Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2023

A Russian man identified by KrebsOnSecurity in January 2022 as a prolific and vocal member of several top ransomware groups was the subject of two indictments unsealed by the Justice Department today. U.S. prosecutors say Mikhail Pavolovich Matveev , a.k.a. “ Wazawaka ” and “ Boriselcin ” worked with three different ransomware gangs that extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from companies, schools, hospitals and government agencies.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 15, 2023

Introduction Purpose Components Attacks Discussion Summary Introduction This resource is a first thrust at a framework for thinking about how to attack AI systems. At the time of writing, GPT-4 has only been out for a couple of months, and ChatGPT for only 6 months. So things are very early. There has been, of course, much content on attacking pre-ChatGPT AI systems, namely how to attack machine learning implementations.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 15, 2023

Micro-Star International—aka MSI—had its UEFI signing key stolen last month. This raises the possibility that the leaked key could push out updates that would infect a computer’s most nether regions without triggering a warning. To make matters worse, Matrosov said, MSI doesn’t have an automated patching process the way Dell, HP, and many larger hardware makers do.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 17, 2023

Get technical details about how the cybercriminals are targeting this vulnerability, who is impacted, and how to detect and protect against this security threat. The post PaperCut vulnerability abused by several threat actors could impact 70,000 organizations appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Speaker: William Hord, Senior VP of Risk & Professional Services

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is critical for industry growth in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing risk landscape. When building your ERM program foundation, you need to answer questions like: Do we have robust board and management support? Do we understand and articulate our bank’s risk appetite and how that impacts our business units? How are we measuring and rating our risk impact, likelihood, and controls to mitigate our risk?

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The Hacker News

MAY 19, 2023

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of active exploitation of a medium-severity flaw affecting Samsung devices. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-21492 (CVSS score: 4.4), impacts select Samsung devices running Android versions 11, 12, and 13.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 19, 2023

Om Nom Nom Nom Nom: Privacy Sandbox inching towards reality. But concerns remain. The post Google Chrome 3rd Party Cookies Crumbling — Finally! appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 15, 2023

A new report from Proofpoint provides global insight into CISOs' challenges, expectations and priorities for 2023. The post Survey: Most CISOs feel their business is at risk for cyberattack appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Bleeping Computer

MAY 18, 2023

The popular KeePass password manager is vulnerable to extracting the master password from the application's memory, allowing attackers who compromise a device to retrieve the password even with the database is locked. [.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 19, 2023

By Aaron Sandeen, CEO and co-founder at Securin Since June 2021, Hive Ransomware has been dominating the ransomware scene. Their reach has affected more than 1,500 organizations resulting in Hive receiving ransom payments totaling $100 million. With all the buzz they have created, it’s no wonder they have earned the title of one of the most prolific ransomware groups.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 14, 2023

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at IT-S Now 2023 in Vienna, Austria, on June 2, 2023 at 8:30 AM CEST. The list is maintained on this page.

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Speaker: William Hord, Vice President of ERM Services

A well-defined change management process is critical to minimizing the impact that change has on your organization. Leveraging the data that your ERM program already contains is an effective way to help create and manage the overall change management process within your organization. Your ERM program generally assesses and maintains detailed information related to strategy, operations, and the remediation plans needed to mitigate the impact on the organization.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 18, 2023

Learn what the expanded cloud offerings mean for potentially smoothing out the line between DevOps and SecOps. The post What is IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh? appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Bleeping Computer

MAY 19, 2023

ASUS has apologized to its customers for a server-side security maintenance error that has caused a wide range of impacted router models to lose network connectivity. [.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 16, 2023

What do Duo and the Guardians of the Galaxy have in common? They’re superheroes who save their galaxies from unexpected threats. Tech smarts and teamwork are critical to superhero-level protection, no matter what threats you’re facing. How do you protect your galaxy against cyber attacks? In Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Groot is locked and loaded with bigger and more advanced skills, Mantis has opened up and embraced her powers to help protect her family, and Nebula has brand-

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CSO Magazine

MAY 17, 2023

As digital transactions with customers, employees, suppliers, and other stakeholders grow, digital trustworthiness is set to become one of the most important enterprise-wide initiatives with the biggest potential impact (both negative and positive), even though it often has the smallest budget allocation. “Organizations are focusing on security and privacy, but if your customers don’t trust you, they will go elsewhere,” says Mark Thomas president of Escoute Consulting, which specializes in compl

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Speaker: Ronald Eddings, Cybersecurity Expert and Podcaster

So, you’ve accomplished an organization-wide SaaS adoption. It started slow, and now just a few team members might be responsible for running Salesforce, Slack, and a few others applications that boost productivity, but it’s all finished. Or is it? Through all the benefits offered by SaaS applications, it’s still a necessity to onboard providers as quickly as possible.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 19, 2023

New BEC cyberattacks use phishing with a legitimate Dropbox link as a lure for malware and credentials theft. The post How business email compromise attacks emulate legitimate web services to lure clicks appeared first on TechRepublic.

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The Hacker News

MAY 15, 2023

Poorly managed Microsoft SQL (MS SQL) servers are the target of a new campaign that's designed to propagate a category of malware called CLR SqlShell that ultimately facilitates the deployment of cryptocurrency miners and ransomware.

