InfoSecSherpa’s News Roundup for Monday, August 15, 2022

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InfoSecSherpa (Tracy Z. Maleeff)

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Thanks for your patience on the newsletter hiatus last week while I was in Las Vegas for “Hacker Summer Camp.”

1. SALT: transfer learning-based threat model for attack detection in smart home
   (Nature, July 18th)
2. This String of Emojis Is Actually Malware
   (Motherboard Tech by Vice, August 15th)
3. Twilio Incident: What Signal Users Need to Know
   (Signal, August 15th)
4. Russian hackers target Ukraine with default Word template hijacker
   (Bleeping Computer, August 15th)
5. Russia’s Shuckworm cyber group launching ongoing attacks on Ukraine
   (Tech Republic, August 15th)
6. ‘Hackers against conspiracies’: Cyber sleuths take aim at election disinformation
   (Politico, August 15th)
7. South Staffordshire (UK) Water says it was target of cyber attack as criminals bungle extortion attempt
   (Sky News, August 15th)
8. Proposed Amendments to New York Department of Financial Services’ Cybersecurity Regulations Impose New Obligations on Large Entities, Boards of Directors and CISOs
   (The National Law Review, August 15th)
9. US firm in takeover talks with Darktrace
   (The Times UK, August 16th)
10. Ski-Doo maker BRP resumes operations following cyber attack; shares fluctuate
    (Market Watch, August 15th)