Data Breach Today
JUNE 6, 2022
Pharma Maker Disputes Data Compromise Amid Reported Rise in Sector Attacks Novartis says no sensitive information was compromised in an alleged attack involving the drugmaker's data showing up for sale on the dark web. The incident comes as new reports warn of a surge in cyberattacks on healthcare sector entities and the return of Emotet malware.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 7, 2022
Writing a code can be compared to writing a letter. Related: Political apps promote division. When we write a letter, we write it in the language we speak — and the one that the recipient understands. When writing a code, the developer does it in a language that the computer understands, that is, a programing language. With this language, the developer describes a program scenario that determines what the program is required to do, and under what circumstances.
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Dark Reading
JUNE 6, 2022
A single compromised Slack account can easily be leveraged to deceive other users and gain additional access to other users and multiple Slack channels.
Security Affairs
JUNE 9, 2022
Researchers uncovered a high stealth Linux malware, dubbed Symbiote, that could be used to backdoor infected systems. Joint research conducted by security firms Intezer and BlackBerry uncovered a new Linux threat dubbed Symbiote. The name comes from the concept of symbiote which is an organism that lives in symbiosis with another organism, exactly like this implant does with the infected systems.
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Krebs on Security
JUNE 7, 2022
Netflix has a new documentary series airing next week — “ Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet ” — in which Yours Truly apparently has a decent amount of screen time. The debut episode explores the far-too-common harassment tactic of “ swatting ” — wherein fake bomb threats or hostage situations are phoned in to police as part of a scheme to trick them into visiting potentially deadly force on a target’s address.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 10, 2022
Company Becomes the 3rd Late-Stage Startup to Cut Headcount in the Past 3 Weeks OneTrust has laid off 25% of its staff - or 950 workers - making it the third late-stage startup to significantly cut headcount in recent weeks. The Atlanta-based privacy and data governance vendor says the capital markets want to see a more balanced approach between growth and profitability.
Security Affairs
JUNE 7, 2022
The QBot malware operation has partnered with Black Basta ransomware group to target organizations worldwide. Researchers from NCC Group spotted a new partnership in the threat landscape between the Black Basta ransomware group and the QBot malware operation. Black Basta has been active since April 2022, like other ransomware operations, it implements a double-extortion attack model. .
Krebs on Security
JUNE 10, 2022
At the outset of their federal criminal trial for hijacking vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct (now Amobee ) have pleaded guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges of fraud and misrepresentation via email. In October 2018, prosecutors in the Southern District of California named four Adconion employees — Jacob Bychak , Mark Manoogian , Petr Pacas , and Mohammed Abdul Qayyum
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 6, 2022
Reducing the attack surface of a company’s network should, by now, be a top priority for all organizations. Related: Why security teams ought to embrace complexity. As RSA Conference 2022 gets underway today in San Francisco, advanced systems to help companies comprehensively inventory their cyber assets for enhanced visibility to improve asset and cloud configurations and close security gaps will be in the spotlight.
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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
Data Breach Today
JUNE 10, 2022
Highly Evasive Symbiote Can Hide Itself and Other Malware Post-Infection New malware called Symbiote is affecting Linux operating systems by infecting other running processes to inflict damage on machines, say Intezer security researcher Joakim Kennedy and the BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence Team, who jointly conducted the research.
Security Affairs
JUNE 6, 2022
LockBit ransomware gang claims to have hacked the cybersecurity firm Mandiant, which is investigating the alleged security breach. Today the LockBit ransomware gang has added the cybersecurity firm Mandiant to the list of victims published on its darkweb leak site. Mandiant is investigating the claims of the ransomware gang, the cybercrime group declared to have stolen 356841 files from the company and plans to leak them online.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 7, 2022
Apple’s iOS 16 and macOS Ventura will introduce passwordless login for apps and websites. It’s only the beginning.
Dark Reading
JUNE 9, 2022
AI works best when security professionals and AI are complementing each other.
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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.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 6, 2022
Hacker Demands Ransom; Ministry Says Personal Data of Users Secure The website of the Russian Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities was reportedly hacked and defaced on Sunday. The attacker demands a 1-million-ruble ransom be paid by Tuesday to ensure the security of stolen data. A ministry spokesperson told a state news agency that all data is protected.
