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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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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Tenable

JANUARY 11, 2022

Microsoft’s January 2022 Patch Tuesday Addresses 97 CVEs (CVE-2022-21907). Tue, 01/11/2022 - 15:32. Microsoft addresses 97 CVEs in its January 2022 Patch Tuesday release, including four zero-day vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed but not exploited in the wild. Security Respo…. 9 Critical. 88 Important.

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Ivanti

APRIL 12, 2022

Attackers are exploiting the Spring4Shell vulnerability to spread Mirai Botnet malware. Apache Tomcat updates released on April 1 resolved CVE-2022-22965. Make sure to spend some time evaluating your organizations’ exposure to Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965) and deploy recently released updates where needed.

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Tenable

MARCH 8, 2022

Microsoft addresses 71 CVEs in its March 2022 Patch Tuesday release, including three vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed as zero-days. Microsoft patched 71 CVEs in the March 2022 Patch Tuesday release, with three rated as critical and 68 rated as important. CVE-2022-24512 |.NET 3 Critical. 68 Important. 0 Moderate.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MAY 3, 2022

2022 promises to be an even bigger year for cryptocrime than 2021. The NSA, Department of Energy, and other federal agencies have discovered a new malware toolkit named “pipedream” that is designed to disable power infrastructure. The malware targets WatchGuard firewalls and Asus routers. It’s probably a better experience in VR.

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Ivanti

JULY 12, 2022

for Independence Day and a Zero Day release from Google to resolve a buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2022-2294), which also means an update for any Chromium-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge. Microsoft resolved a total of 88 CVE including a zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2022-22047 ), 4 Critical CVEs and 4 re-releasedupdated CVEs.

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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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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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. In fact, two notorious botnets, Mirai and Gafgyt, are major contributors to a recent surge in IoT malware attacks.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Be it from hackers, malware, online phishing, and many more. The post 5 Tech Roles Still In Demand in 2022 appeared first on HackerEarth Blog. . #5 – Cybersecurity specialist. What do they do? The description of this role is pretty self-explanatory, it is to keep computer information systems and all the data in them safe!

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Ivanti

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Exchange Server update does NOT contain fixes for the zero day vulnerabilities reported on September 29, 2022 ( CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082 ). Microsoft has resolved a vulnerability in Windows COM+ Event System Service that could allow an Escalation of Privilege ( CVE-2022-41033 ). Zero day vulnerability.

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Prisma Clud

JUNE 22, 2023

Using WildFire in 2021 to analyze malicious files, our threat research team discovered a 73% increase in Cobalt Strike malware samples compared to 2020. The speed, volume and sophistication of modern malware attacks has made them more difficult to detect.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 2, 2022

A system is installed; the default password is changed; the person who changed the password leaves; the password is lost; the company installs password recovery software, which is often malware-infested, to recover the password. A new technique for browser de-anonymization is based on correlating users’ activities on different websites.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Fundraising tips for early and midstage startups in 2022. If you’re curious about which kinds of startups investors are (and aren’t) willing to look at, Kami Vision CEO Yamin Durrani has written a comprehensive post about the changes he’s between fundraising in Q4 2021 and Q3 2022. You can sign up here.).

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CIO

MARCH 10, 2023

The MyDoom worm , one of the fastest-spreading pieces of malware on the internet, uses automation to propagate and is estimated to have caused around $38 billion in damage. The Cost of a Data Breach 2022 Report highlights the role of automation in halving the cost of a data breach and reducing the time to identify and contain by 77 days.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Welcome to the Daily Crunch for Thursday, April 14, 2022! 8 cannabis investors share their outlook on the European market in H1 2022. 8 cannabis investors share their outlook on the European market in H1 2022. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m.

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Infinidat

MARCH 20, 2025

Now, its time for a progress report to mark how far we have come since the first unveiling of Herzogs Dirty Dozen in 2022. 1] Insufficient level of cyber resilience Most enterprises still have inadequate levels of cyber resilience to be sufficiently safeguarded against cyberattacks, especially ransomware and malware.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 1, 2022

A new front for security: malware hidden within deep learning models. Fortunately, retraining the model destroys the malware. That’s ironic, given the claims of many web3 proponents, but not fundamentally different from traditional software products. Will Russia’s conflict with Ukraine spread into a global cyberwar ?

