It took two brothers who went to MIT months to plan how they were going to steal, launder and hide millions of dollars in cryptocurrency -- and only 12 seconds to actually pull off the heist.
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WTH? DPRK IT WFH: Justice Department says N. Korean hackers are getting remote IT jobs, posing as Americans.
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Source: securityboulevard.com β Author: Nathan Eddy Ransomware claims surged by 64% year-over-year, particularly among mid-market and emerging businesses. There was a sharp rise in βindirectβ ransomware incidents, which grew by more than 415% compared to 2022. These were among the key findings from At-Bayβs investigation into the anatomy of ransomware attacks in the U.S. in [β¦]
La entrada Ransomware Attacks Evolve as Average Ransom Demand Tops $1.26 Million β Source: securityboulevard.com se publicΓ³ primero en CISO2CISO.COM & CYBER SECURITY GROUP.
Slack reveals it has been training AI/ML models on customer data, including messages, files and usage information. It's opt-in by default.
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Overall ransomware frequency grew by 64% in 2023, with increases in both direct and indirect ransomware. Victims paid $282,000 in ransom on average, a 77% drop in price, and half the companies avoided paying a ransom completely.
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The Black Basta group abuses remote connection tool Quick Assist in vishing attacks leading to ransomware deployment.
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Hackers can find templates for DocuSign and other companies for their phishing campaigns on dark web marketplaces for as little as $10.
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VFCFinder analyzes commit histories to pinpoint the most likely commits associated with vulnerability fixes.
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Source: securityboulevard.com β Author: Jeffrey Burt The operators behind the Ebury server-side malware botnet have been doing business since at least 2009 and, according to the threat researchers who have been tracking it for the last decade, are stronger and more active than ever. The malware has compromised at least 400,000 Linux servers over the [β¦]
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Palo Alto Networks is acquiring the QRadar SaaS offerings from IBM, and then will migrate users to its Cortex XSIAM SOC delivered as a cloud service.
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Palo Alto Networks and IBM announced a significant partnership to jointly provide cybersecurity solutions.
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Source: news.sophos.com β Author: Angela Gunn The deluge of patches in April dried up substantially in May, as Microsoft on Tuesday released 59 patches touching 11 product families. Windows as usual takes the lionβs share of patches with 48, with the rest spread among .NET, 365 Apps for Enterprise, Azure, Bing Search for iOS, Dynamics [β¦]
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The operators behind the Ebury server-side malware botnet have been doing business since at least 2009 and, according to the threat researchers who have been tracking it for the last decade, are stronger and more active than ever. The malware has compromised at least 400,000 Linux servers over the past 15 years, with about 100,000..
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Phish Ahoy! Hacker took advantage of Dellβs lack of anti-scraping defense.
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Intel has published 41 new May 2024 Patch Tuesday advisories covering a total of more than 90 vulnerabilities.Β
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Source: news.sophos.com β Author: Sally Adam Click above to read this as a PDF instead In the early years of ransomware, many (if not, most) victims were reluctant to admit publicly that they had been hit for fear of exacerbating the business impact of the attack. Concerns about negative press and customer attrition led many [β¦]
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Source: news.sophos.com β Author: Sally Adam PRODUCTS & SERVICES I am delighted to announce that the Sophos Incident Response service has been awarded U.K.βs National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Cyber Incident Response (CIR) Level 2 status by CREST. This assurance confirms that amid the sophisticated cybersecurity threat landscape, Sophos has the experience and capabilities to [β¦]
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Patch Tuesday: Microsoft documents 60 security flaws in multiple software products and flags an actively exploited Windows zero-day for urgent attention.
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The Biden Administration is moving to cybersecurity standards for hospitals, but the AHA is pushing back, saying voluntary models are enough.
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New account passwords, often used during onboarding, are vulnerable to sophisticated attacks from malicious actors.
Good idea to check: Whatβs your company using?
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 14th, 2024 -β―DigiGlass by Redington, Managed Security Services Distributor (MSSD), and Sectrio, a global leader in OT/ICS and IoT cybersecurity solutions, cyber threat intelligence, and managed security services today inaugurated the first Industrial Control System/Operational Technology Security Operations Center (SOC) with a device testing lab in Dubai. View All Solutions [β¦]
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Zscaler has completed its investigation into the recent hacking claims and found that only an isolated test environment was compromised.
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It was probably inevitable. Threat researchers detected bad actors using stolen credentials to target LLMs, with the eventual goal of selling the access to other hackers.
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ΠΡΠ΄Π΅Ρ! Russian ransomware rascals riled a Roman Catholic healthcare organization.
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Source: securityboulevard.com β Author: Nathan Eddy Chief information security officers (CISOs) face mounting pressure as cyberattacks surge and complexities surrounding the implementation of GenAI and AI technologies emerge. The vast majority β 92% β of the 500 CISOs surveyed by Trellix admitted they are questioning the trajectory of their CISO roles as they grapple with [β¦]
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Weakening liberal democracies and weakening the NATO alliance are conjoined in the hybrid war that Russia is conducting against Ukraine.
