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Kinsing Malware Hides Itself as a Manual Page and Targets Cloud Servers

Tenable

One of the most common cryptomining threats for cloud environments is the Kinsing malware. Kinsing is a notorious malware family active for several years, primarily targeting Linux-based cloud infrastructure. The Kinsing malware uses different locations to stay undetected and hides itself as a system file.

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Russian Actors Weaponize Legitimate Services in Multi-Malware Attack

Ooda Loop

A novel cyber campaign by Russian speaking actors abused legitimate internet services, such as GitHub and FileZilla, to deploy multiple malware variants, Recorded Future has reported. This includes the deployment of Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS), the current version of which is capable of infecting both Intel-based and ARM-based Macs.

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Tenable Bolsters Its Cloud Security Arsenal with Malware Detection

Tenable

Tenable Cloud Security is enhancing its capabilities with malware detection. Even though cloud adoption has become mainstream, many threats and attack tactics still rely on malware payloads. Tenable Cloud Security can now find malware in many different cloud workloads. The addition of malware detection enhances this approach.

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More connected, less secure: Addressing IoT and OT threats to the enterprise

CIO

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a permanent fixture for consumers and enterprises as the world becomes more and more interconnected. Malware is the top threat to IoT/OT With so many vulnerabilities plaguing IoT devices, these devices are attractive and relatively easy entry points into corporate networks for attackers.

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Malware targeting latest F5 vulnerability

Lacework

At this time, Shodan reports 23,494 publicly facing BIG IP machines on the internet at the time of this writing. Hunting for Malware. This resulted in numerous hits for Miria variants for various architectures demonstrating how quickly malware authors can adopt PoCs to distribute their malware.

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Backed by Sequoia Southeast Asia, SquareX protects web users with disposable browsers

TechCrunch

For example, someone in the process of receiving of an important Word document from a contact would have that file flagged as malware and would end up disabling security software in order to view it. Ramachandran said SquareX is intended as a alternative to VPN, anti-virus, anti-malware and other endpoint security solutions.

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Mirai malware infects CCTV camera

Darktrace

With cyber-attacks on the IoT devices becoming increasingly prevalent, this blog post details how Darktrace’s AI identified the Mirai malware in an Internet-connected CCTV camera, breaking down each stage of the attack life cycle.

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