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.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 6, 2024
Also: FBI Warns About Work-From-Home Scammers Demanding Crypto This week, Robinhood said it will acquire Bitstamp in a $200 million deal, a senior promoter of the Forcount crypto Ponzi scheme pleaded guilty, crypto scammers targeted work-from-home job seekers, and Tether and CoinGecko warned of crypto phishing attacks.
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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.
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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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.
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Security Affairs
JUNE 5, 2024
Cisco addressed vulnerabilities that were exploited to compromise the Webex meetings of the German government. In early May, German media outlet Zeit Online revealed that threat actors exploited vulnerabilities in the German government’s implementation of the Cisco Webex software to access internal meetings. In March, the German authorities admitted the hack by Russia-linked actors of a military meeting where participants discussed giving military support to Ukraine. “In early May 2024, Ci
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 4, 2024
Business data today gets scattered far and wide across distributed infrastructure. Just knowing where to look – or even how to look – much less enforcing security policies, has become next to impossible for many organizations. At RSAC 2024 , I visited with Pranava Adduri , co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Security which has just rolled out its AI Reasoning (AIR) Engine to help solve this problem in a bold new way.
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.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 3, 2024
Company Says Single-Factor Authentication Accounts Are to Blame - Not a Flaw Hackers are targeting clients of artificial intelligence data platform provider Snowflake that lack multifactor authentication, the company warns. Threat actors are compromising organizations’ Snowflake customer tenants by using stolen credentials obtained by info-stealing malware, said Mandiant.
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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
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 3, 2024
When Log4J came to light in 2021, Kinnaird McQuade , then a security engineer at Square , drew the assignment of testing endpoints at some 5,000 users of the popular mobile payments service. Related: The big lesson from Log4J “It took us eight hours to run the scan and I was sweating it because these were all small family businesses that depended on Square, and if any of them got popped, it would be real people that were affected,” McQuade told me.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 6, 2024
The number of alleged hacks targeting the customers of cloud storage firm Snowflake appears to be snowballing into one of the biggest data breaches of all time.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 5, 2024
Panel Discusses Trends in Ransomware, Application Security and Generative AI Information Security Media Group editors are live at InfoSecurity Europe Conference 2024 in London with an overview of opening-day activities and hot topics including the latest ransomware trends, software security, election security and artificial intelligence risks.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
Security Affairs
JUNE 3, 2024
Russia-linked APT28 used the HeadLace malware and credential-harvesting web pages in attacks against networks across Europe. Researchers at Insikt Group observed Russian GRU’s unit APT28 targeting networks across Europe with information-stealer Headlace and credential-harvesting web pages. The experts observed the APT deploying Headlace in three distinct phases from April to December 2023, respectively, using phishing, compromised internet services, and living off the land binaries.
Elie
JUNE 5, 2024
This case-study explores the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training through the lens of a custom VR application developped to train Google employees.
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.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 5, 2024
Sophos Finds 3 Clusters of Activity Dating at Least to May 2023 A government agency in a country that has repeatedly clashed with China over Beijing's territorial ambitions in the South China Sea was the subject of a prolonged cyberespionage campaign that used previously undetected backdoors and partially overlaps with known Sino state threat actors.
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Security Affairs
JUNE 6, 2024
The FBI is informing victims of LockBit ransomware it has obtained over 7,000 LockBit decryption keys that could allow some of them to decrypt their data. The FBI is inviting victims of LockBit ransomware to come forward because it has obtained over 7,000 LockBit decryption keys that could allow them to recover their encrypted data for free. “Additionally, from our ongoing disruption of LockBit, we now have over 7,000 decryption keys and can help victims reclaim their data and get back onl
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.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 4, 2024
When a drug kingpin named Microsoft tried to seize control of an encrypted phone company for criminals, he was playing right into its real owners’ hands.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 5, 2024
CHERI Architecture Enforces Memory Safety in Hardware A U.K. government official on Tuesday touted the potential of a processor designed to prevent memory-based cyberattacks even as he acknowledged commercial hurdles to its widespread adoption. The CHERI processor reduces attack surface, said John Goodacre.
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.
Security Affairs
JUNE 7, 2024
Akamai observed a Chinese-speaking group exploiting two flaws, tracked as CVE-2018-20062 and CVE-2019-9082, in ThinkPHP applications. Akamai researchers observed a Chinese threat actor exploiting two old remote code execution vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2018-20062 and CVE-2019-9082 , in ThinkPHP. The campaign seems to have been active since at least October 2023, it initially targeted a limited number of customers/organizations but recently became widespread.
KnowBe4
JUNE 7, 2024
New data highlights just how dangerous this often malwareless cyber attack method really is, and whether organizations were ready to stop the attack.
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.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 6, 2024
Redmond Calls Tenable Report Evidence of Customers Misconstruing Azure Service Tags Microsoft is calling security research asserting a high-severity vulnerability exists in Microsoft Azure evidence that customers should better configure their cloud environments. An attacker with an Azure instance could obtain access to company resources by sending customizable HTTP requests.
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Security Affairs
JUNE 1, 2024
Ticketmaster owner Live Nation confirmed the Ticketmaster data breach that compromised the data of 560 million customers. ShinyHunters, the current administrator of BreachForums , recently claimed the hack of Ticketmaster and offered for sale 1.3 TB of data, including full details of 560 million customers, for $500,000. Stolen data includes names, emails, addresses, phone numbers, ticket sales, and order details.
KnowBe4
JUNE 4, 2024
As email compromise attacks increase, analysis of tactics used provide context on how organizations need to evolve their preventative strategy to align.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 4, 2024
YouTube remains the only major US-based social media platform available in Russia. It’s become "indispensable" to everyday people, making a ban tricky. Journalists and dissidents are taking advantage.
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