August 2024

Russian-Linked Hackers Target Eastern European NGOs and Media 2024-08-15 at 16:01 By Russian and Belarusian non-profit organizations, Russian independent media, and international non-governmental organizations active in Eastern Europe have become the target of two separate spear-phishing campaigns orchestrated by threat actors whose interests align with that of the Russian government. While one of the campaigns […]

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Russian man who sold logins to nearly 3,000 accounts gets 40 months in jail 2024-08-15 at 15:31 By Connor Jones He’ll also have to pay back $1.2 million from fraudulent transactions he facilitated A Russian national is taking a trip to prison in the US after being found guilty of peddling stolen credentials on a

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Lessons from the Snowflake breach: SaaS security needs collaboration 2024-08-15 at 15:04 By Companies should align their SaaS security strategies with their service providers so that everyone is clear on what role they should play in mitigating threats. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to

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Google is a monopoly. The fix isn’t obvious 2024-08-15 at 14:31 By Thomas Claburn A business breakup may be coming – but what comes after may not be better Comment  After more than 15 years of insisting that “competition is only a click away,” Google’s antitrust mantra is no longer keeping the regulators at bay.…

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Identity Threat Detection and Response Solution Guide 2024-08-15 at 14:31 By The Emergence of Identity Threat Detection and Response Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) has emerged as a critical component to effectively detect and respond to identity-based attacks. Threat actors have shown their ability to compromise the identity infrastructure and move laterally into IaaS,

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RansomHub Group Deploys New EDR-Killing Tool in Latest Cyber Attacks 2024-08-15 at 14:31 By A cybercrime group with links to the RansomHub ransomware has been observed using a new tool designed to terminate endpoint detection and response (EDR) software on compromised hosts, joining the likes of other similar programs like AuKill (aka AvNeutralizer) and Terminator.

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Mad Liberator extortion crew emerges on the cyber-crook scene 2024-08-15 at 13:31 By Jessica Lyons Anydesk is its access tool of choice A new extortion gang called Mad Liberator uses social engineering and the remote-access tool Anydesk to steal organizations’ data and then demand a ransom payment, according to Sophos X-Ops.… This article is an

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Twitter must pay over half a million to unfairly dismissed Irish exec 2024-08-15 at 12:31 By Dan Robinson Remember the ‘go hardcore or go home’ email? Turns out: not super compatible with Irish employment law Twitter has been ordered to pay €550,000 ($607,000) compensation for unfair dismissal to a former senior executive in Ireland, said

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Cisco slashes thousands of staff, 7% of entire workforce, pivots into AI 2024-08-15 at 11:32 By Laura Dobberstein Follows the crowd in search for revenue Networking titan Cisco has confirmed in a filing with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) that it is eliminating 7 percent of its global workforce as it embarks upon a restructuring

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AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn’t know – or care 2024-08-15 at 10:31 By Mark Pesce Everyone knows automation will happen, which is why everyone needs proof of human involvement Column  Earlier this year I got fired and replaced by a robot. And the managers who made the decision didn’t

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GitHub Vulnerability ‘ArtiPACKED’ Exposes Repositories to Potential Takeover 2024-08-15 at 10:31 By A newly discovered attack vector in GitHub Actions artifacts dubbed ArtiPACKED could be exploited to take over repositories and gain access to organizations’ cloud environments. “A combination of misconfigurations and security flaws can make artifacts leak tokens, both of third party cloud services

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New Cyber Threat Targets Azerbaijan and Israel Diplomats, Stealing Sensitive Data 2024-08-15 at 10:31 By A previously unknown threat actor has been attributed to a spate of attacks targeting Azerbaijan and Israel with an aim to steal sensitive data. The attack campaign, detected by NSFOCUS on July 1, 2024, leveraged spear-phishing emails to single out

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Over 40 million Kakao Pay users’ data somehow ended up with Alipay 2024-08-15 at 09:48 By Laura Dobberstein Payment arm of Korean messaging app denies any illegal activity Kakao Pay, a subsidiary of Korea’s WhatsApp analog Kakao, handed over data from more than 40 million users to the Singaporean arm of Chinese payment platform Alipay,

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