WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 11, 2022

Plus: Russia rattles its cyber sword, a huge Facebook phishing operation is uncovered, feds take down the SSNDOB marketplace, and more.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2022

At the start of this year, analysts identified a number of trends driving the growth of cybersecurity. Among them: an expanding digital footprint, growing attack surfaces, and increasing government regulation. Related: Taking API proliferation seriously. Last year saw an unprecedented $21.8 billion in venture capital poured into cybersecurity companies globally.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2022

Researchers at the University of Hamburg demonstrated that WiFi connection probe requests expose users to track. A group of academics at the University of Hamburg (Germany) demonstrated that it is possible to use WiFi connection probe requests to identify and track devices and thereby their users. Mobile devices transmit probe requests to receive information about nearby Wi-Fi networks and establish a Wi-Fi connection.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 17, 2022

DXC Technology's Michael Baker on Top Threats, Recruitment Tips, Career Advice Threat watch: The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war continues to pose both direct and indirect risks to enterprise networks, says Michael Baker, vice president and IT CISO of IT services and consulting firm DXC Technology. He also discusses recruiting and retaining new talent.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 14, 2022

Cybercrime groups that specialize in stealing corporate data and demanding a ransom not to publish it have tried countless approaches to shaming their victims into paying. The latest innovation in ratcheting up the heat comes from the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group, which has traditionally published any stolen victim data on the Dark Web. Today, however, the group began publishing individual victim websites on the public Internet, with the leaked data made available in an easily searchable form

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 16, 2022

New details connect police in India to a plot to plant evidence on victims' computers that led to their arrest.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 16, 2022

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report includes highlights and observations from RSA Conference 2022, including a key message from RSA CEO Rohit Ghai. It also discusses the value of automation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's mission to grow cyber talent.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2022

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix 60 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software, including a zero-day flaw in all supported Microsoft Office versions on all flavors of Windows that’s seen active exploitation for at least two months now. On a lighter note, Microsoft is officially retiring its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, which turns 27 years old this year.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

China-linked threat actors exploited the zero-day flaw CVE-2022-1040 in Sophos Firewall weeks before it was fixed by the security vendor. Volexity researchers discovered that the zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-1040 , in Sophos Firewall was exploited by Chinese threat actors to compromise a company and cloud-hosted web servers it was operating.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

A cyberattack is any action taken by a cyber criminal in an attempt to illegally gain control of a computer, device, network, or system with malicious intent. Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Cyberattacks are on the rise, with cyber criminal trends and techniques becoming increasingly sophisticated and creative.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 17, 2022

The State of Passwordless in 2022, New Identity Technologies In the latest weekly update, Jeremy Grant, coordinator of the Better Identity Coalition, joins three editors at ISMG to discuss important cybersecurity issues, including where we are with passwordless, if we are getting closer to a U.S. federal privacy law, and next-gen authentication technologies.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 14, 2022

A 33-year-old Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison today following his conviction last year for operating services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against hundreds of thousands of Internet users and websites. The user interface for Downthem[.]org. Matthew Gatrel of St. Charles, Ill. was found guilty for violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) related to his operation of downthem[.]org and ampnode[.]com , two

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2022

Ransomware gangs are actively exploiting CVE-2022-26134 remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center. Multiple ransomware groups are actively exploiting the recently disclosed remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-26134 , affecting Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center. Proof-of-concept exploits for the CVE-2022-26134 vulnerability have been released online, Bleeping Computer reported that starting from Friday afternoon, a proo

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IT Governance

JUNE 15, 2022

In an increasingly digital world, there are an escalating number of cyber security risks for business to address. Criminal hackers are adept at spotting weaknesses, while organisations do themselves no favours when they fail to adequately protect their systems. IT Governance identified more than 1,200 publicly disclosed data breaches in 2021 , while another report found that security incidents cost almost £3 million on average.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 15, 2022

CISO of Maricopa County, Arizona on Strengthening Election Security "Social media is probably the newest and most impactful thing that we've seen from a cybersecurity perspective at Maricopa County," says its CISO, Lester Godsey. The only response to misinformation and disinformation campaigns, he says, is to use the same platform and respond with the facts.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 17, 2022

