How China Hacked US Phone Networks
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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SHARED INTEL: VCs pumped $21.8 billion into cybersecurity in 2021 — why there’s more to come
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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Using WiFi connection probe requests to track users
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.
Threat Watch: Russia-Ukraine War Remains Top CISO Risk
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.
Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder
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Ransomware Group Debuts Searchable Victim Data
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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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses
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.
Highlights of RSA Conference 2022
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.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2022 Edition
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.
Iran-linked Lyceum APT adds a new.NET DNS Backdoor to its arsenal
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.
15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence
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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?
Top 5 Cyber Security Risks for Businesses
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.
The Evolution of Phishing From Email to SMS and Voice Hacks
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.
“Downthem” DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 2 Years in Prison
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
Chinese DriftingCloud APT exploited Sophos Firewall Zero-Day before it was fixed
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.
The Tumultuous IT Landscape Is Making Hiring More Difficult
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Facebook Phishing Scam Steals Millions of Credentials
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.
ISMG Editors: Are We Closing in on a Federal Privacy Law?
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.
Tracking People via Bluetooth on Their Phones
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
Ransomware gangs are exploiting CVE-2022-26134 RCE in Atlassian Confluence servers
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
Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach
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.
Some Cybersecurity Startups Still Attract Funding Despite Headwinds
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.
Social Media and the Threat to Cybersecurity
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.
Attacking the Performance of Machine Learning Systems
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.
Security Affairs newsletter Round 369 by Pierluigi Paganini
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
The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report
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Monkeypox Scams Continue to Increase
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.
Medical Center Ransomware Attack Affects 700,000
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.
Getting Started With the Metasploit Framework: A Pentesting Tutorial
eSecurity Planet
JUNE 14, 2022
The Metasploit project contains some of the best security tools available, including the open source Metasploit Framework. Both pen testers and hackers use it to find and exploit vulnerabilities as well as to set up reverse shells, develop malicious payloads , or generate reports. The tool, maintained by Rapid7 , even offers comprehensive documentation , where you can learn the basics to start using it.
BlackCat Ransomware affiliates target unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers
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
Driving Responsible Innovation: How to Navigate AI Governance & Data Privacy
Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL
Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.
Understanding China’s Data Regulatory Regime: China Solicits Public Comments on Certification Rules for Cross-Border Data Processing Activities
Data Matters
JUNE 14, 2022
Certification by a professional institution is one of the mechanisms permitted under China’s Personal Information Protection Law ( PIPL ) to legitimizing cross-border transfers of personal information. Other permitted mechanisms include governmental security review and standard contractual clauses to be issued by Chinese government. However, to date, there have been no clear rules on the criteria and procedures for obtaining the PIPL certification.
How to Ditch the Silo and Safeguard Medical Devices
Data Breach Today
JUNE 14, 2022
CEO Wael Mohamed on Why Forescout Bought IoMT Firm CyberMDX, Analytics Firm Cysiv Since joining Forescout 15 months ago as CEO, Wael Mohamed has aggressively pursued acquisitions, scooping up CyberMDX in February to safeguard internet of medical things devices and Cysiv in June to help OT and IoT customers analyze, detect and respond to threats using cloud-native data analytics.
Collibra lands at #4 on Best Workplaces in New York™ 2022
Collibra
JUNE 15, 2022
We are incredibly honored and excited to share that Great Place to Work and Fortune magazine have included Collibra as one of this year’s Best Workplaces in New York! This is our first time being named to this list, coming in at #4, and we are incredibly grateful to our employees for their contributions to our culture and work environment – leading to this recognition. .
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