Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

U.S. and U.K. authorities have seized the darknet websites run by LockBit , a prolific and destructive ransomware group that has claimed more than 2,000 victims worldwide and extorted over $120 million in payments. Instead of listing data stolen from ransomware victims who didn’t pay, LockBit’s victim shaming website now offers free recovery tools, as well as news about arrests and criminal charges involving LockBit affiliates.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

AI chatbots are computer programs that talk like humans, gaining popularity for quick responses. They boost customer service, efficiency and user experience by offering constant help, handling routine tasks, and providing prompt and personalized interactions. Related: The security case for AR, VR AI chatbots use natural language processing, which enables them to understand and respond to human language and machine learning algorithms.

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AIIM

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Recently, the Association for Intelligent Information Management and Business Forms Management Association announced that they have joined forces. BFMA is now a part of AIIM! Read the full press release here. As a longtime board member of BFMA and a new member of AIIM, I wanted to share why forms management matters to information management.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Company Mainly Hacked for the Ministry of Public Security An apparent leak of internal documents from a Chinese hacking contractor paints a picture of a disaffected, poorly paid workforce that nonetheless penetrated multiple regional governments and possibly NATO. Multiple experts told Information Security Media Group the documents appear to be legitimate.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A new data leak that appears to have come from one of China’s top private cybersecurity firms provides a rare glimpse into the commercial side of China’s many state-sponsored hacking groups. Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

How Thales and Red Hat Protect Telcos from API Attacks madhav Thu, 02/22/2024 - 04:55 Application programming interfaces (APIs) power nearly every aspect of modern applications and have become the backbone of today’s economy. Every time you send a mobile payment, search for airline flight prices, or book a restaurant reservation - you are using an API.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Experts Speculate About Whether the Hack Involved the ScreenConnect Flaw Exploit Pharmacies at U.S. military hospitals and clinics worldwide are among the entities affected by the cyberattack on Optum's Change Healthcare this week, which has forced the IT services company to take many of its applications offline. Change Healthcare disconnected its IT systems on Wednesday.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Cybersecurity firm ESET has addressed a high-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability in its Windows security solution. ESET addressed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-0353 (CVSS score 7.8), in its Windows products. The vulnerability is a local privilege escalation issue that was submitted to the company by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI).

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they look like this: These get through all the technical controls that exist at my telco and they land smack bang in my SMS inbox. However, I don't fall for the scams because I look for the warning signs: a sense of urgency, fear of missing out, and strange URLs that look nothing like any

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Microsoft announced that it caught Chinese, Russian, and Iranian hackers using its AI tools—presumably coding tools—to improve their hacking abilities. From their report : In collaboration with OpenAI, we are sharing threat intelligence showing detected state affiliated adversaries—tracked as Forest Blizzard, Emerald Sleet, Crimson Sandstorm, Charcoal Typhoon, and Salmon Typhoon—using LLMs to augment cyberoperations.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Exposed Database at Network Services Firm Included Server Log Details A global data center provider Zenlayer exposed an internal database accessible on the internet, revealing approximately 384 million records. A spokesperson said no internal or customer operational data, credentials or network traffic was impacted.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

CISA warns that the Akira Ransomware gang is exploiting the Cisco ASA/FTD vulnerability CVE-2020-3259 (CVSS score: 7.5) in attacks in the wild. This week the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Cisco ASA and FTD bug, tracked as CVE-2020-3259 (CVSS score: 7.5), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The vulnerability CVE-2020-3259 is an information disclosure issue that resides in the web services interface of ASA and FTD.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

On February 21, 2024, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (“CIPL”) published a white paper on Building Accountable AI Programs: Mapping Emerging Best Practices to the CIPL Accountability Framework. The white paper showcases how 20 leading organizations are developing accountable AI programs and best practices. The white paper discusses how organizational accountability is fundamental to the responsible development and deployment of AI.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

First-person account of someone who fell for a scam, that started as a fake Amazon service rep and ended with a fake CIA agent, and lost $50,000 cash. And this is not a naive or stupid person. The details are fascinating. And if you think it couldn’t happen to you, think again. Given the right set of circumstances, it can. It happened to Cory Doctorow.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Numerous Impediments Remain If Administrators Attempt to Reboot the Operation The notorious ransomware-as-a-service group LockBit, disrupted by law enforcement this week, was developing a new version of its crypto-locking malware prior to being shut down, security researchers reported. Even so, experts say it's unlikely the group would be able to successfully reboot.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

