the harm wrought by a relentless adversary: criminal hacking collectives. In short, attack surface management has become the main tent pole of cybersecurity.

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LastPass data breach: threat actors stole a portion of source code

Security Affairs

Password management software firm LastPass has suffered a data breach, threat actors have stole source code and other data. Password management software firm LastPass disclosed a security breach, threat actors had access to portions of the company development environment through a single compromised developer account and stole portions of source code and some proprietary technical information. “Two weeks ago, we detected some unusual activity within portions of the LastPass development env

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Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ Can Crash Old Hard Drives

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: The Twilio hack snags a reporter, a new tool to check for spyware, and the Canadian weed pipeline gets hit by a cyberattack.

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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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Hacker Steals Source Code, Proprietary Data from LastPass

Data Breach Today

Security Experts Continue to Recommend Password Managers As Security Best Practice Password manager stalwart LastPass acknowledged Thursday that a threat actor gained unauthorized access to its source code and proprietary technical information. The attacker does not appear to have gained access to customer data or encrypted password vaults.

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Man-in-the-Middle Phishing Attack

Schneier on Security

Here’s a phishing campaign that uses a man-in-the-middle attack to defeat multi-factor authentication: Microsoft observed a campaign that inserted an attacker-controlled proxy site between the account users and the work server they attempted to log into. When the user entered a password into the proxy site, the proxy site sent it to the real server and then relayed the real server’s response back to the user.

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Threat actors are using the Tox P2P messenger as C2 server

Security Affairs

Threat actors are using the Tox peer-to-peer instant messaging service as a command-and-control server, Uptycs researchers reported. Tox is a peer-to-peer serverless instant messaging services that uses NaCl for encryption and decryption. Uptycs researchers reported that threat actors have started using the Tox peer-to-peer instant messaging service as a command-and-control server.

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Inside the World’s Biggest Hacker Rickroll

WIRED Threat Level

As a graduation prank, four high school students hijacked 500 screens across six school buildings to troll their classmates and teachers.

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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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US CISA Warns of Bug in Palo Alto's Firewall Software

Data Breach Today

Agency Tells Federal Government to Patch Misconfiguration by Sept. 12 Attackers could take advantage of a misconfiguration in Palo Alto firewalls to launch amplification DDoS attacks, a vulnerability that led the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added the vulnerability its catalog of actively exploited vulnerabilities.

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Hyundai Uses Example Keys for Encryption System

Schneier on Security

This is a dumb crypto mistake I had not previously encountered: A developer says it was possible to run their own software on the car infotainment hardware after discovering the vehicle’s manufacturer had secured its system using keys that were not only publicly known but had been lifted from programming examples. […]. “Turns out the [AES] encryption key in that script is the first AES 128-bit CBC example key listed in the NIST document SP800-38A [PDF]” […].

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Plex discloses data breach and urges password reset

Security Affairs

The streaming media platform Plex is urging its users to reset passwords after threat actors gained access to its database. Plex is an American streaming media service and a client–server media player platform. The company disclosed a data breach after threat actors have access to a limited subset of data stored in a compromised database. Exposed data includes emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords.

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Scans of Students’ Homes During Tests Are Deemed Unconstitutional

WIRED Threat Level

An Ohio judge ruled that such surveillance to prevent cheating could form a slippery slope to more illegal searches.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Ethereum Offers Up To $1M Bounty for Critical Bug Reports

Data Breach Today

Reward for White Hats Valid till Sept. 8 for Merge-related Vulnerabilities Ethereum is offering up to $1 million bounty to white hat hackers who identify merge-related critical vulnerabilities on its blockchain. The four-fold increase in reward will be applicable between Wednesday and Sept. 8. The merge is set to be completed by Sept.

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[HEADS UP] Highly Sophisticated Job Offer Scam

KnowBe4

If you've been approached by recruiters on LinkedIn for a potential job opportunity, you may want to pay attention to this recent scam.

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GAIROSCOPE attack allows to exfiltrate data from Air-Gapped systems via ultrasonic tones

Security Affairs

GAIROSCOPE: An Israeli researcher demonstrated how to exfiltrate data from air-gapped systems using ultrasonic tones and smartphone gyroscopes. The popular researcher Mordechai Guri from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel devise an attack technique, named GAIROSCOPE , to exfiltrate data from air-gapped systems using ultrasonic tones and smartphone gyroscopes.

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The Most Damning Allegation in the Twitter Whistleblower’s Report

WIRED Threat Level

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko’s claims about the company’s lax security are all bad. But one clearly captures the extent of systemic issues.

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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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California Fines Sephora $1.2 Million for Privacy Violations

Data Breach Today

Retailer Accused of Selling Customer Data While Failing to Honor Opt-Out Requests Retailer Sephora has been fined $1.2 million as part of a settlement agreement with California's attorney general, over accusations that it violated the California Consumer Privacy Act by failing to disclose that it was selling customers' data and not honoring their opt-out requests.

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Phishing Remains the Initial Infection Vector in 78% of Attacks Against OT-Heavy Industries

KnowBe4

Companies heavily reliant on operational technology (OT) to function are just as much a target as businesses relying in traditional IT and are facing some of the same challenges to stop attacks.

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Over 80,000 Hikvision cameras can be easily hacked

Security Affairs

Experts warn that over 80,000 Hikvision cameras are vulnerable to a critical command injection vulnerability. Security researchers from CYFIRMA have discovered over 80,000 Hikvision cameras affected by a critical command injection vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-36260. The Chinese vendor addressed the issue in September 2021, but tens of thousands of devices are yet to be patched.

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The Privacy Flaw Threatening US Democracy

WIRED Threat Level

Without robust federal protections, the country's widespread mass surveillance systems could be used against citizens like never before.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Addressing Security Risks of Mounting Legacy Health Data

Data Breach Today

In many healthcare entities, the amount of data that is being generated and retained continues to grow - and that mounting trove of legacy data is often never disposed, expanding the surface for cyberattacks and other compromises, says Matthew Bernstein of consulting firm Bernstein Data.

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Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras

Threatpost

Tens of thousands of cameras have failed to patch a critical, 11-month-old CVE, leaving thousands of organizations exposed.

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Grandoreiro banking malware targets Mexico and Spain

Security Affairs

A new Grandoreiro banking malware campaign is targeting organizations in Mexico and Spain, Zscaler reported. Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers observed a Grandoreiro banking malware campaign targeting organizations in the Spanish-speaking nations of Mexico and Spain. Grandoreiro is a modular backdoor that supports the following capabilities: Keylogging Auto-Updation for newer versions and modules Web-Injects and restricting access to specific websites Command execution Manipulating windows Guiding

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