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NY BUSINESS COUNCIL DISCLOSES DATA BREACH AFFECTING 47K PEOPLE

The Business Council of New York State (BCNYS), the largest employer association in the state, revealed that attackers stole personal, financial, and health data of over 47,000 people in a February breach. The data included full names, SSNs, birth dates, IDs, financial info, payment card details, and e-signatures. BCNYS said it didn't detect the breach until August 4, but cut off access immediately.

MALWARE ANALYSIS ON AWS: SETTING UP A SECURE ENVIRONMENT

Malware analysis environments have complex requirements as they must allow analysts to effectively analyze potentially malicious code while it is executing in the environment. This post proposes a process in which a security analyst gains access to an EC2 instance with no outbound connectivity via AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. The analyst then connects to malware samples through a gateway endpoint for S3 to download the malware and detonate it, and then they can use services such as CloudTrail and GuardDuty to monitor the behavior. The post provides a detailed setup checklist that covers policy, account setup, VPC design, instance configuration, storage, monitoring, IAM, and lifecycle considerations.

NOODLOPHILE STEALER EVOLVES: TARGETED COPYRIGHT PHISHING HITS ENTERPRISES WITH SOCIAL MEDIA FOOTPRINTS

The Noodlophile Stealer malware has evolved. It is now conducting targeted phishing campaigns impersonating copyright claims, mainly against organizations with large social media presences. The attackers steal browser and login data, adapting tactics for better success, and concentrate on enterprises with significant Facebook activity, highlighting the need for stronger cybersecurity and anti-phishing measures.

OKTA OPEN-SOURCES CATALOG OF AUTH0 RULES FOR THREAT DETECTION

Okta has open-sourced ready-made Sigma queries for Auth0 customers to detect account takeovers, misconfigurations, and suspicious behavior in event logs. Auth0 is an IAM platform used by organizations for login, authentication, and user management services. Organizations can utilize the rules by cloning the GitHub repo and using a Sigma converter (such as sigma-cli) to translate the rules into a query syntax that their SIEM supports.

AWS PRICING FOR KIRO DEV TOOL DUBBED 'A WALLET-WRECKING TRAGEDY'

AWS changed Kiro's pricing from reasonable plans to a split request model with "vibe" at $0.04 and "spec" at $0.20. Developers report monthly costs of $550-$1,950, far above the promised 1,000 interactions for $19. The free tier offers only 50 vibe requests, with no spec requests, requiring immediate payment for actual code execution. Open-source developers use 4-6 requests per action, making Kiro more expensive than AWS's Amazon Q ($40 for 3,000 requests) or competitors with unlimited plans.

MOZILLA WARNS GERMANY COULD SOON DECLARE AD BLOCKERS ILLEGAL

Mozilla has raised concerns about a recent ruling by Germany's Federal Supreme Court (BGH) in a case brought by online media company Axel Springer against Eyeo, the makers of the Adblock Plus browser extension. Axel Springer claimed that a website's HTML/CSS is a protected computer program, and therefore, ad blockers that interact with in-memory structures such as DOM, CSSOM, and the rendering tree should be considered unlawful reproduction and modification. The lawsuit has significant implications for other types of browser extensions that alter the DOM, as well as ad blockers.

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