CISOs Beware: SEC's SolarWinds Action Shows They're Scapegoating Us

In a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, CISOs must take proactive measures to safeguard their careers and mitigate risks associated with their roles.

https://www.darkreading.com/operations/c...goating-us

MGM and Caesars Attacks Highlight Social Engineering Risks

Relying on passwords to secure user accounts is a gamble that never pays off.

https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/mgm...ring-risks

Russian-speaking threat actor "farnetwork" linked to 5 ransomware gangs


The operator of the Nokoyawa ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), a threat actor known as 'farnetwork', built experience over the years by helping the JSWORM, Nefilim, Karma, and Nemty affiliate programs with malware development and operation management. [...]


https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/se...are-gangs/

WhatsApp now lets users hide their location during calls


WhatsApp is rolling out a new privacy feature that helps Android and iOS users hide their location during calls by relaying the connection through WhatsApp servers. [...]


https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/se...ing-calls/

ChatGPT down after major outage impacting OpenAI systems


OpenAI's AI-powered ChatGPT large language model-based chatbot is down because of a major ongoing outage that also took down the company's Application Programming Interface (API). [...]


https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/te...i-systems/

FBI: Ransomware gangs hack casinos via 3rd party gaming vendors


The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning that ransomware threat actors are targeting casino servers and use legitimate system management tools to increase their permissions on the network. [...]


https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/se...g-vendors/

Russian state-owned Sberbank hit by 1 million RPS DDoS attack


Russian financial organization Sberbank states in a press release that two weeks ago it faced the most powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in recent history. [...]


https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/se...os-attack/

Sumo Logic discloses security breach, advises API key resets


Security and data analytics company Sumo Logic disclosed a security breach after discovering that its AWS (Amazon Web Services) account was compromised last week. [...]


https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/se...ey-resets/

Microsoft drops SMB1 firewall rules in new Windows 11 build


Windows 11 will no longer add SMB1 Windows Defender Firewall rules when creating new SMB shares starting with today's Canary Channel Insider Preview Build 25992 build. [...]


https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/mi...-11-build/

Signal tests usernames that keep your phone number private

Signal is now testing public usernames that allow users to conceal the phone numbers linked to their accounts while communicating with others. [...]


https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/so...r-private/