Incident Response
China Cyberwar Coming? Versa’s Vice: Volt Typhoon’s Target
Richi Jennings | | CenturyLink, china, china espionage, China-linked Hackers, China-nexus cyber attacks, China-nexus cyber espionage, CVE-2024-39717, Lumen, Lumen Technologies, Peoples Republic of China, SB Blogwatch, Versa Director, Versa Neworks, VersaMem, Volt Typhoon
Xi whiz: Versa Networks criticized for swerving the blame ...
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‘Terrorgram’ Telegram Terrorists Trash Transformers — Grid in Peril
Richi Jennings | | Anti-Terrorism, Child Abuse, child exploitation, Child Online Safety, child porn, child pornography, Child protection, Child Safety, child sexual exploitation, childpornography, Counter-Terrorism, counterterrorism, CSAM, Data encryption, E2EE, encryption, end-to-end encryption, extremism, france, ICS, ICS/SCADA systems, Pavel Durov, Privacy, Russia, SB Blogwatch, Telegram, Telegram app, Terrorgram, Terrorism, terrorist, terrorist attack, Terrorist attacks
Should’ve listened to Edison: After the arrest of Pavel Durov—the Telegram CEO—comes news of domestic extremists using the chat app to organize ...
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Pig Butchering at Heart of Bank Failure — CEO Gets 24 Years in Jail
Richi Jennings | | #PigButchering, Crypto, crypto cons, crypto crime, crypto currency, cryptocurrency, Heartland Tri-State Bank, online romance scam, pig butchering, Pig Butchering Scams, romance, romance fraud, romance scam, romance scammers, romance scams, SB Blogwatch, Shan Hanes
Oink, oink, FAIL—you’re in jail: Kansas bank chief exec Shan Hanes stole money from investors, a church and others to buy cryptocurrency to feed a scam ...
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Patch Tuesday not Done ’til LINUX Won’t Run?
Richi Jennings | | CVE-2022-2601, Dual boot, GRUB2 Bootloader Secure Boot Bypass, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2024, Microsoft Windows, Patch Tuesday, SB Blogwatch, SBAT, secure boot, Secure Boot Advanced Targeting, Windows
Redmond reboot redux: “Something has gone seriously wrong.” You can say that again, Microsoft ...
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Extortion Group Exploits Cloud Misconfigurations, Targets 110,000 Domains
An unknown threat group leveraged publicly exposed environment variables in organizations' AWS accounts to exfiltrate sensitive data and demand ransoms in a wide-ranging extortion campaign that targeted 110,000 domains ...
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Survey: Senior Executives Being Held More Accountable for Cybersecurity
A global survey of 1,850 IT and cybersecurity decision-makers finds more than half (51%) reporting that directors or executives have faced fines, jail time, loss of position, or loss of employment following ...
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Don’t Mess With Texas Privacy: AG Sues GM for $18 BILLION
KP♡TX PII: “General Motors has engaged in egregious business practices that violated Texans’ privacy … in unthinkable ways,” rants state attorney general Ken Paxton (pictured) ...
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August Patch Pileup: Microsoft’s Zero-Day Doozy Dump
Richi Jennings | | Adobe patch, august patch tuesday, CVE-2024-21302, CVE-2024-38106, CVE-2024-38107, CVE-2024-38178, CVE-2024-38189, CVE-2024-38193, CVE-2024-38199, CVE-2024-38200, CVE-2024-38202, CVE-2024-38213, Microsoft patch tuesday, Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2024, Patch Tuesday, SB Blogwatch
See These CVEs: Patch Tuesday—ten zero-days, seven Critical vulns, zero time to waste ...
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WTH? DPRK WFH Ransomware Redux: 3rd Person Charged
Richi Jennings | | Andrew M., DPRK, Korea, Korean military, Korean ransomware, Matthew Isaac Knoot, North Korea, North Korean Hacking, North Korean Threat Actors, northkorea, Noth Korea, SB Blogwatch
North Korean army of remote IT workers enabled by Matthew Isaac Knoot, alleges DoJ ...
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HPE Infuses AI Into Network Detection and Response Platform
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) this week at the Black Hat USA 2024 conference extended its network detection and response (NDR) capabilities that make use of artificial intelligence (AI) models to enable behavioral ...
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