Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Let’s give a look at API vulnerabilities by reading the API Security Top 10 published by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). It’s no secret that cyber security has become a leading priority for most organizations — especially those in industries that handle sensitive customer information. And as these businesses work towards building robust security strategies, it’s vital that they account for various threat vectors and vulnerabilities.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As the open source social media network blows up due to Twitter's troubles, researchers caution about vulnerabilities within the application.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Consider what might transpire if malicious hackers began to intensively leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to discover and exploit software vulnerabilities systematically? Related: Bio digital twin can eradicate heart failure. Cyber-attacks would become much more dangerous and much harder to detect. Currently, human hackers often discover security holes by chance; AI could make their hacking tools faster and the success of their tactics and techniques much more systematic.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

How to Secure Access for your Seasonal Workers. divya. Mon, 11/21/2022 - 05:36. As the holiday season approaches, many retail, hospitality, logistics, and food manufacturing organizations hire seasonal workers to meet increasing demand. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 7% job rise in the retail industry. According to press headlines, Amazon is preparing for the holiday season with an additional 150,000 staff , while Walmart hired approximately 150,000 new employees and 20,000 supply chai

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The aftermath of a ransomware attack last month demonstrates just how bad an attack can get when the cybercriminals don’t get what they want.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Brian Krebs writes about how the Zeppelin ransomware encryption scheme was broken: The researchers said their break came when they understood that while Zeppelin used three different types of encryption keys to encrypt files, they could undo the whole scheme by factoring or computing just one of them: An ephemeral RSA-512 public key that is randomly generated on each machine it infects. “If we can recover the RSA-512 Public Key from the registry, we can crack it and get the 256-bit AES Key

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Every year during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, crooks take advantage of the bad habits of users with fraudulent schema. Researchers at Bitdefender Antispam Lab have analyzed during the last weeks the fraudulent activities associated with Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The experts noticed that between October 26 and November 6, the rate of unsolicited Black Friday emails peaked on Nov 9, when reached 26% of all Black Friday-related messages.

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Microsoft has observed a threat actor that’s been running a phishing campaign since August 2022. The threat actor, which Microsoft tracks as “DEV-0569,” is using phishing emails to distribute malicious installers for legitimate applications, including TeamViewer, Microsoft Teams, Adobe Flash Player, Zoom, and AnyDesk. The phishing campaign leads to the installation of ransomware and information-stealing malware.

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Using the simplest tactic of not including a single piece of content that can be considered malicious, these types of scams are making their way to inboxes every single time.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Ransomware Attack Locks Up Westmount Services and Takes Down Email System The nefarious LockBit 3.0 cybercriminal group is claiming responsibility for the ransomware attack that halted municipal services and shut down employee email accounts in Westmount, Quebec, giving the city a deadline of Dec. 4 to make an undisclosed ransom payment.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Endpoints are where all are the connectivity action is. Related: Ransomware bombardments. And securing endpoints has once more become mission critical. This was the focal point of presentations at Tanium’s Converge 2022 conference which I had the privilege to attend last week at the Fairmont Austin in the Texas capital. I had the chance to visit with Peter Constantine, Tanium’s Senior Vice President Product Management.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Researchers discovered that analytics data associated with iPhone include Directory Services Identifier (DSID) that could allow identifying users. Researchers at software company Mysk discovered that analytics data collected by iPhone include the Directory Services Identifier (DSID), which could allow identifying users. Apple collects both DSID and Apple ID, which means that it can use the former to identify the user and retrieve associated personal information, including full name, phone number

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) recently warned that attackers are increasingly using token theft to circumvent multi-factor authentication (MFA). “By compromising and replaying a token issued to an identity that has already completed multifactor authentication, the threat actor satisfies the validation of MFA and access is granted to organizational resources accordingly,” the team wrote in a blog post.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Victims Notified of Ransomware Attack Six Months After the Incident A cyberattack on a Canadian teachers’ union gave thieves access to sensitive data of more than 60,000 members The union is yet to disclose the exact number of affected individuals, but stated that both former and current members are impacted.

