Tenable

APRIL 8, 2021

"Patch" is the common slang for software and firmware updates released by software manufacturers on a regular basis to address bugs and vulnerabilities as well as bring new features and general functionality improvements to various apps, platforms and operating systems. . 14, 2021 4. Tweet by fmr. 7, 2020 8.

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Ivanti

APRIL 13, 2021

According to the Verizon Mobile Security Index 2021 (MSI) report, 79% of respondents saw remote working increase in their company. According to the same Verizon MSI 2021 report, what was the attack vector of choice by these cybercriminals? Ransomware is malware whose sole purpose is to extort money from you. What is ransomware?

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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. CVE Description CVSSv3 Severity CVE-2024-21762 Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-bound Write Vulnerability in sslvpnd 9.6

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Tenable

JANUARY 3, 2025

General recommendations include: Use messaging applications that offer end-to-end encrypted communications for text messages, and for voice and video calls and that are compatible with both iPhone and Android operating systems. Regularly update your phones operating system and your mobile applications to their latest versions.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 5, 2022

workers say mobile phones or tablets help them be productive at work, according to a broad 2021 survey. Jailbreaking increases the risk of downloading malware. They may use a stager to deliver the payload directly into memory rather than installing malware on the host machine. Financial Malware and Cryptomining Protection.

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Kaseya

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Cybersecurity affects the everyday lives of most IT practitioners and IT leaders worldwide, with more than 50 percent of them citing “Improving IT Security” as a top priority in 2021 as per our 2020 IT Operations Survey Results Report. Moreover, only about 45 percent have automated patch management.

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Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 22, 2024

Two of the top five Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) exploited in 2023 were identified years before that (2020 and 2021), which illustrates a significant lag in patching known vulnerabilities. About 42% of our investigations involved a backdoor, while 32% of malware-related matters had some kind of interactive C2 software.

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Kaseya

AUGUST 6, 2019

In the first year, January 2020 to January 2021, Windows 7 Enterprise updates will cost $25 per device, in the second year, $50 per device, and in the third year $100 per device. The main reason you might do this is because you have a legacy application that won’t run on the new operating system.

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Tenable

JULY 11, 2023

The discovery of CVE-2023-32046 follows CVE-2021-40444 , another zero-day flaw in Microsoft’s MSHTML that was exploited in the wild and patched as part of Microsoft’s September 2021’s Patch Tuesday release. It was used by a variety of threat actors, from advanced persistent threat actors and ransomware groups.

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Tenable

JULY 12, 2021

The phrase was introduced by Michael Howard in an MSDN Magazine article in 2003 in which he calculated the relative attack surface of different versions of the Windows operating system and discussed why users should install only the needed features of a product in order to reduce the amount of code left open to future attack. .

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Gaining Initial Access Recently, the threat group has been observed exploiting CVE-2022-24990 , CVE-2021-44228 (Log4Shell) and CVE-2021-20038 to gain access to target environments. CVE-2021-44228 is Log4Shell , the infamous RCE in log4j disclosed in December 2021. It was patched in February 2023. kr and xpopup[.]com.

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Kaseya

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In 2020, Ryuk Ransomware operators shut down Universal Health Services by exploiting the zerologon vulnerability to gain control of domain controllers. In mid-2021, cybercriminals exploited an old, unpatched memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Office that allowed them to remotely execute code on vulnerable devices.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 2, 2022

Perhaps the scariest exploit in security would be a rootkit that cannot be detected or removed , even by wiping the disk and reinstalling the operating system. In 2021, they announced a public database containing the structure of a million proteins. Minerva has also been trained and tested in chemistry and physics.

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Lacework

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Now however, the cloud has become the default operating system that organizations rely on to run their businesses and develop new products and services. One of many major breaches due to misconfigurations occurred in 2021, when a leading cloud service provider (CSP) reportedly misconfigured its own cloud storage buckets.

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Tenable

MAY 25, 2023

How long has Volt Typhoon been operating? Reports suggest that the group has been active since “at least 2021.” LOTL techniques include the use of legitimate networking tools preloaded onto operating systems in order to mask their activities, such as certutil , ntdsutil , xcopy and more. Does Volt Typhoon use any malware?

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Kaseya

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Since Google’s Project Zero was founded in July 2014, it has compiled data on “in the wild” zero-day exploits, with 2021 being the biggest year on record. Various tools are included in these kits, such as plug-ins and a management console, that make it easier to launch a cyberattack or spread malware.

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Ivanti

APRIL 22, 2022

Patching only new vulnerabilities is similarly insufficient, as 91% of current ransomware vulnerabilities were identified before 2021. Testing is conducted in an extensive virtual environment to ensure the packages work across a wide array of application versions and operating systems before they are released to the product.

