“Spytech Necro” – Keksec’s Latest Python Malware
Lacework
OCTOBER 13, 2021
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Stop Zero-Day Malware With Zero Stress With PAN-OS 11.0 Nova
Palo Alto Networks
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
In 2021, there were more than 11,000 newly published vulnerabilities. With the sophistication of today’s threat landscape, malware is more evasive than ever. Nova – the next evolution of network security that allows you to stop zero-day malware with zero stress. The Evolution of Modern Malware.
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Menlo Security announces $100M Series E on $800M valuation
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Menlo Security , a malware and phishing prevention startup, announced a $100 million Series E today on an $800 million valuation. “When they click a link or engage with a website, the safe visuals are guaranteed to be malware-free, no matter where you go or you end up,” Ben-Efraim said.
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Analyzing the Vulnerabilities Associated with the Top Malware Strains of 2021
Tenable
AUGUST 4, 2022
Analyzing the Vulnerabilities Associated with the Top Malware Strains of 2021. International cybersecurity agencies issue a joint alert outlining the top malware strains of 2021. While malware is used for a variety of purposes, the government agencies point out that ransomware is a primary use case. CVE-2021-34527.
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CVE-2021-22893: Zero-Day Vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure Exploited in the Wild
Tenable
APRIL 20, 2021
CVE-2021-22893. CVE-2021-22893 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure. Based on the authentication requirement for these vulnerabilities, they are likely to be used in combination with CVE-2019-11510 and CVE-2021-22893 as part of a chained attack. Implanting malware and harvesting credentials.
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How Watchdog smuggles malware into your network as uninteresting photos
Lacework
JULY 15, 2022
This ancient technique has found its place in the world of malware, namely hiding malicious code within other files including image formatted files ( T1027.003 ). General indicators and signatures for steg malware are provided in the hunting section. Steg malware is uncommon relative to other malware. Malware Details.
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Top 5 Security Trends for CIOs
CIO
MARCH 15, 2023
A second, more pernicious risk is the fact that ChatGPT can write malware. Sometimes the malware has errors, but with simple repetition the hacker can generate multiple working versions of the code. Such polymorphic malware is particularly hard to detect, because it may be different from one attack to another.
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Kinsing & Dark.IoT botnet among threats targeting CVE-2022-26134
Lacework
JUNE 7, 2022
As of this writing we have observed active exploitation by known Cloud threat malware families such as Kinsing, “Hezb”, and the Dark.IoT botnet. One interesting development was the use of a new malware host – 195.2.79.26 This is noteworthy because Kinsing often leverages legacy infrastructure in their attacks.
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Volt Typhoon: U.S. Critical Infrastructure Targeted by State-Sponsored Actors
Tenable
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
critical infrastructure with the intent to maintain persistent access. critical infrastructure, showing a specific interest in operational technology (OT) environments. critical infrastructure, showing a specific interest in operational technology (OT) environments. and beyond.
Is a Deep Cover “Cyber Spy” Lurking in Your Data Infrastructure?
Infinidat
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Is a Deep Cover “Cyber Spy” Lurking in Your Data Infrastructure? The answer is none, but most of the time enterprise organizations don’t even know that a cybercriminal has infiltrated their data center, network, storage, and servers, compromising their data infrastructure. Evan Doherty. Thu, 02/24/2022 - 11:57. They have good reasons.
Radar trends to watch: August 2021
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
AUGUST 2, 2021
There’s a new technique for protecting natural language systems from attack by misinformation and malware bots: using honeypots to capture attackers’ key phrases proactively, and incorporate defenses into the training process. The attack apparently only affects on-premises infrastructure. AI and Data.
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Microsoft’s September 2021 Patch Tuesday Addresses 60 CVEs (CVE-2021-40444)
Tenable
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Microsoft addresses 60 CVEs in its September 2021 Patch Tuesday release, along with patches for a critical vulnerability in its MSHTML (Trident) engine that was first disclosed in an out-of-band advisory on September 7. This month's Patch Tuesday release includes fixes for: Azure Open Management Infrastructure. 4 Critical. 0 Moderate.
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Top 10 Highest Paying IT Jobs in India
The Crazy Programmer
NOVEMBER 6, 2021
The Indian information Technology has attained about $194B in 2021 and has a 7% share in GDP growth. Because these professionals manage the infrastructure of blockchain technologies like Bitcoin, Ripple, R3, and more. Nowadays, most companies want to protect themselves from malware, hacking and harmful viruses.
Government Advisories Warn of APT Activity Resulting from Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Tenable
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Critical Infrastructure.” This alert focuses on observed behavior from Russian state-sponsored threat groups targeting critical infrastructure organizations in several countries. CVE-2021-26855. CVE-2021-26857. CVE-2021-26858. CVE-2021-27065. Critical Infrastructure. Background. CVE-2020-14882.
