It's 5:05! Daily cybersecurity and open source briefing

Episode #72 - It's 5:05, Tuesday, February 7, 2023


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Hey, it's 5:05 on Tuesday, February 7th, 2023. From the Sourced Podcast Network in New York City, this is your host, Pokie Huang. Stories in today's episode come from Katy Craig in San Diego, California, Derek Weeks in Bethesda, Maryland, Olimpiu Pop in Transylvania, Romania, Ian Garrett, in Arlington, Virginia, Edwin Kwan in Sydney, Australia.Β 

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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Katy Craig, San Diego, California

Google unveils Bard

https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/tech/google-bard-chatgpt-rival/index.html

https://9to5google.com/2022/06/12/google-ai-lamda-sentient

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-does-it-want-688632134489

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Derek Weeks, Bethesda, Maryland

VMware hypervisors under attack

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/06/hackers-vmware-esxi-ransomware/

πŸ‡·πŸ‡΄ Olimpiu Pop, Transylvania, Romania

The Most Significant Non-Windows Ransomware Attack Targets Vulnerable VMWare ESXi Machines

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italy-sounds-alarm-large-scale-computer-hacking-attack-2023-02-05/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/massive-esxiargs-ransomware-attack-targets-vmware-esxi-servers-worldwide/

https://blog.checkpoint.com/2023/02/06/massive-ransomware-attack-targets-vmware-esxi-servers/

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21974

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0002.html

https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/alerte/CERTFR-2023-ALE-015/

https://blog.ovhcloud.com/ransomware-targeting-vmware-esxi/

https://search.censys.io/search?resource=hosts&sort=RELEVANCE&per_page=25&virtual_hosts=EXCLUDE&q=services.http.response.body%3A+%22How+to+Restore+Your+Files%22+and+services.http.response.html_title%3A%22How+to+Restore+Your+Files%22&ct=1

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/782193/esxi-ransomware-help/

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Ian Garrett, Arlington, Virginia

Entertainment, Internet, and a side of Cybersecurity: Comcast will build cyber products

https://www.securityweek.com/comcast-creates-enterprise-cybersecurity-business-unit/


πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia

2FA Bypass for Facebook

https://medium.com/pentesternepal/two-factor-authentication-bypass-on-facebook-3f4ac3ea139c

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