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

Tenable

Unlike traditional on-premises infrastructure, cloud infrastructure allows attackers to quickly deploy resources for cryptomining, making it easier to exploit. One of the most common cryptomining threats for cloud environments is the Kinsing malware. It was first spotted at the end of 2022 in China.

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Volt Typhoon: U.S. Critical Infrastructure Targeted by State-Sponsored Actors

Tenable

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.

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Kinsing & Dark.IoT botnet among threats targeting CVE-2022-26134

Lacework

Details regarding the recent Confluence OGNL ( CVE-2022-26134 ) exploit were released to the public on June 3rd 2022. While this was expected, there appears to be more widespread exploitation of CVE-2022-26134 compared to previous Confluence vulnerabilities. Username first seen in early May with various malware.

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

CIO

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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How Watchdog smuggles malware into your network as uninteresting photos

Lacework

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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CISA Finding: 90% of Initial Access to Critical Infrastructure Is Gained Via Identity Compromise. What Can You Do About It?

Tenable

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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Learning From the Past — Ten 2022 Cybersecurity Events to Know

Palo Alto Networks

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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