CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

These issues are akin to leaving the front door to your digital infrastructure unlocked. 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. of the total number of attempted IoT malware attacks.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2022

Yet, in 2022, the first three conversations are laser-focused on cybersecurity and how storage is a critical element of an overall corporate cybersecurity strategy. If an enterprise does not have the proper level of cyber resilience built into its storage and data infrastructure, there is a huge gap.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Last year’s most popular posts on the Unit 42 Threat Research blog let us examine what the events of 2022 can tell us about the year to come. Even before the beginning of the recent events starting in February 2022, there was significant cybersecurity activity in Eastern Europe. All Eyes on Eastern Europe. Beginning on Jan.

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Infinidat

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Is a Deep Cover “Cyber Spy” Lurking in Your Data Infrastructure? Thu, 02/24/2022 - 11:57. 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.

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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-2022-30190.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The popularity of cryptojacking (mining cryptocurrency with malware planted in someone else’s applications) continues to rise, as the collapse in cryptocurrency prices makes legitimate mining unprofitable. A threat group named Worok is using steganography to hide malware within PNG images. Its intent is to detect vulnerabilities.

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Aqua Security

MARCH 28, 2022

First, the vulnerability shows up in the container image, not in the Kubernetes manifests, so it’s harder to spot with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) or admission control solutions. Second, it uses standard container image commands, so it’s not easily detected by malware scanning agents.

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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. and international agencies. CISA, NSA and FBI warns of pre-positioning by Volt Typhoon in U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — part of the Department of Homeland Security — issued an unprecedented warning recommending that “all organizations — regardless of size — adopt a heightened posture when it comes to cybersecurity and protecting their most critical assets.”.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We’re urging all orgs to put #ShieldsUp to: - Reduce the likelihood of a cyber intrusion - Quickly detect a potential intrusion - Ensure you’re prepared to respond - Maximize resilience 3/4 — Jen Easterly (@CISAJen) February 12, 2022. Critical Infrastructure.” The targeting activity spans from January 2020 through February 2022.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 5, 2022

Michigan is starting to build the infrastructure needed to support autonomous vehicles : dedicated lanes, communications, digital signage, and more. Corporate contact forms are replacing email as a vector for transmitting malware. It’s particularly interesting as an example of human-machine collaboration.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The European Union (EU) adopted the revised Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) in November 2022. It is especially important in a time of growing geopolitical tensions and cyberattacks where European citizens and their economies depend on a stable and secure digital infrastructure.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

technology employees in 2022, and the pay growth was even higher for cybersecurity architects and engineers, whose compensation benefitted from their highly specialized skills and the criticality of their jobs. in 2022 to $111,348, and, despite tech industry layoffs, tech unemployment stood at only 1.5% in 2022 to $96,379.

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Tenable

AUGUST 26, 2024

Conventional wisdom suggests the keys to protect critical infrastructure against cyberattacks are network segmentation and OT security. In fact, a CISA probe of 121 critical infrastructure networks found that their weakest link is identity compromise. Coast Guard (USCG), probed the networks of 121 critical infrastructure organizations.

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Lacework

AUGUST 17, 2022

AWS re:Inforce was back in person in Boston for the 2022 edition. The conference features a couple of announcements from AWS—mainly Amazon GuardDuty’s support for scanning EBS volumes for malware and Amazon Detective’s support for Amazon EKS workload investigation. The one critical takeaway. I’m actually happy about that.

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Tenable

MARCH 3, 2023

Background As part of their #StopRansomware campaign, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have released a cybersecurity advisory (CSA) discussing the Royal ransomware group. Analysis When the threat actor behind Royal emerged in January 2022, it was using the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

trillion in IT spend overall in 2022. ” “When [CrowdStrike] detects malware on the end point we can find and remove the log-in,” he said, adding that CrowdStrike turning to a third party like DoControl for this work is a “testament to how hard all this is.”

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Tenable

AUGUST 30, 2023

As part of the investigation, Mandiant discovered that attackers had been exploiting the vulnerability as a zero-day as early as October 2022. In these attacks, UNC4841 leveraged multiple backdoor malware families, dubbed SALTWATER , SEASPY , SEASIDE , SUBMARINE (DEPTHCHARGE), and WHIRLPOOL. Mandiant refers to this group as UNC4841.