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Attackers Hack Routers To Hit Critical Infrastructure, as CISA Calls for More Secure Router Design
Tenable
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
CISA is calling on router makers to improve security, because attackers like Volt Typhoon compromise routers to breach critical infrastructure systems. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week in the alert “ Security Design Improvements for SOHO Device Manufacturers. ”
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Radar trends to watch: November 2021
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Researchers have discovered that you can encode malware into DNA that attacks sequencing software and gives the attacker control of the computer. Infrastructure and Operations. Tools to harden machine learning models against attack include IBM’s Adversarial Robustness Toolbox and Microsoft’s Counterfit.
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Cybersecurity firm Fortanix secures capital to provide confidential computing services
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Companies (and VCs ) spend billions of dollars on cybersecurity, but primarily focus on protecting infrastructure or endpoints. According to one 2021 survey, 61% of security leaders in the enterprise believed their cybersecurity teams to be understaffed.
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Securing 5G for 2023 and beyond
CIO
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
5G infrastructure involves multiple components, each of which represents an area where there is potential risk: Virtualized infrastructure: 5G services will run on virtual machines ( VMs ) as well as Kubernetes-based container infrastructure in the cloud and in data centers. Radio rogues. Let’s prepare for the journey together.
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How TCS is helping to fight financial crime with AI and Microsoft Cloud
CIO
APRIL 17, 2023
In 2021, U.S. Challenges for fraud risk management Fraud is a big and a worthwhile business for today’s online criminals, who troll the internet and insert data-stealing malware into vulnerable sites and mobile apps. The stakes for financial organizations are growing as well. fraud losses amounted to $5.9
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Critical Infrastructure Orgs Cautioned About Chinese Drones, While Water Plants Advised To Boost Incident Response
Tenable
JANUARY 19, 2024
Find out why Uncle Sam is warning critical infrastructure facilities about drones made in China, while urging water treatment plants to beef up incident response plans. In addition, the latest on the Androxgh0st malware. 1 - Critical infrastructure orgs warned about using Chinese drones Here’s a warning from the U.S.
Radar trends to watch: January 2021
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
JANUARY 5, 2021
The attack came through malware planted in a security product from SolarWinds. It still isn’t known exactly what data has been accessed, or how to rebuild infrastructure that has been compromised. Commerce, Treasury, and Homeland Security departments, in addition to an unknown number of corporations.
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New Lacework report reveals increase in sophisticated cloud attacks
Lacework
MARCH 29, 2022
They never miss an opportunity to cash in, whether they take advantage of common cloud configuration mistakes, target software supply chains, or adapt malware to evade detection. In October 2021, a ua-parser-js developer’s NPM account was compromised and used to push a malicious update to the package. Linux Malware and the Cloud.
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CVE-2024-21762: Critical Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-Bound Write SSL VPN Vulnerability
Tenable
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
critical infrastructure through exploitation of known vulnerabilities Background On February 8, Fortinet published an advisory (FG-IR-24-015) to address a critical flaw in FortiOS, its network operating system. and international agencies. CISA, NSA and FBI warns of pre-positioning by Volt Typhoon in U.S.
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Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks Deliver Cloud-Native NGFW Service
Palo Alto Networks
APRIL 11, 2024
Google Cloud NGFW Enterprise offers cutting-edge Layer 7 security features, tailored to safeguard Google Cloud workloads from threats, such as malware, spyware and command-and-control attacks.
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Radar trends to watch: December 2021
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
DECEMBER 1, 2021
On-premises infrastructure will never disappear; there will always be some data that’s too difficult or important to move. The Trojan Source vulnerability uses Unicode’s ability to handle bi-directional text to hide malware directly in the source code, where it is invisible. The code literally does not appear to say what it means.
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9 Types of Phishing and Ransomware Attacks—And How to Identify Them
Ivanti
JANUARY 19, 2022
According to the Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report, phishing held the top spot as the data breach tactic used most often, jumping from 25% of all data breaches in 2020 to 36% in 2021. Ransomware, on the other hand, was responsible for most data breaches caused by malware. the top three?spots. Worse yet, these?types
Prisma Cloud Automatically Secures Unprotected Cloud Workloads
Palo Alto Networks
APRIL 28, 2021
The April 2021 Release for Prisma Cloud Propels Container Security Forward and Extends Our Workload Security Vision. The April 2021 release for Prisma Cloud propels container security forward and extends our workload security vision. Enhanced malware analysis for hosts and containers with WildFire integration.
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The Top 5 Largest Scale Intrusions in 2023
Palo Alto Networks
OCTOBER 2, 2024
This system is popular across highly regulated industries and government agencies, such as critical infrastructure providers, healthcare institutions and even government bodies. So why is a 2021 vulnerability on the 2023 top-five list? Some groups go so far as to automate data theft itself.
What Is cloud security?
Lacework
MAY 5, 2022
Then, in the 1990s, telecommunications companies began experimenting with how they could use bandwidth more effectively through server management, optimizing infrastructure, and designing efficient applications that benefit end users. The decentralized nature of cloud computing makes maintaining security more complex. Secure Endpoints.
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Top 5 security incidents of 2021
Lacework
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
We may have moved into a new year, but 2021 gave us plenty to remember when we look back at notable security concerns. In 2021, we saw the federal government issue active alerts advising the private sector on the risk of the incident. It’s in that spirit, we can take a look back on 5 of the top concerns of 2021.