Most of the attacks involve the use of automated exploits, security vendor says.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2022

Iran-linked Lyceum APT group uses a new.NET-based DNS backdoor to target organizations in the energy and telecommunication sectors. The Iran-linked Lyceum APT group, aka Hexane or Spilrin, used a new.NET-based DNS backdoor in a campaign aimed at companies in the energy and telecommunication sectors, ZScaler researchers warn. The activity of the Lyceum APT group was first documented earlier in August 2019 by researchers at ICS security firm Dragos which tracked it as Hexane.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 14, 2022

Attackers are taking advantage of the current news about monkeypox to trick people into clicking on malicious links, Pickr reports. Researchers at Mimecast have spotted a phishing campaign that impersonates companies in an attempt to trick employees into visiting phony health safety sites that steal their information.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 17, 2022

KnowBe4's Roger Grimes on Why MFA Alone Isn't a Successful Hack Prevention Strategy Phishing is no longer restricted to just emails. As attackers broaden their arsenal, businesses today also need to be on the lookout for impersonation attempts via SMS text messages or voice calls, says Roger Grimes, a data-driven defense evangelist at KnowBe4.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 17, 2022

We’ve always known that phones—and the people carrying them—can be uniquely identified from their Bluetooth signatures, and that we need security techniques to prevent that. This new research shows that that’s not enough. Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego proved in a study published May 24 that minute imperfections in phones caused during manufacturing create a unique Bluetooth beacon , one that establishes a digital signature or fingerprint di

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2022

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Ransomware gangs are exploiting CVE-2022-26134 RCE in Atlassian Confluence servers HID Mercury Access Controller flaws could allow to unlock Doors Iran-linked Lyceum APT adds a new.NET DNS Backdoor to its arsenal PACMAN, a new attack technique against

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KnowBe4

JUNE 13, 2022

Researchers at PIXM have uncovered a major Facebook Messenger phishing scam that’s “potentially impacted hundreds of millions of Facebook users.” More than eight million people have visited just one of these phishing pages so far this year.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 15, 2022

Incident Is Latest on Growing List of Recent Major Healthcare Data Hacks An Arizona medical center that suffered a ransomware attack in April has begun notifying 700,000 individuals of a data breach compromising sensitive medical and personal information. The incident is among the latest major health data breaches involving ransomware.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 16, 2022

Interesting research: “ Sponge Examples: Energy-Latency Attacks on Neural Networks “: Abstract: The high energy costs of neural network training and inference led to the use of acceleration hardware such as GPUs and TPUs. While such devices enable us to train large-scale neural networks in datacenters and deploy them on edge devices, their designers’ focus so far is on average-case performance.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2022

The BlackCat ransomware gang is targeting unpatched Exchange servers to compromise target networks, Microsoft warns. Microsoft researchers have observed BlackCat ransomware gang targeting unpatched Exchange servers to compromise organizations worldwide. The compromise of Exchange servers allows threat actors to access the target networks, perform internal reconnaissance and lateral movement activities, and steal sensitive documents before encrypting them. “For example, while the common ent

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KnowBe4

JUNE 16, 2022

Threat actors are targeting HR employees who are looking to hire new people, according to Lisa Vaas at Contrast Security. As part of their job, HR employees frequently interact with people outside of the organization and are more likely to open external files. Attackers frequently take advantage of this by hiding malware within phony resumé files.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 17, 2022

Backdoored Apps Allow Normal Functioning of Wallet While Exfiltrating Master Key A "technically sophisticated" threat campaign is cloning cryptocurrency apps to steal funds from web3 wallet users, security researchers at Confiant say. The campaign, dubbed SeaFlower, uses cloned wallet apps offered by MetaMask, Coinbase, imToken and TokenPocket to carry out the theft.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 14, 2022

With the plunge in tech stocks and the freeze in the IPO market, the funding environment for cybersecurity startups has come under pressure. According to Pitchbook, the amount of venture capital investment in the first quarter was off by 35.8% to $5.1 billion on a quarter-over-quarter basis. The median late-stage valuation fell by 26.1%. VCs are certainly getting pickier with their investments.

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