Sat.May 14, 2022 - Fri.May 20, 2022

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When Your Smart ID Card Reader Comes With Malware

Krebs on Security

Millions of U.S. government employees and contractors have been issued a secure smart ID card that enables physical access to buildings and controlled spaces, and provides access to government computer networks and systems at the cardholder’s appropriate security level. But many government employees aren’t issued an approved card reader device that lets them use these cards at home or remotely, and so turn to low-cost readers they find online.

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GUEST ESSAY: A primer on content management systems (CMS) — and how to secure them

The Last Watchdog

You very likely will interact with a content management system (CMS) multiple times today. Related: How ‘business logic’ hackers steal from companies. For instance, the The Last Watchdog article you are reading uses a CMS to store posts, display them in an attractive manner, and provide search capabilities. Wikipedia uses a CMS for textual entries, blog posts, images, photographs, videos, charts, graphics, and “ talk pages ” that help its many contributors collaborate.

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2 Health Plans Report Major Breaches Following Attacks

Data Breach Today

Incidents Allegedly Involved Conti, Hive Ransomware Gangs Two recent apparent ransomware attacks on health plans have potentially affected hundreds of thousands of individuals. One of the incidents allegedly involved the Conti ransomware group, and the other allegedly involved Hive. One of the health plans is already facing legal fallout.

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China-linked Space Pirates APT targets the Russian aerospace industry

Security Affairs

A new China-linked cyberespionage group known as ‘Space Pirates’ is targeting enterprises in the Russian aerospace industry. A previously unknown Chinese cyberespionage group, tracked as ‘Space Pirates’, targets enterprises in the Russian aerospace industry with spear-phishing attacks. The group has been active since at least 2017, researchers believe it is linked with other China-linked APT groups, including APT41 (Winnti), Mustang Panda , and APT27.

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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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This Hacktivist Site Lets You Prank-Call Russian Officials

WIRED Threat Level

To protest the war in Ukraine, WasteRussianTime.today auto-dials Russian government officials, connects them to each other, and lets you listen in to their confusion.

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CISA Advises Federal Agencies to Patch VMware Flaws

Data Breach Today

Emergency Directive Says Many Threat Actors Are Exploiting the Bugs in the Wild An emergency directive from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency advises all federal agencies in the country to immediately patch and address two vulnerabilities - one with a critical CVSS score and the other with a high score - that affect at least five VMware products.

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OpRussia update: Anonymous breached other organizations

Security Affairs

Another week has passed and Anonymous has hacked other Russian companies and leaked their data via DDoSecrets. The #OpRussia launched by Anonymous on Russia after the criminal invasion of Ukraine continues, the collective claims to have hacked multiple organizations and government entities. The hacktivists leaked the stolen data via DDoSecrets. Below is the list of organizations breached this week by Anonymous: SOCAR Energoresource operates the Antipinsky Refinery and several oilfields.

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US Courts Are Coming After Crypto Exchanges That Skirt Sanctions

WIRED Threat Level

A newly unsealed opinion is likely the first decision from a US federal court to find that cryptocurrencies can't be used to evade sanctions.

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GUEST ESSAY: Here’s why managed security services — MSS and MSSP — are catching on

The Last Watchdog

The unification revolution of cybersecurity solutions has started – and managed security service providers are leading the way. Managed security services (MSS) refer to a service model that enable the monitoring and managing of security technologies, systems, or even software-as-a-service (SaaS) products. Here’s more on the various types and benefits of MSS, as well as the state of the MSS(P) market in 2022!

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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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Ransomware Ecosystem: Big Changes Since Colonial Pipeline

Data Breach Today

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the changes in the ransomware landscape one year after the attack on Colonial Pipeline. It also revisits the Ryuk ransomware attack on a school district in Illinois and examines common culprits hindering effective Zero Trust adoption.

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Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022 D1: MS Teams exploits received $450,000

Security Affairs

White hat hackers earned a total of $800,000 on the first day of the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022, $450,000 for exploits targeting Microsoft Teams. Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022 hacking contest has begun, it is the 15th edition of this important event organized by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). This year, 17 contestants are attempting to exploit 21 targets across multiple categories.

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Spyware Vendors Target Android With Zero-Day Exploits

WIRED Threat Level

New research from Google's Threat Analysis Group outlines the risks Android users face from the surveillance-for-hire industry.

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NEW TECH SNAPHOT: Can ‘CAASM’ help slow, perhaps reverse, attack surface expansion?

The Last Watchdog

Defending companies as they transition to cloud-first infrastructures has become a very big problem – but it’s certainly not an unsolvable one. Coming Wed., May 18: How security teams can help drive business growth — by embracing complexity. . The good news is that a long-overdue transition to a new attack surface and security paradigm is well underway, one built on a fresh set of cloud-native security frameworks and buttressed by software-defined security technologies.

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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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What Is Behind the Increase in Crypto Fraud?

Data Breach Today

Experian's David Britton on Connection Between Benefits Programs, Crypto Fraud There has been a rise in crypto fraud, and a substantial portion of it can be attributed to stimulus funding and paycheck protection programs, says David Britton, vice president of strategy, global ID and fraud at Experian. He discusses new authentication methods and stricter regulations.