Cybersecurity Snapshot: ChatGPT Gets So-So Grade in Code Analysis Test, while JCDC Pledges To Focus on Protecting Critical Infrastructure
Tenable
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Plus, JCDC will put special focus on critical infrastructure security in 2024. Improve critical infrastructure’s cybersecurity foundation. Accelerate cybersecurity innovation to curb emerging technology threats against critical infrastructure. And scammers leveraged tech tools to steal $10 billion from U.S. consumers last year.
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From Bugs to Breaches: 25 Significant CVEs As MITRE CVE Turns 25
Tenable
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Attackers could exploit Shellshock to gain full control of vulnerable systems, leading to data breaches, service interruptions and malware deployment. By sending crafted HTTP requests, attackers could gain RCE and take full control of affected devices to install malware or steal data. The impact extended far beyond local systems.
U.S. and Australian Agencies Publish Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on BianLian Ransomware Group
Tenable
MAY 18, 2023
Background As part of the #StopRansomware campaign, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the U.S. Background As part of the #StopRansomware campaign, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the U.S.
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Patch Tuesday: December 2021
Kaseya
DECEMBER 1, 2021
On Tuesday, December 14, 2021, Microsoft released its monthly set of software security patches. The December 2021 Security Update Release Notes can be found here. Patch Tuesday: November 2021 Updates. On Tuesday, November 9, 2021, Microsoft released its monthly set of software security patches.
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Critical Infrastructure Orgs Found Vulnerable to Basic Hacks, While New MITRE Tool Uses ML to Predict Attack Chains
Tenable
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
Report finds that many critical infrastructure networks can be breached using simple attacks. 1 - CISA: Critical infrastructure orgs susceptible to common attacks After assessing the security of 143 critical infrastructure organizations in 2023, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG).
What is a Security Operations Center (SOC) and Why Do You Need It?
Kaseya
MAY 2, 2022
The global average total cost of a data breach in 2021 was a whopping $4.24 However, given the volume of work that IT management entails, it can be very difficult for your IT team to have complete visibility of your IT infrastructure all of the time. And that’s why we have SOC. What is a Security Operations Center (SOC)? MDR vs. SOC.
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Critical infrastructure is more vulnerable than ever—your industry could be a prime target
Lacework
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
One of the only major changes in cybercriminal operations is who their victims are—today, instead of targeting individuals, they’re targeting critical infrastructure. So, why did this shift occur, and which types of critical infrastructure are most at risk? Critical infrastructure is organized into 16 different sectors.
Busting 5 Common Myths About Vulnerability Assessment
Tenable
APRIL 8, 2021
Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, recently characterized ransomware as "the most visible, disruptive cyberthreat." Others may be significantly isolated from the rest of the network, sharing little data with the vast majority of your IT infrastructure. 14, 2021 4. Tweet by fmr.
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5 New Aethon TUG Robot Vulnerabilities Expose Healthcare Facilities to IoMT Hackers
Ivanti
APRIL 19, 2022
After all, vulnerabilities in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) cost hospitals nearly $21 billion in 2021. Hijack legitimate administrative user sessions in the robots’ online portal and inject malware through the robots’ browser, further perpetuating cyber attacks on IT and security team members at related healthcare facilities.
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Call for Papers — Ignite ‘21 Is Now Open
Palo Alto Networks
AUGUST 13, 2021
This year’s Ignite user conference will be available in the comfort of your own home on November 16-19, 2021. SDN Virtualized Infrastructure. Malware Analysis & Sandboxing. Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management. The call for papers will close on September 3, 2021, 5pm PST. Network Security Management.
Prisma Cloud Automatically Secures Unprotected Cloud Workloads
Palo Alto Networks
APRIL 28, 2021
The April 2021 Release for Prisma Cloud Propels Container Security Forward and Extends Our Workload Security Vision. The April 2021 release for Prisma Cloud propels container security forward and extends our workload security vision. Enhanced malware analysis for hosts and containers with WildFire integration.
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Endpoint Security Basics: What It Does, How It Works, Controls, Technologies and More
Kaseya
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Statista reports that the number of mobile devices operating worldwide reached roughly 15 billion in 2021 , up by 1 billion since the previous year. Because these devices connect to the internet, they are vulnerable to malware and hacking. It examines and filters all incoming traffic for different types of malware.
NOC vs. SOC: Understanding the Differences
Kaseya
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
A NOC maintains and monitors a company’s IT infrastructure, including the network infrastructure, endpoints and cloud setups, to ensure they run smoothly and efficiently at all times. In 2021, Amazon missed out on an estimated $34 million in sales due to an internet outage. What is the difference between a NOC and a SOC?
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Healthcare Security: Ransomware Plays a Prominent Role in COVID-19 Era Breaches
Tenable
MARCH 10, 2021
As the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to place unprecedented strain on global healthcare infrastructure, attackers are finding what was already an attractive target even more enticing. And the activity looks set to continue unabated in 2021, with 56 breaches already disclosed as of February 28. Breaches Hit Healthcare Hard.
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