SolarWinds addressed three critical vulnerabilities in its Access Rights Manager (ARM) solution, including two RCE bugs. SolarWinds has fixed several Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in its Access Rights Manager (ARM) solution. Access Rights Manager (ARM) is a software solution designed to assist organizations in managing and monitoring access rights and permissions within their IT infrastructure.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A firewall audit is a procedure for reviewing and reconfiguring firewalls as needed so they still suit your organization’s security goals. Over time, business network needs, traffic patterns, and application access change. Auditing your firewall is one of the most important steps to ensuring it’s still equipped to protect the perimeter of your business’ network.

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

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

New research : LLM Agents can Autonomously Hack Websites Abstract: In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly capable and can now interact with tools (i.e., call functions), read documents, and recursively call themselves. As a result, these LLMs can now function autonomously as agents. With the rise in capabilities of these agents, recent work has speculated on how LLM agents would affect cybersecurity.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Aleksanteri Kivimaki Vanished After the Court Ordered His Reconfinement A Finnish hacker on trial for his alleged role in the hack and leak of mental patient notes taken during psychotherapy sessions has vanished. A Finnish court on Friday ordered Aleksanteri Tomminpoika Kivimäki back into jail. He was under home detention at the time of his disappearance.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

VMware urges customers to uninstall the deprecated Enhanced Authentication Plugin (EAP) after the disclosure of a critical flaw CVE-2024-22245. VMware is urging users to uninstall the deprecated Enhanced Authentication Plugin (EAP) after the discovery of an arbitrary authentication relay flaw CVE-2024-22245 (CVSS score: 9.6). A threat actor could trick a domain user with EAP installed in its web browser into requesting and relaying service tickets for arbitrary Active Directory Service Principal

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While this week was a little light on vulnerability news, it’s still been significant, with Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday happening as well as updates for major products, like Zoom. Akira ransomware vulnerabilities have also surfaced in older Cisco products, and SolarWinds patched some remote code execution flaws in its Access Rights Manager product.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In an era of accelerating climate change , predicting the near-future can yield major benefits. For instance, when utility officials are aware that a heat wave is on its way, they can plan energy procurement to prevent power outages. When farmers in drought-prone regions are able to predict which crops are susceptible to failure , they can deploy additional irrigation.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Even if Group Reboots, Disruption Already Stands as a Success, Experts Say Blue Monday arrived late this year for the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service group, after an international coalition of law enforcement agencies seized swathes of its infrastructure. Security experts said even if the down-on-its-heels group reboots, the disruption already stands as a big win.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

China-linked APT group Mustang Panda targeted various Asian countries with a variant of the PlugX (aka Korplug) backdoor dubbed DOPLUGS. Trend Micro researchers uncovered a cyberespionage campaign, carried out by China-linked APT group Mustang Panda , targeting Asian countries, including Taiwan, Vietnam, and Malaysia. Mustang Panda has been active since at least 2012, it targeted American and European entities such as government organizations, think tanks, NGOs , and even Catholic organiza

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A circuit-level gateway (CLG) is a firewall feature that acts as a proxy and filters packets based on session information. CLGs are important because they provide specialized security filtering and prevent the discovery of IP addresses and open ports on CLG-protected devices. The best use cases stem from how CLGs work, their pros, cons, and how they function differently than other potential solutions.

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Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Simon Willison has been playing with the video processing capabilities of the new Gemini Pro 1.5 model from Google, and it’s really impressive. Which means a lot of scary new video prompt injection attacks. And remember, given the current state of technology, prompt injection attacks are impossible to prevent in general.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

3 Suspects Charged With Using Sugar Ransomware, Phishing Attacks Against Russians Russian authorities have reportedly arrested three accused members of the SugarLocker ransomware-as-a-service operation. Their alleged crime? Targeting Russians, although one suspect has also been tied to a massive hack of Australian health insurer Medibank and subsequent data leak.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Resecurity has identified an increasing trend of cryptocurrency counterfeiting, the experts found several tokens impersonating major brands, government organizations and national fiat currencies. Resecurity has identified an increasing trend of cryptocurrency counterfeiting. Ongoing brand protection for Fortune 100 companies by cybersecurity company uncovered several tokens impersonating major brands, government organizations and even national fiat currencies.

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