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Google OAuth client library flaw allowed to deploy of malicious payloads

Security Affairs

Google addressed a high-severity flaw in its OAuth client library for Java that could allow attackers with a compromised token to deploy malicious payloads. Google addressed a high-severity authentication bypass flaw in Google OAuth Client Library for Java, tracked as CVE-2021-22573 (CVS Score 8.7), that could be exploited by an attacker with a compromised token to deploy malicious payloads.

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Your iPhone Is Vulnerable to a Malware Attack Even When It’s Off

WIRED Threat Level

Researchers found a way to exploit the tech that enables Apple’s Find My feature, which could allow attackers to track location when a device is powered down.

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MY TAKE: How ‘CAASM’ can help security teams embrace complexity – instead of trying to tame it

The Last Watchdog

The shift to software-defined everything and reliance on IT infrastructure scattered across the Internet has boosted corporate productivity rather spectacularly. Related: Stopping attack surface expansion. And yet, the modern attack surface continues to expand exponentially, largely unchecked. This dichotomy cannot be tolerated over the long run. Encouragingly, an emerging class of network visibility technology is gaining notable traction.

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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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Conti Claims It Has 'Insiders' in Costa Rican Government

Data Breach Today

Ransomware Group Continues to Demand Ransom Payment From Besieged Government Ransomware group Conti, which has been holding to ransom crypto-locked Costa Rican government systems since April, has claimed on its leak site Conti News that it has "insiders" in the country's government, and that they are working toward the compromise of "other systems.

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Conti Ransomware gang threatens to overthrow the government of Costa Rica

Security Affairs

The Conti ransomware gang is threatening to ‘overthrow’ the new government of Costa Rica after last month’s attack. Last month, the Conti ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the attack on Costa Rica government infrastructure after that the government refused to pay a ransom. “The Costa Rican state will not pay anything to these cybercriminals.” said Costa Rica President Carlos Alvarado.

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The NSA Swears It Has ‘No Backdoors’ in Next-Gen Encryption

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: New details of ICE’s dragnet surveillance in the US, Clearview AI agrees to limit sales of its faceprint database, and more.

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UpdateAgent Adapts Again

Jamf

The Jamf Threat Labs team has recently identified changes to the UpdateAgent malware dropper. These changes primarily focus on new executables written in Swift that reach out to a registration server to pull down a new set of instructions in the form of a bash script. Perhaps one of the most identifiable features of the malware is that it relies on the AWS infrastructure to host its various payloads and perform its infection status updates to the server.

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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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Google Unveils Service to Secure Open-Source Dependencies

Data Breach Today

Assured Open Source Software Ensures Software Is Fuzz-Tested for Vulnerabilities Google will offer customers access to the same technology it uses to lock down developer workflows to ensure open-source dependencies are addressed. Assured Open Source Software will allow clients to ensure third-party software they're using is scanned, analyzed and fuzz-tested for vulnerabilities.

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The activity of the Linux XorDdos bot increased by 254% over the last six months

Security Affairs

Microsoft researchers have observed a spike in the activity of the Linux bot XorDdos over the last six months. XORDDoS , also known as XOR.DDoS , first appeared in the threat landscape in 2014 it is a Linux Botnet that was employed in attacks against gaming and education websites with massive DDoS attacks that reached 150 gigabytes per second of malicious traffic.

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Websites that Collect Your Data as You Type

Schneier on Security

A surprising number of websites include JavaScript keyloggers that collect everything you type as you type it, not just when you submit a form. Researchers from KU Leuven, Radboud University, and University of Lausanne crawled and analyzed the top 100,000 websites, looking at scenarios in which a user is visiting a site while in the European Union and visiting a site from the United States.

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6 Scary Tactics Used in Mobile App Attacks

Dark Reading

Mobile attacks have been going on for many years, but the threat is rapidly evolving as more sophisticated malware families with novel features enter the scene.

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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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CISA: Majority of US Gov Will Be Getting EDR Later in 2022

Data Breach Today

EDR Deployments Will be Underway at More Than Half of Federal Agencies This Year EDR deployments will be underway at more than half of federal civilian agencies by the end of September, according to federal officials. CISA is currently in the process of deploying EDR across 26 federal civilian agencies and expects to have work underway at 53 agencies by Sept. 30, 2022.

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Pro-Russian hacktivists target Italy government websites

Security Affairs

Pro-Russian hacker group Killnet targeted the websites of several Italian institutions, including the senate and the National Institute of Health. A group of Pro-Russian hackers known as “ Killnet ” launched an attack against multiple websites of several Italian institutions, including the senate, the National Institute of Health, and the Automobile Club d’Italia (ACI), the national drivers’ association.

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Spear Phishing a Diplomat

KnowBe4

Researchers at Fortinet observed a spear phishing attack that targeted a Jordanian diplomat late last month. The researchers attribute this attack to the Iranian state-sponsored threat actor APT34 (also known as OilRig or Helix Kitten). The body of the phishing email isn’t particularly detailed, but the attackers put a significant amount of effort into impersonating an employee at the targeted individual’s organization.

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