yaracroft @venom@nanao.cybtex.fr

Pass the SALT Conference Slides #informatique

https://archives.pass-the-salt.org/Pass%20the%20SALT/2021/slides/

#Ransomware Gangs are Starting to Look Like Ocean's 11

https://ke-la.com/ransomware-gangs-are-starting-to-look-like-oceans-11

A collection of links related to #Linux #kernel #security and exploitation.

https://github.com/xairy/linux-kernel-exploitation

Nous ( Cerba ) tenons à vous informer que notre Laboratoire a été victime d'un vol de données à la suite d'une défaillance de l'un de nos prestataires, en charge de l'hébergement de l'une de nos bases de données. Cette base de données contenant des informations de #patients a en effet été momentanément exposée sur #Internet. Malgré l'absence d'exploitation de ces données à ce jour, nous vous recommandons néanmoins de faire preuve de vigilance face à tout démarchage inhabituel qui pourrait s'apparenter à une tentative d'escroquerie. #france #medical #databreach

https://www.lab-cerba.com/home/vous-informer/news/incident-de-securite-lab-cerba.html

Kaseya left customer portal vulnerable to 2015 flaw in its own #software - CVE-2015-2862 was issued in July 2015. Six years later, Kaseya's customer portal was still exposed to the data-leaking weakness #ransomware

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/kaseya-left-customer-portal-vulnerable-to-2015-flaw-in-its-own-software/

Understanding Russia's #Cyber Strategy - The Russian Federation's willingness to engage in offensive cyber operations has caused enormous harm, including massive #financial losses, interruptions to the operation of critical infrastructure, and disruptions of crucial software #supply chains.

https://www.fpri.org/article/2021/07/understanding-russias-cyber-strategy/

This was the recently patched SYSTEM Remote Code Execution (RCE) in #Windows Defender ! No big surprise, memory corruption in a complex unpacker on some old version of ASProtect from the 90s. « Security products » are plagued by problems like this 😣 ( Tavis Ormandy )

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2189

A recent report suggests that China trails the United States in cyberspace. But Chinese leaders are eying a long-term strategy, so Western governments would be wise not to underestimate Beijing. Comparisons of different states' capabilities are fraught with difficulty. #China is deploying its #cyber capabilities in pursuit of long-term strategic objectives in ways that make the effects hard to measure for comparative purposes.

https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/07/06/west-should-not-be-complacent-about-china-s-cyber-capabilities-pub-84884

For years YouTube's video-recommending algorithm has stood accused of fuelling a grab-bag of societal ills by feeding users an AI-amplified diet of hate speech, political extremism and/or conspiracy junk/disinformation for the profiteering motive of trying to keep billions of eyeballs stuck to its ad inventory. New research published today by Mozilla backs that notion up, suggesting #YouTube's ( #Google (Alphabet Inc.) ) artificial intelligence ( AI ) continues to puff up piles of bottom-feeding/low grade/divisive/disinforming content - stuff that tries to grab eyeballs by triggering people's sense of outrage, sewing division/polarization or spreading baseless/harmful disinformation - which in turn implies that YouTube's problem with recommending terrible stuff is indeed systemic ; a side-effect of the platform's rapacious appetite to harvest views to serve his #business advertising. In today's world, « Artificial Intelligence controls what the world is watching. » ( algotransparency.org )

https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/07/youtubes-recommender-ai-still-a-horrorshow-finds-major-crowdsourced-study/

A sales consultant, Hisham Chaudhary, has been found guilty of using #Bitcoin to fund the Islamic State (IS) group. Anti-terrorism police arrested Chaudhary in a dawn raid in November 2019. During the arrest, police found devices in his bedroom containing what were described as IS propaganda videos. The 28-year-old, of Chestnut Drive, Oadby, Leicestershire, was found guilty of 7 offences under the #Terrorism Act by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court on Tuesday.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-57737304