TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Ax Sharma is a security researcher and reporter. His areas of interest include open source software security, malware analysis, data breaches, and scam investigations. Needless to say, the sabotaged versions of node-ipc — now effectively malware — were taken down from the npm registry. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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The Crazy Programmer

MARCH 29, 2022

The email validation system, known as DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance), is meant to safeguard your company’s email domain from being exploited for phishing, email spoofing , and other cybercrimes. For email authentication, DMARC records use SPF and DKIM. DMARC: A Brief History.

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I also emphasized that companies need to urgently review their employee access protocol, writing that companies must “ make it a point to do continuous employee training to help your teams avoid being duped by phishing and malware tactics.” According to reports, MGM and Caesars were both customers of identity management company Okta.

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The Parallax

OCTOBER 22, 2019

They were initially reported to Avira on July 22 and Avast on August 16, and are being publicly detailed for the first time because of SafeBreach’s responsible-disclosure process. The SafeBreach disclosures accompany a report from Avast revealing a new attack against its CCleaner software on Monday, October 21, following a 2017 hack.

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In fact, CIO has reported that it takes only a few minutes for experienced hackers to set up a social engineering attack against enterprises (and their managed service providers) that consider themselves to be secure and protected. Deploy email authentication standards on enterprise email servers to check and verify inbound emails.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Meanwhile, a report foresees stronger AI use by defenders and hackers in 2025. 1 - Report ranks 2023’s most frequently exploited vulnerabilities Wondering what were attackers’ preferred vulnerabilities last year? In addition, the report found that attackers typically strike gold with vulnerabilities that are less than two years old.

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Tenable

MARCH 14, 2025

Meanwhile, Tenable did a deep dive on DeepSeeks malware-creation capabilities. Other mitigation recommendations offered in the advisory include: Require multifactor authentication for as many services as possible. To get all the details, read the blog DeepSeek Deep Dive Part 1: Creating Malware, Including Keyloggers and Ransomware.

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Cloud security is one of the big drivers among enterprises making IT investments this year, according to a recent report from Gartner , which estimated that some $4.4 Users are authenticated, but equally when they leave an organization, or change roles, and then try to use the same documents, it can be seen, flagged, and if needed stopped.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

government and the companies that are best prepared to provide safe-by-default solutions to uplift the whole ecosystem,” says a report published by the Homeland Security Department’s Cyber Safety Review Board. “Organizations must act now to protect themselves, and the Board identified tangible ways to do so, with the help of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2022

Haje, with his rare overlapping perspective as a reporter AND pitch coach AND former director at a VC fund, breaks it all down as only he can. We uncover and report the big cybersecurity news of the day — hacks, data breaches, nation-state attacks, surveillance, and national security — and how it affects you, and the wider tech scene.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2024

When you add multi-factor authentication (MFA) resets to the picture, that number is likely even higher. Most authentication methods are actually quite easy to get around, and in many cases were never intended to be security factors. In 2022, Microsoft reported more than 382,000 MFA fatigue attacks.

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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. We’ve written up our discoveries in our bi-annual Cloud Threat Report Vol.3 Linux Malware and the Cloud. 3 which is available here. View Infographic.

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Kaseya

JANUARY 23, 2020

The report identifies their top priorities for effective endpoint management and helps in selecting the right solution according to business needs. Kaseya was selected as a Top 3 vendor in two of the categories in the report– Patch Management and Asset and Inventory Management. Kaseya VSA Two-factor Authentication.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Why securing cloud workloads is an urgent matter In recent years, major cloud service providers encountered 6,000 malware samples actively communicating with them, underlining the magnitude of cloud security challenges. 3 We have seen an increase of 15% in cloud security breaches as compared to last year. 8 Complexity.

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Tenable

AUGUST 16, 2024

And get the latest on Q2’s most prevalent malware, the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware gang and CVE severity assessments! That’s the main topic of the Cloud Security Alliance’s new report “ Securing LLM Backed Systems: Essential Authorization Practices ,” published this week. Plus, MIT launched a new database of AI risks.

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Tenable

APRIL 20, 2021

Pulse Connect Secure Authentication Bypass Vulnerability. CVE-2021-22893 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure. Authenticated. Authenticated. Implanting malware and harvesting credentials. Description. Privileges. CVE-2021-22893. Unauthenticated. Unauthenticated. CVE-2020-8243.

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CIO

JUNE 25, 2024

In fact, in a recent Palo Alto Networks survey , a staggering 95% of respondents reported experiencing browser-based attacks in the past 12 months, including account takeovers and malicious extensions. Malicious browser extensions can introduce malware, exfiltrate data, or provide a backdoor for further attacks.