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

New data polled from analysts and members of the retail industry about their security focus is this holiday season reveals the kinds of attacks every organization should be preparing for.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Cisco Talos spotted multiple updated versions of LodaRAT that were deployed alongside other malware families, including RedLine and Neshta. Researchers from Cisco Talos have monitored the LodaRAT malware over the course of 2022 and recently discovered multiple updated versions that have been deployed alongside other malware families, including RedLine and Neshta.

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The ninth edition of The Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law Review provides a global overview of the legal and regulatory regimes governing data privacy and security, and covers areas such as data processors’ obligations, data subject rights, data transfers and localization, best practices for minimizing cyber risk, public and private enforcement, and an outlook for future developments.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

From Cryptojacking to Exchange Hacks to Scam Token Contracts, Innovation Abounds While the cybercrime story for 2022 has yet to be fully written, cryptocurrency theft will no doubt have a starring role. Buoyed by the collective pilfering of billions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency this year, what's to stop attackers from doubling down in 2023?

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Researchers at Trellix revealed that phishing email attacks targeting users in the Middle East doubled in October 2022 ahead of the World Cup in Qatar, as reported by The Record. The end game of these attacks include financial fraud, credential harvesting, data exfiltration, surveillance, and damage to a country or organization’s reputation. The rest of the world will soon follow.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Microsoft warns that a threat actor, tracked as DEV-0569, is using Google Ads to distribute the recently discovered Royal ransomware. Researchers from the Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence team warned that a threat actor, tracked as DEV-0569, is using Google Ads to distribute various payloads, including the recently discovered Royal ransomware.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Organisations that suffer security incidents are sometimes said to be victims of “cyber extortion”, but it’s often unclear what exactly that phrase means. Most of us understand what cyber attacks and online scams are, and many people are familiar with ransomware, which is a type of cyber attack in which people are blackmailed into handing over money.

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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.

Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Evolved Mustang Panda Malware Targets Government, Education, Other Sectors Globally A large-scale cyberespionage campaign by notorious China-based advanced persistent threat actor Mustang Panda is targeting government, academic and other sectors globally. Its main targets include Asia-Pacific organizations in Myanmar, Australia, the Philippines, Japan and Taiwan.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Are Retailers Shopping for a Cybersecurity Breach? divya. Wed, 11/23/2022 - 07:07. Have you ever walked into your favorite store or restaurant, and when you tried to finalize your purchase, you were told that they could not process any credit cards? Have you ever thought that this might be the result of a successful breach and not because of a point-of sale (POS) malfunctioning?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

A researcher published details and proof-of-concept (PoC) code for High-Severity macOS Sandbox escape vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-26696. Researcher Wojciech Regu?a (@_r3ggi) of SecuRing published technical details and proof-of-concept (PoC) code for a macOS sandbox escape vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-26696 (CVSS score of 7.8). In a wrap-up published by Regula, the researcher observed that the problem is caused by a strange behavior he observed in a sandboxed macOS app that may launc

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Consider what might transpire if malicious hackers began to intensively leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to discover and exploit software vulnerabilities systematically? Related: Cyber spying on the rise. Cyber-attacks would become much more dangerous and much harder to detect. Currently, human hackers often discover security holes by chance; AI could make their hacking tools faster and the success of their tactics and techniques much more systematic.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Successful account takeovers are one of the most common ways that organizations end up with attackers in their systems. But strong authentication can thwart even the most clever phishing campaigns, says Brett Winterford, regional chief security officer for APJ at Okta.

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Here is a 3-minute article that we suggest you copy/paste and send to all your users as part of your ongoing security culture campaign. "The holiday season is a time when people are especially vulnerable to scams. This is because they are busy and often have their guard down. Criminals take advantage of this by circulating fake e-gift cards, posing as charities, targeting specific demographics, and so on.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The gang behind Quantum Locker used a particular modus operandi to target large enterprises relying on cloud services in the NACE region. Executive Summary. Quantum Locker gang demonstrated capabilities to operate ransomware extortion even on cloud environments such as Microsoft Azure. Criminal operators of the Quantum gang demonstrated the ability to hunt and delete secondary backup copies stored in cloud buckets and blobs.

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