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Bleeping Computer

MAY 16, 2023

A financially motivated cybergang tracked by Mandiant as 'UNC3944' is using phishing and SIM swapping attacks to hijack Microsoft Azure admin accounts and gain access to virtual machines. [.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 17, 2023

by John Spiegel, Director of Strategy, Axis Security Gartner just released the 2023 version of their “Magic Quadrant” for Secure Service Edge or SSE. Cheers are being heard from the companies who scored upper righthand and jeers being shouted for those companies who did not enjoy where they landed on Gartner’s matrix. Over the next few months, there will be a lot of noise coming from all the vendors.

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Speaker: Karl Camilleri, Cloud Services Product Manager at phoenixNAP

Did you know that 2021 was a record-breaking year for ransomware? The days of a “once in a while” attack against businesses and organizations are over. Cyberthreats have become a serious issue. With 495.1 million attacks, the threat marked a 148% increase compared to 2020 and was the most expensive year on record! As a result, data protection needs to be a concern for most banks, businesses, and information technology specialists.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 15, 2023

Abnormal Security is tracking cybercriminals from an unusual location for business email compromises who are using sophisticated spoofing to spur payments for fake acquisitions. The post Israel-based threat actors show growing sophistication of email attacks appeared first on TechRepublic.

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The Hacker News

MAY 18, 2023

Apple on Thursday rolled out security updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and the Safari web browser to address three new zero-day flaws that it said are being actively exploited in the wild. The three security shortcomings are listed below - CVE-2023-32409 - A WebKit flaw that could be exploited by a malicious actor to break out of the Web Content sandbox.

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Dark Reading

MAY 18, 2023

A newly discovered bug in the open source password manager, if exploited, lets attackers retrieve a target's master password — and proof-of-concept code is available.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has urged businesses and security leaders to make accessibility a cybersecurity priority to help make systems more secure and human errors/workarounds less likely. It can also aid in meeting legal requirements, delivering better operational outcomes, and attracting and retaining more diverse talent, according to the NCSC.

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Speaker: Dr. Karen Hardy, CEO and Chief Risk Officer of Strategic Leadership Advisors LLC

Communication is a core component of a resilient organization's risk management framework. However, risk communication involves more than just reporting information and populating dashboards, and we may be limiting our skillset. Storytelling is the ability to express ideas and convey messages to others, including stakeholders. When done effectively, it can help interpret complex risk environments for leaders and inform their decision-making.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 15, 2023

Artificial intelligence art service Midjourney and Shutterstock will identify their computer-generated images in Google Search. The post Google combats AI misinformation with Search labels, adds dark web security upgrades appeared first on TechRepublic.

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The Hacker News

MAY 19, 2023

Two malicious packages discovered in the npm package repository have been found to conceal an open source information stealer malware called TurkoRat. The packages – named nodejs-encrypt-agent and nodejs-cookie-proxy-agent – were collectively downloaded approximately 1,200 times and were available for more than two months before they were identified and taken down.

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Bleeping Computer

MAY 17, 2023

Cybercriminals are starting to target Microsoft's VSCode Marketplace, uploading three malicious Visual Studio extensions that Windows developers downloaded 46,600 times. [.

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Dark Reading

MAY 18, 2023

Cybercrime group that often uses smishing for initial access bypassed traditional OS targeting and evasion techniques to directly gain access to the cloud.

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Speaker: P. Andrew Sjogren, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Very Good Security, Matt Doka, Co-Founder and CTO of Fivestars, and Steve Andrews, President & CEO of the Western Bankers Association 

PCI compliance can feel challenging and sometimes the result feels like you are optimizing more for security and compliance than you are for business outcomes. The key is to take the right strategy to PCI compliance that gets you both. In this webinar, we have a great set of panelists who will take you through how Zero Data strategies can be used as part of a well-rounded compliance and security approach, and get you to market much sooner by also allowing for payment optimization.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 16, 2023

Enterprise VPNs are critical for connecting remote workers to company resources via reliable and secure links to foster communication and productivity. Read about six viable choices for businesses. The post The top 6 enterprise VPN solutions to use in 2023 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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The Hacker News

MAY 18, 2023

Malicious Google Search ads for generative AI services like OpenAI ChatGPT and Midjourney are being used to direct users to sketchy websites as part of a BATLOADER campaign designed to deliver RedLine Stealer malware. "Both AI services are extremely popular but lack first-party standalone apps (i.e.

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Bleeping Computer

MAY 18, 2023

Hackers are now actively probing for vulnerable Essential Addons for Elementor plugin versions on thousands of WordPress websites in massive Internet scans, attempting to exploit a critical account password reset flaw disclosed earlier in the month. [.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 17, 2023

By Aaron Sandeen, CEO and co-founder at Securin In 2023, you can divide organizations into two categories: those who have been hit by a ransomware attack and those who will be soon. Ransomware is ubiquitous, inescapable, and—despite widespread efforts to combat it—ever-escalating. It has caused the death of patients in critical condition , disrupted the Colonial Pipeline supply on the East Coast , affected daily operations of entities as diverse as the San Francisco 49ers , the Costa Rican Gover

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Speaker: Mike Cramer, Director of HIPAA & Data Security at The Word & Brown Companies

The COVID-19 pandemic forced many people into working remotely, opening the floodgates for a host of digital compliance issues. Now that companies are slowly allowing employees to return to work at the office, it's time to re-evaluate your company’s posture towards privacy and security. This is especially vital if your workers were (and still are!) using company equipment from home, or are still working remotely.

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