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CIO

JUNE 13, 2024

The chatbot works with the Department of Defense’s Common Access Card (CAC) authentication system and can answer questions and assist with tasks such as correspondence, preparing background papers, and programming. Technology is learned by doing,” said Chandra Donelson, DAF’s acting chief data and artificial intelligence officer.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Harden configurations : Follow best practices for the deployment environment, such as using hardened containers for running ML models; applying allowlists on firewalls; encrypting sensitive AI data; and employing strong authentication. Have you ever shared sensitive work information without your employer’s knowledge? Source: “Oh, Behave!

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Tenable

APRIL 12, 2024

The attack against Microsoft began in November 2023, when Midnight Blizzard – also known as Nobelium, Cozy Bear and APT29 – compromised a legacy, non-production test account that lacked multi-factor authentication protection. Specifically, 63% of respondents said AI can potentially boost their organizations’ cybersecurity processes.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And a March 2018 report by medical cybersecurity company Merlin International found that 65 percent of health care executives lack a strategy for securing medical devices on their networks. A hard drive may contain cryptomining malware , which can slow down or cause other malfunctions on devices. ”—Dr.

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The Unit 42 Incident Response Report analyzed thousands of incidents to learn what tools and vulnerabilities attackers are focusing on. This vulnerability allowed attackers to bypass authentication altogether and execute malicious code directly on vulnerable servers. So why is a 2021 vulnerability on the 2023 top-five list?

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Kaseya

APRIL 15, 2020

Just like the coronavirus spreads from person to person, cybersecurity malware too can spread rapidly from computer to computer and network to network. Misconfiguration will drive a majority of the incidents according to the Sophos 2020 Threat Report. Mobile Malware. IoT Devices. trillion by 2026.

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CIO

JULY 17, 2023

According to the 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the majority of cyber attacks are led by organized criminals looking to disrupt business and steal data to sell. Malware Distribution: Cloud exploitation can involve hosting or distributing malware through cloud-based platforms or services.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The attack surface that todays security leaders have to defend is growing at an unprecedented rate, and the situation is particularly challenging for organizations managing critical infrastructure: almost 70% of cyber attacks in 2023 targeted critical infrastructure, according to IBMs X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2024 report.

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 21, 2023

Common vulnerabilities in enterprise applications may include unauthorized access, data leaks, malware infections, phishing attacks, or compliance violations. Additionally, enabling features such as two-factor authentication can also add an extra layer of security to protect against password-guessing attacks.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Glenn Johnstone, Vodafone NZ’s Head of ICT Practices, highlighted the findings of their Disconnection report in which 30% of those surveyed said they would move roles if their employer didn’t offer remote working. As a result, the potential for malware to become resident on home computers is increasing.”.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Fortinet reports “potential” exploitation in the wild In its advisory on February 8, Fortinet said this vulnerability is “potentially being exploited in the wild.” It has not shared any specifics about in-the-wild exploitation, nor has it shared any information about who reported the flaw as of February 9.

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Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 22, 2024

Key Insights from Unit 42’s 2024 Incident Response Report In the past year, we’ve seen threat actors making bigger moves faster to mount more sophisticated attacks against their targets. The IR Report demonstrates that these types of exploits are not anomalies. Perform continuous authentication and monitoring of communication channels.

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The Parallax

MAY 10, 2019

Google Play is an ‘order of magnitude’ better at blocking malware. Android scored the highest-possible rating in 26 of 30 categories” in Gartner’s 2019 Mobile OSs and Device Security: A Comparison of Platforms report, which evaluated Android 9 Pie, Cuthbertson said during the conference’s Tuesday keynote. How to FBI-proof your Android.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 6, 2024

We’re also seeing a surge in malware traffic, along with bogus vulnerability reports in CVE. Cloudflare’s 2024 update to its application security report states that they are seeing a substantial update in malicious traffic, which is now roughly 7% of all traffic. BOT traffic is a major contributor.

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Kaseya

DECEMBER 23, 2020

According to a report by Cybersecurity Ventures , global cybercrime costs are expected to grow by 15 percent per year over the next five years, reaching $10.5 1 priority for IT teams, as reported in the Kaseya 2020 IT Operations Survey Report. trillion USD annually by 2025, up from $3 trillion USD in 2015. Cloud-Based Threats.

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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. The report also mentioned that 71% of the respondents surveyed said that mobile devices are “very critical to their businesses” while 97% consider remote workers to be more at risk than office workers.

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Ivanti

AUGUST 3, 2021

Ransomware is a strain of malware that blocks users (or a company) from accessing their personal data or apps on infected iOS, iPadOS, and Android mobile devices, macOS laptops, Windows personal computers and servers, and Linux servers. Communications : The malware scans the contents of the SD card.

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Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 7, 2024

Executive Insights from the Unit 42 Incident Response Report An attack vector is the method an attacker uses to get access to a target environment. The 2024 Incident Response Report details the most exploited attack vectors of the past year. Using malware to steal credentials saved in applications.

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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. Worse yet, these?types types of attacks?continue

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