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Modern CISOs have a new task cut out for them: determining how to navigate AI as both challenge and opportunity.
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The Chinese hacking contest Matrix Cup is offering big rewards for exploits targeting OSs, smartphones, enterprise software, browsers, and security products.
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Source: securityboulevard.com β Author: Richi Jennings Dark web sale of leaked data exposes Dell users to phishing phraud. Dell customer data from the past six or more years has been stolen. It looks like scrotes unknown broke into the company support portal and sold scads of personal information to the highest bidder. Again? In todayβs [β¦]
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Source: securityboulevard.com β Author: Nathan Eddy An advanced persistent threat (APT) group backed by Iran has been stoking divisions within Israeli society for the past three years. It has been using generative AI deepfake tools and social media accounts to craft disinformation campaigns. According to research from Recorded Futureβs Insikt Group, the group, known as [β¦]
La entrada Emerald Divide Uses GenAI to Exploit Social, Political Divisions in Israel Using Disinformation β Source: securityboulevard.com se publicΓ³ primero en CISO2CISO.COM & CYBER SECURITY GROUP.
Source: securityboulevard.com β Author: Jeffrey Burt Dell is sending emails to as many as 49 million people about a data breach that exposed their names, physical addresses, and product order information. According to the brief message, bad actors breached a Dell portal that contains a database βwith limited types of customer information related to purchases [β¦]
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Source: www.cyberdefensemagazine.com β Author: Stevin By Stan Vitek, Resident Geopolitical Analyst, Cyfirma Introduction As Israelβs military campaign in Gaza continues, the United States as a political sponsor of Israel is contending with regional provocations by several members of the Iranian-aligned βaxis of resistance.β These are inevitably gonna involve US forces, Israel and their allies. A [β¦]
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Bad actors are always ready to exploit political strife to their own ends. Right now, theyβre doing so with the conflict in the Middle East. A holistic defense against influence networks requires collaboration between government, technology companies and security research organizations.
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The tech giant says the information stolen doesn't represent a significant risk to users, but cybersecurity experts disagree.
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DUDE! Youβre Getting Phished.
Dell customer data from the past six (or more?) years was stolen. It looks like someone sold scads of personal information to the highest bidder.
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Source: securityboulevard.com β Author: Nathan Eddy Houston, we may have a problem. NASAβs cybersecurity framework for spacecraft development is inconsistent and must be improved, according to a 34-page review by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO report highlighted the need for mandatory cybersecurity updates throughout the space agencyβs $83 billion space development project [β¦]
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Source: securityboulevard.com β Author: Jeffrey Burt A group of bad actors β likely from China β is running a global cybercrime-as-a-service operation. It oversees a massive network of fake shopping websites that has conned more than 850,000 people in the United States and Europe into purchasing items, over the past three years, and the organization [β¦]
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A Chrome 124 update patches the second Chrome zero-day that has been found to be exploited in malicious attacks in 2024.
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A GAO review of NASA projects found that, while some cybersecurity challenges have been addressed, many security policies and standards remain optional.
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Chinese crooks are running a global network of more than 75,000 fake online shops to steal credit card data and process fraudulent payments.
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Stagnating security budgets and mounting job pressures are weighing on CISOs, a quarter of whom expressed discontent with their salary and overall compensation.
Show me the money: The average total compensation for tech CISOs stands at $710,000.
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Zscaler says its customer, production and corporate environments are not impacted after a notorious hacker offers to sell access.
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In the ever-evolving world of ransomware, itβs getting easier for threat groups to launch attacks β as evidence by the growing number of incidents β but more difficult to make a profit. Organizationsβ cyber-defenses are getting more resilient, decryptors that enable victims to regain control of their data, and law enforcement crackdowns on high-profile cybercrime..
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Least privilege. Itβs like a love-hate relationship. Everyone knows itβs a best practice, but no one is achieving it at scale.Β Why? Because itβs hard to do. The market is constantly trying to sell you least privilege, but no solution is making it easier, attainable, or sustainable. TL;DR: Weβre going to tell you about a [β¦]
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PAFACA SueTok: U.S. Courts βlikelyβ to rule whether new law is constitutionalβor even practical.
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The new Google Threat Intelligence cloud service draws from Mandiant, VirusTotal, and its own insights and combines them with generative AI.
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Google is encouraging the adoption of multi-factor authentication to protect against phishing and other cyberattacks. It hopes 2-Step Verification (2SV) can help.
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Charges and sanctions announced against Dimitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, the alleged developer and operator of LockBit ransomware.
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Hundreds of companies are showcasing their products and services this week at the 2024 edition of the RSA Conference in San Francisco.
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