CyberSecurity Updates

05 Jun

SAFE Security claims to predict data breaches with new generative AI offering

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

AI-based cyber risk management SaaS vendor SAFE Security has announced the release Cyber Risk Cloud of Cloud – a new offering it claims uses generative AI to help businesses predict and prevent cyber breaches. It does so by answering questions about a customer’s cybersecurity posture and generating likelihoods for different risk scenarios. These include the likelihood of a business suffering a ransomware attack in the next 12 months and the dollar impact of an attack,…

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05 Jun

CISOs, IT lack confidence in executives’ cyber-defense knowledge

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

IT security teams lack confidence in their executives’ ability to prevent attacks on their personal hardware, systems, and network. This is according to a study sponsored by BlackCloak, a provider of digital privacy protection for high-profile executives, Ponemon Institute surveyed 553 US IT and IT security practitioners. Asked to rate from 1 to 10 how confident they were in CEOs and executives’ abilities to know how to recognize a phishing email, only 28% of respondents…

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03 Jun

Insider Q&A: Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity In Military Tech

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Josh Lospinoso’s first cybersecurity startup was acquired in 2017 by Raytheon/Forcepoint.. His second, Shift5, works with the U.S. military, rail operators and airlines including JetBlue. A 2009 West Point grad and Rhodes Scholar, the 36-year-old former Army captain spent more than a decade authoring hacking tools for the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command. Lospinoso recently told a Senate Armed Services subcommittee how artificial intelligence can help protect military operations. The CEO/programmer discussed the subject with…

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03 Jun

API security in the spotlight – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

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Given the reliance of today’s digital world on APIs and the fact that attacks targeting them continue to rise sharply, API security cannot be an afterthought. Given the increasing reliance of today’s digital world on APIs and the fact that cyberattacks targeting them continue to rise sharply, API security cannot be an afterthought. Here is how a poorly protected application programming interface creates security risks, what the main API security risks are, and what organizations…

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03 Jun

In Other News: Government Use of Spyware, New Industrial Security Tools, Japan Router Hack 

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SecurityWeek is publishing a weekly cybersecurity roundup that provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar. We provide a valuable summary of stories that may not warrant an entire article, but are nonetheless crucial for a comprehensive understanding of the cybersecurity landscape. Each week, we will curate and present a collection of noteworthy developments, ranging from the latest vulnerability discoveries and emerging attack techniques to significant policy changes and…

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02 Jun

Russia points finger at US for iPhone exploit campaign that also hit Kaspersky Lab

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

The Russian federal security agency, the FSB, has put out a security alert claiming that US intelligence services are behind an attack campaign that exploits vulnerabilities in iOS and compromised thousands of iPhones devices in Russia, including those of foreign diplomats. In a separate report, Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab said that several dozen of its senior employees and upper management were targeted as part of the operation, although unlike the FSB, the company did…

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02 Jun

S3 Ep137: 16th century crypto skullduggery

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by Paul Ducklin IT’S HARDER THAN YOU THINK No audio player below? Listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. You can listen to us on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and anywhere that good podcasts are found. Or just drop the URL of our RSS feed into your favourite podcatcher. READ THE TRANSCRIPT DOUG.  Password manager cracks, login bugs, and Queen Elizabeth I versus…

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02 Jun

Researchers claim Windows “backdoor” affects hundreds of Gigabyte motherboards

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by Paul Ducklin Researchers at firmware and supply-chain security company Eclypsium claim to have found what they have rather dramatically dubbed a “backdoor” in hundreds of motherboard models from well-known hardware maker Gigabyte. In fact, Eclypsium’s headline refers to it not merely as a backdoor, but all in uppper case as a BACKDOOR. The good news is that this seems to be a legitimate feature that has been badly implemented, so it’s not a backdoor…

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02 Jun

Attackers use Python compiled bytecode to evade detection

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Attackers who are targeting open-source package repositories like PyPI (Python Package Index) have devised a new technique for hiding their malicious code from security scanners, manual reviews, and other forms of security analysis. In one incident, researchers have found malware code hidden inside a Python bytecode (PYC) file that can be directly executed as opposed to source code files that get interpreted by the Python runtime. “It may be the first supply chain attack to…

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02 Jun

Information of 2.5M People Stolen in Ransomware Attack at Massachusetts Health Insurer

Data Breaches, Information, News

Point32Health, the second-largest health insurer in Massachusetts, is in the process of informing more than 2.5 million individuals that their personal and protected health information was stolen in a recent ransomware attack. Identified on April 17 and initially disclosed on April 20, the attack impacted systems related to Point32Health’s Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and resulted in the exfiltration of data pertaining to both current and former health plan subscribers and dependents. Between March 28 and…

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