Little fires everywhere for March Patch Tuesday

A threat actor with ties to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (aka North Korea) has been observed leveraging the EtherHiding technique to distribute malware and enable cryptocurrency theft, marking the first time a state-sponsored hacking group has embraced the method. The activity has been attributed by Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) to a threat…

The European General Court on Wednesday fined the European Commission, the primary executive arm of the European Union responsible for proposing and enforcing laws for member states, for violating the bloc’s own data privacy regulations. The development marks the first time the Commission has been held liable for infringing stringent data protection laws in the…

While passwords remain the first line of defense for protecting user accounts against unauthorized access, the methods for creating strong passwords and protecting them are continually evolving. For example, NIST password recommendations are now prioritizing password length over complexity. Hashing, however, remains a non-negotiable. Even long secure passphrases should be hashed to prevent them

Iain Thomson reports: A cyber-crime ring calling itself Arkana has made a cringe music video to boast of an alleged theft of subscriber account data from Colorado-based cableco WideOpenWest (literally, WOW!) The video features gloomy music plus narration and text in Russian that claims – which screenshots of what looks like compromised internal WOW! systems –…

Here’s today’s example of how an entity may claim that they had no reason to believe patient data had been compromised, only to find that it had been. In February, Whitman Hospital & Medical Clinics (“WHMC”) in California discovered they had been the victim of a cyberattack that occurred between December 26 and February 28….

Ivanti confirms zero-day exploitation of a remotely exploitable code execution flaw in its Connect Security product line. The post Ivanti Warns of New Zero-Day Attacks Hitting Connect Secure Product appeared first on SecurityWeek.