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Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2023 10:00:00 -0700

As Microsoft revealed tidbits of its post-mortem investigation into a Chinese attack against US government agencies via Microsoft, two details stand out: the company violated its own policy and did not store security keys within a Hardware Security Module (HSM) — and the keys were successfully used by attackers even though they had expired years earlier.

This is simply the latest example of Microsoft quietly cutting corners on cybersecurity and then only telling anyone when it gets caught.

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Kaspersky Security

August 7, 2023 admin

Scam websites offering jobs | Kaspersky official blog

Credit to Author: Olga Svistunova| Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:42:10 +0000

How and with what criminals lure people looking for a part-time job on the Internet, and what needs to be done in order not to become their victim.

Security Sophos

August 7, 2023 admin

SophosAI at DEF CON: Orchestrating large-scale scams using text, audio and image generative AI

Credit to Author: gallagherseanm| Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2023 11:00:45 +0000

AI Village talk highlights how generative can be used to automate the creation of fraud campaigns, generating hundreds of fraudulent sites.

Security TrendMicro

August 7, 2023 admin

TargetCompany Ransomware Abuses FUD Obfuscator Packers

Credit to Author: Don Ovid Ladores| Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this entry, we detail our analysis of how the TargetCompany ransomware abused an iteration of fully undetectable (FUD) obfuscator engine BatCloak to infect vulnerable systems.

Microsoft Security

August 6, 2023 admin

Cyber Signals: Sporting events and venues draw cyberthreats at increasing rates

Credit to Author: Vasu Jakkal| Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Today we released the fifth edition of Cyber Signals spotlighting threats to large sporting events, based on our learnings and telemetry from delivering cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure facilities during the State of Qatar’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup 2022™.

The post Cyber Signals: Sporting events and venues draw cyberthreats at increasing rates appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Microsoft Security

August 6, 2023 admin

Midnight Blizzard conducts targeted social engineering over Microsoft Teams

Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2023 19:00:00 +0000

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified highly targeted social engineering attacks using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Midnight Blizzard (previously tracked as NOBELIUM).

The post Midnight Blizzard conducts targeted social engineering over Microsoft Teams appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Security Wired

August 6, 2023 admin