Tux Machines

Security Leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 23, 2023

Arca Noae Package Manager version 1.1.0.2 has been released

Large Language Model on Linux and More Microsoft Layoffs

↺ ABUS

Another Malicious HTA File Analysis - Part 3, (Sun, May 21st)

↺ Another Malicious HTA File Analysis - Part 3, (Sun, May 21st)

Hong Kong doxxing site targeting journalists, activists still online almost 2 years after authorities alerted

↺ Hong Kong doxxing site targeting journalists, activists still online almost 2 years after authorities alerted

> A doxxing website targeting thousands of journalists and pro-democracy activists remains online almost two years after HKFP alerted the authorities to its existence with media enquires, and over 18 months since Hong Kong enacted an anti-doxxing law.

Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]

↺ Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]

> Security updates have been issued by Debian (cups-filters, imagemagick, libwebp, sqlite, and texlive-bin), Fedora (chromium and vim), Gentoo (librecad, mediawiki, modsecurity-crs, snakeyaml, and tinyproxy), Mageia (apache-mod_security, cmark, dmidecode, freetype2, glib2.0, libssh, patchelf, python-sqlparse, sniproxy, suricata, and webkit2), Oracle (apr-util and firefox), Red Hat (git), SUSE (containerd, openvswitch, python-Flask, runc, terraform-provider-aws, and terraform-provider-null), and Ubuntu (tar).

CommonSpirit expects to recover most of its $160M cyberattack costs

↺ CommonSpirit expects to recover most of its $160M cyberattack costs

> Chicago-based CommonSpirit, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the nation, upped its current estimate of losses stemming from a cyberattack in October to $160 million when it released first-quarter results May 15.

> The original cost amount was estimated at $150 million. The better news is that the 143-hospital system is confident of recovering much of the revised figure.

District of Arizona | Hacker Sentenced to 51 Months in Prison for Stealing Customer Credit Card Numbers | United States Department of Justice

↺ District of Arizona | Hacker Sentenced to 51 Months in Prison for Stealing Customer Credit Card Numbers | United States Department of Justice

> Chirag Patel, 38, most recently of Norfolk, Virginia, was sentenced on May 8, 2023, by United States District Judge G. Murray Snow to 51 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. He also was ordered to pay $87,522.25 in restitution. Patel pleaded guilty to Computer Fraud.

Following Lockbit Ransomware [WINDOWS] Hacking, BSI Fires Director of IT and Risk Management

↺ Following Lockbit Ransomware [WINDOWS] Hacking, BSI Fires Director of IT and Risk Management

> PT Bank Syariah Indonesia Tbk or BSI at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGMS) in Jakarta, Monday (22/5/2023) decided to appoint a new Director of Information Technology (IT) and Director of Risk Management, namely Saladin D. Effendi and Grandhis Helmi H. .

> Previously, the Director of Information Technology (IT) was held by Achmad Syafii and the Director of Risk Management was held by Tiwul Widyastuti, both of whom were honorably dismissed at the AGMS. Both were removed after BSI was found to be a victim of the Lockbit ransomware attack last week.

> Saladin D. Effendi previously served as Chief Information and Security Officer at PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk, and Grandhis Helmi H. previously served as Group Head Commercial Risk 1 at PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk.

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