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Chaos is new malware that can infect both Windows and Linux devices, including routers, firewalls, and other networking hardware. It is spreading in the wild; it propagates by taking advantage of known vulnerabilities.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 5, 2022

Corporate contact forms are replacing email as a vector for transmitting malware. However, users of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and other browsers originating outside of Russia would have to install the Russian root certificate manually to access Russian sites without warnings.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Joined by Didi Dotan, the former chief architect of identity at EMC and director of identity services at Cisco, Caulfield set out to launch a service that could detect and respond to identity threats — e.g. social engineering, phishing and malware — at “enterprise scale.” Israel and Uruguay.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 13, 2023

On December 29, 2022, we were alerted to suspicious GitHub OAuth activity by one of our customers. On December 30, 2022, we learned that this customer’s GitHub OAuth token had been compromised by an unauthorized third party. This machine was compromised on December 16, 2022.

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Aqua Security

MARCH 28, 2022

Second, it uses standard container image commands, so it’s not easily detected by malware scanning agents. 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.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2024

Text messages can be intercepted via malware such as SMS trojan , SIM swapping (an account breaching technique in which fraudsters pay wireless carrier employees to swap a customer’s SIM for one controlled by the threat actor), and OTP interception bots , which can access customers’ one-time-passwords.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

On February 7, researchers at Fortinet published a blog post highlighting the exploitation of CVE-2022-42475 and CVE-2023-27997 by Chinese threat groups including Volt Typhoon , APT15 (also known as Ke3chang) and APT31 (also known as ZIRCONIUM) as well as UNC757 ( also known as Fox Kitten), which has a “suspected nexus to the Iranian government.”

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CIO

JANUARY 20, 2023

In August 2022, the French hospital Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF) was the victim of a ransomware attack that disabled medical imaging and patient admission systems. Healthcare Seeks 60% YoY Increase in Cyberattacks,” HIPAA Journal, November 17, 2022, [link] 2. But ransomware isn’t the only risk. Simplify operations.

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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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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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Darktrace

MARCH 22, 2023

Amadey Info-stealer malware was detected across over 30 customers between August and December 2022, spanning various regions and industry verticals. This blog highlights the resurgence of Malware as a Service (MaaS) and the leveraging of existing N-Day vulnerabilities in SmokeLoader campaigns to launch Amadey on customers’ networks.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And Gartner estimates spending on information security and risk management will total $172 billion in 2022, up from $155 billion in 2021 and $137 billion the year prior. A December 2021 survey by CSO found that 44% of security leaders at large companies expected their budgets to increase in the upcoming 12 months.

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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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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

David is a computer security researcher with over 17 years of experience in malware analysis. The post Hiring Remote Developers Versus Relocation – What To Choose in 2022? This article is contributed by David Balaban. He is also a regular contributor to 500+ high-profile tech and security websites.

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Tenable

APRIL 8, 2025

Microsoft identified this vulnerability in ransomware deployed by the PipeMagic malware via the group tracked as Storm-2460. Microsoft has patched an average of 10 vulnerabilities per year in the CLFS driver since 2022. It was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 7.8 and is rated as important. It was exploited in the wild as a zero-day.

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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. The targeting activity spans from January 2020 through February 2022. Defending Active Directory.

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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

MARCH 3, 2023

The Royal ransomware operation emerged in January 2022, and throughout that year were involved in several high profile attacks, such as ones against Silverstone Circuit and Queensland University of Technology. Analysis When the threat actor behind Royal emerged in January 2022, it was using the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Today, there’s a wall of new exciting things to look at…including, among other things, an opportunity Neesha has for you if you’re running a space startup: Apply to pitch onstage at TC Sessions: Space 2022 ! Locked out of Mars : Hackers found a way to lock out Mars Stealer malware from their own servers , Zack writes.

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