Security Affairs
JUNE 8, 2022
Black Basta ransomware gang implemented a new feature to encrypt VMware ESXi virtual machines (VMs) running on Linux servers. The Black Basta ransomware gang now supports encryption of VMware ESXi virtual machines (VMs) running on Linux servers. Researchers from Uptycs first reported the discovery of the new Black Basta ransomware variant that supports encryption of VMWare ESXi servers.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 7, 2022
Apple’s iOS 16 and macOS Ventura will introduce passwordless login for apps and websites. It’s only the beginning.
Dark Reading
JUNE 10, 2022
Next-generation AI products learn proactively and identify changes in the networks, users, and databases using "data drift" to adapt to specific threats as they evolve.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 10, 2022
How a Threat Actor Stole Credentials, Evaded Security Teams and Made Money Via Ads A phishing campaign used stolen credentials to log into Facebook user accounts and send links leading to phishing pages to the victims' friends to harvest their credentials. Researchers detail the evasion techniques the threat actor allegedly used to likely make millions from the scam.
Security Affairs
JUNE 6, 2022
Resecurity, Inc. (USA) has identified an increase in activity within hacktivist groups conducted by a new group called “Cyber Spetsnaz”. Resecurity, Inc. (USA) has identified an increase in activity within hacktivist groups, they’re leveraging current geopolitical tensions between the Ukraine and Russia to perform cyber-attacks. Following the attacks of the Killnet Collective, the group responsible for the attacks against major government resources and law enforcement, a new group has been ident
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 8, 2022
Using a custom encryption scheme within music notation, Merryl Goldberg and three other US musicians slipped information to Soviet performers and activists known as the Phantom Orchestra.
eSecurity Planet
JUNE 10, 2022
About 90% of security buyers aren’t getting the efficacy from their products that vendors claim they can deliver, according to a panel at this week’s RSA Conference that also offered some solutions to begin to fix that problem. Joe Hubback of cyber risk management startup ISTARI led both the panel and the study, which was based on in-depth interviews with more than a hundred high-level security officials, including CISOs, CIOs, CEOs, security and tech vendors, evaluation organization
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 7, 2022
A Chapter of the New Book 'Heuristic Risk Management' by Michael Lines Michael Lines is working with ISMG to promote awareness of the need for cyber risk management, and the CyberEdBoard is posting draft chapters from his upcoming book, "Heuristic Risk Management: Be Aware, Get Prepared, Defend Yourself." This chapter - the last in the series - is titled "Building an Effective Defense.
Security Affairs
JUNE 4, 2022
Operation Russia continues, albeit much more slowly than last month, RKPLaw, Vyberi Radio, and Metprom Group are the last victims. The #OpRussia launched by Anonymous on Russia after the criminal invasion of Ukraine continues, albeit much more slowly than last month. The collective recently leaked stolen data via DDoSecrets. This is my update on the recent attack and associated data leaks via the DDoSecrets platform: RRustam Kurmaev and Partners (RKP Law) – RKP Law is a Russian law firm th
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 8, 2022
Using a custom encryption scheme within music notation, Merryl Goldberg and three other US musicians slipped information to Soviet performers and activists known as the Phantom Orchestra.
Dark Reading
JUNE 6, 2022
A panel of CISOs at the RSA Conference outlined what a successful first 90-day plan looks like, and it boiled down to effective communication and listening.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 4, 2022
DOJ: Now-Shuttered Site Sold Data Obtained from 10,000 data breaches The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI announced the seizure of three domains after an investigation that found these domains selling stolen personal information and providing access to conduct distributed denial-of-service attacks. The domain includes weleakinfo.to, ipstress.in and ovh-booter.com.
Security Affairs
JUNE 4, 2022
GitLab addresses a critical security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-1680, that could be exploited by an attacker to take over users’ accounts. GitLab has fixed a critical security flaw in its GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE), tracked as CVE-2022-1680 (CVSS score 9.9), that could be exploited to take over an account. The vulnerability impacts all versions starting from 11.10 before 14.9.5, all versions starting from 14.10 before 14.10.4, all versions starting from 15.0 before 15.0.1. R
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 7, 2022
MongoDB claims its new “Queryable Encryption” lets users search their databases while sensitive data stays encrypted. Oh, and its cryptography is open source.
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