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Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 22, 2024

Two of the top five Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) exploited in 2023 were identified years before that (2020 and 2021), which illustrates a significant lag in patching known vulnerabilities. About 42% of our investigations involved a backdoor, while 32% of malware-related matters had some kind of interactive C2 software.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The most common types of attacks were social engineering; malware; denial of service; and compromise of unpatched systems. The document, titled “ Framing Software Component Transparency ,” was last updated in 2021. This new version revises and expands the topic of SBOM attributes, which are used to identify SBOM components.

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Openxcell

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

There are different options of different Play Stores for different operating systems. The most used operating systems right now are Android and iOS and thus it attracts huge number of users. The most used Operating Systems now are Android and iOS. Ultimate Mobile App Stores List (2021).

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Working with international partners, the FBI led the operation against the botnet, which was active since 2021 and was controlled by Beijing-based IT contractor Integrity Technology Group, also known as Flax Typhoon. Periodically reboot IoT devices, which terminates running processes and may remove some malware types.

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Ivanti

JUNE 14, 2023

AI generated polymorphic exploits can bypass leading security tools Recently, AI-generated polymorphic malware has been developed to bypass EDR and antivirus, leaving security teams with blind spots into threats and vulnerabilities. This mutation is not detectable by traditional signature-based and low-level heuristics detection engines.

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Kaseya

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Malware and viruses: Cybercriminals use viruses and malware to take over and disrupt computer systems and networks to render them inoperable. Phishing email: About 80% of IT professionals say they are facing a significant increase in phishing attacks in 2021. In 2021, a data breach cost an average of $4.24

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Xicom

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

billion people across the world use the internet at the starting of 2021 – that’s close to 60% of the total population. Apple’s closed ecosystem means you are creating for selected standardized devices and operating systems. For sure, this open environment means Android is more susceptible to malware and pirate apps.

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Lacework

OCTOBER 6, 2022

We previously exploited such issues at 2021 DEF CON for both Falco and Tracee. One exploitation primitive we used is the userfaultfd system call. Many syscalls can be blocked because the operating system needs to wait for the underlying resources to respond. The Previous Exploits. Secure computing mode (seccomp) .

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Ivanti

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Now endpoint admins and security operations teams can get a holistic view of their endpoint estate, regardless of operating system or device. . According to IDC’s 2018 Cloud Computing Survey, 100% of the 550 companies surveyed planned to have some form of cloud computing by 2021.

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Modus Create

MAY 25, 2022

It can also lead to the spread of malware and other malicious software and reduce your organization’s ability to detect and respond to a cyber attack. . Installing and maintaining anti-virus and anti-malware software. Keeping operating systems and software up to date. Ransomware & Malware.

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PowerSchool

JUNE 2, 2021

Attacks have disrupted daily operations in districts across the U.S., Have administrative rights for end users been removed so students can’t install unauthorized software on the devices? Does your web content filtering protect these devices when they’re being used remotely? Is it set up on every device?

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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. Cryptocurrency. Why hasn’t Tesla learned from the problems other IoT vendors have experienced with smart locks and other devices?

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 10, 2021

An attacker plants malware on your system that encrypts all the files, making your system useless, then offers to sell you the key you need to decrypt the files. An email to a victim entices them to open an attachment or to visit a website that installs malware. Keep operating systems and browsers up-to-date.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Following the Colonial Pipeline incident in 2021, Jon Miller and Ryan Smith wondered why, with the widespread adoption of security tools, ransomware was still growing exponentially. It’s an odd dichotomy.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 1, 2022

The Eternity Project is a new malware-as-a-service organization that offers many different kinds of tools for data theft, ransomware, and many other exploits. Passkey is operating system-independent, and supports both Bluetooth in addition to Internet protocols. of net revenue (with discounts of up to 25% for prompt payment).

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Tenable

JANUARY 19, 2024

In addition, the latest on the Androxgh0st malware. 6 - CISA and FBI issue warning about Androxgh0st malware Is the Androxgh0st malware on your radar screen? Scan servers’ file systems for unrecognized PHP files. Plus, the challenges stressing out CISOs are also opening new doors for them. And much more!

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2022

We used data from the first nine months (January through September) of 2021. Security was frequently in the news in 2021, and for the worst possible reasons. Content about privacy is up 90%; threat modeling is up 58%; identity is up 50%; application security is up 45%; malware is up 34%; and zero trust is up 23%.

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d2iq

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Surveys show that the average cost of a data breach in 2021 was about $4.24 This is borne out in research that shows that “Supply chain attacks rose by 42% in the first quarter of 2021 in the U.S., Provides support for immutable operating systems such as Flatcar. impacting up to seven million people.”As

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2024

Content usage about design patterns increased 13% from 2021 to 2022, so this year’s decline just undoes last year’s gain. It’s now used in operating systems (Linux kernel components), tool development, and even enterprise software. decline, stabilizing after a huge gain from 2021 to 2022. We also saw 9.8%

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Lacework

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The malware infected the industrial control systems that were used to operate the plant, which then caused some of the machinery to spin too quickly and severely damage and destroy itself. . For the first time, malware was used to cause physical damage. Today, almost all critical infrastructure sectors are at risk.

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