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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Lohrman on Security

MAY 14, 2023

Depending on who you talk with or what stories you read, Open AI and ChatGPT may be the greatest things in the world — or the beginning of the end for humanity.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2023

In an increasingly interconnected world, the evolution of the automotive industry presents an exciting yet daunting prospect. Related: Privacy rules for vehicles As vehicles continue to offer modern features such as app-to-car connectivity, remote control access, and driver assistance software, a huge risk lurks in the shadows. The physical safety of things like airbags, rearview mirrors, and brakes is well accounted for; yet cybersecurity auto safety concerns are rising to the fore.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 13, 2023

A late one this week as I cover from the non-stop conferencing that was the Azure user group in Perth, followed by the Cyber West keynote, then the social drinks that night, the flight back home straight into the AusCERT gala dinner, the panel on data governance that morning then wrapping up with the speed debate Friday arvo. I think that's all.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 16, 2023

Attack surface expansion translates into innumerable wide-open vectors of potential unauthorized access into company networks. Related: The role of legacy security tools Yet the heaviest volume of routine, daily cyber attacks continue to target a very familiar vector: web and mobile apps. At RSA Conference 2023 , I had the chance to meet with Paul Nicholson , senior director of product marketing and analyst relations at A10 Networks.

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Anton on Security

MAY 15, 2023

Great blog posts are sometimes hard to find (especially on Medium ), so I decided to do a periodic list blog with my favorite posts of the past quarter or so. Here is the next one. The posts below are ranked by lifetime views. This covers both Anton on Security and my posts from Google Cloud blog , and our Cloud Security Podcast too ( subscribe ). Top 5 most popular posts of all times (these ended up being the same as last quarter, and the quarter before) : “Security Correlation Then and Now: A

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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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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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 18, 2023

Your go-to mobile apps aren’t nearly has hackproof as you might like to believe. Related: Fallout of T-Mobile hack Hackers of modest skill routinely bypass legacy security measures, even two-factor authentication, with techniques such as overlay attacks. And hard data shows instances of such breaches on the rise. I had an evocative conversation about this at RSA Conference 2023 with Asaf Ashkenazi , CEO of Verimatrix , a cybersecurity company headquartered in southern France.

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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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Schneier on Security

MAY 19, 2023

Researchers are worried about Google’s.zip and.mov domains, because they are confusing. Mistaking a URL for a filename could be a security vulnerability.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2023

Could cybersecurity someday soon be implemented as a business enabler, instead of continuing to be viewed as an onerous business expense? Related: Security sea-change wrought by ‘CMMC’ This would fit nicely with the ‘ stronger together ’ theme heralded at RSA Conference 2023. WithSecure is one cybersecurity vendor that is certainly on this path.

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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 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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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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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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SecureList

MAY 16, 2023

Kaspersky offers various services to organizations that have been targeted by cyberattackers, such as incident response, digital forensics, and malware analysis. In our annual incident response report, we share information about the attacks that we investigated during the reporting period. Data provided in this report comes from our daily interactions with organizations seeking assistance with full-blown incident response or complementary expert services for their internal incident response team

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The Hacker News

MAY 18, 2023

The rising geopolitical tensions between China and Taiwan in recent months have sparked a noticeable uptick in cyber attacks on the East Asian island country.

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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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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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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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Trend Micro

MAY 14, 2023

Water Orthrus has been active recently with two new campaigns. CopperStealth uses a rootkit to install malware on infected systems, while CopperPhish steals credit card information. This blog will provide the structure of the campaign and how they work.

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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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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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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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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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