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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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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. Across our dataset, 31% of malware infections that we tracked during this period stemmed from Log4j exploitation as the initial infection vector.

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CIO

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As 2022 wraps up, many IT leaders are re-evaluating their current infrastructure to understand how they can continue to modernize, reduce complexity at scale and — most importantly — protect their organization. But it’s not just the price tag.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Storage has emerged in 2022 as a strategic asset that the C-suite, not just the CIO, can no longer overlook. This means that every possession in a company’s storage estate needs to be cyber resilient, designed to thwart ransomware, malware, internal cyber threats, and other potential attacks. Reduce IT costs. Key takeaways.

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Tenable

AUGUST 25, 2023

government says public- and private-sector organizations alike must start getting ready now – especially critical infrastructure operators. The vast majority of enterprises polled – 95% – experienced multiple cyberattacks in the past 12 months, with phishing (74%), malware (60%) and software vulnerability exploits (50%) being the most common.

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Tenable

MARCH 29, 2022

On March 15, CrowdStrike published technical details and a proof-of-concept for CVE-2022-0811, a vulnerability they have named cr8escape, in the CRI-O Container Engine for Kubernetes. CVE-2022-0811 is a container escape vulnerability in CRI-O that can lead to elevation of privileges. was released to address CVE-2022-0811.

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Lacework

MAY 20, 2022

CVE(s) (if available): CVE-2022-22954, CVE-2022-22955,CVE-2022-22956, CVE-2022-22957, CVE-2022-22958, CVE-2022-22959, CVE-2022-22960, CVE-2022-22961, CVE-2022-22972, CVE-2022-22973. For more details on Keksec , refer to Lacework Labs’ blogs and Github.

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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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Kaseya

MAY 2, 2022

According to the trends over the last couple of years, this figure is expected to rise in 2022. 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. MDR vs. SOC.

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Ivanti

JUNE 3, 2024

Mobile Ransomware : In 2022, mobile ransomware moved from an experiment to a legitimate threat — from simple overlays that could be dismissed with a reboot to ones that encrypted files and locked down the device for real. Malware : The vast majority of Android malware is delivered from third-party app stores.

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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.

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CIO

MAY 23, 2023

The spread of convergence Convergence is important to reducing cybersecurity complexity because it brings together the network and its security infrastructure into a single layer. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. We predict that the convergence of networking and security will continue to expand to more areas.

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Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 28, 2021

New functionality increases automation and detection, simplifies compliance checks and deepens visibility into malware threats for containers and hosts. Enhanced malware analysis for hosts and containers with WildFire integration. Additionally, new anti-malware and exploit prevention capabilities cover hosts and containers.

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“Palo Alto Networks, long known as the inventors of the next-generation firewall (NGFW), demonstrate real innovation across multiple criteria in the network security space.” – The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewalls, Q4 2022 Report. New Hardware Platform Releases. Read the PA-1400 Series datasheet. Meet the PA-445 and PA-415.

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Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 18, 2023

According to our global pulse survey of 1,300 C-Suite leaders in What’s Next in Cyber 2022 , 96% of CXOs experienced at least one breach in the past year. The usual reaction by security teams is to review and add products across the entire security spectrum – intrusion prevention, anti-malware, DNS security, WAF and more.

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Infinidat

MAY 12, 2022

Thu, 05/12/2022 - 15:04. Not only does this address the hyper-speed of business and real-time systems, but it also changes the game for building cyber resilience into your data infrastructure. To learn more about Infinidat and VeeamOn, join us at the VeeamON 2022, May 16-19 in Las Vegas (booth B6) and Virtual - [link].

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Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 28, 2021

New functionality increases automation and detection, simplifies compliance checks and deepens visibility into malware threats for containers and hosts. Enhanced malware analysis for hosts and containers with WildFire integration. Additionally, new anti-malware and exploit prevention capabilities cover hosts and containers.

Cloud 92

Cloud Malware Serverless Compliance 92

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 2022, 71% of companies worldwide were affected by ransomware , with 62.9% What is the difference between a NOC and a SOC?

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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. Miscellaneous.

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