The Parallax

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

An Apple vulnerability that allowed anybody to access a Mac running the latest version of its operating system became widely known on Tuesday. Although Apple fixed the problem, the severity of the bug worries independent security researchers. Malware writers love this because it’s so stable.”. macos 10.13

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The Parallax

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But first, tech giants and telecommunications network providers will have to fix its major security flaws, researchers say. Google Play is an ‘order of magnitude’ better at blocking malware. ”—Karsten Nohl, CEO, Security Research Labs. Vodafone told The Parallax in an emailed statement that it is “aware” of the research.

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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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CTOvision

APRIL 7, 2014

in Advanced Research Contracts For its Labs Division. In the first quarter of 2014, the company’s advanced research division—Invincea Labs—secured $8.1M Invincea is the premier innovator in advanced malware threat detection, breach prevention and forensic threat intelligence. – bg. Videos: [link]. Webinar Series: [link].

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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. The impact extended far beyond local systems. Researchers found it trivial to identify the flaw and develop proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for it.

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The Parallax

MAY 18, 2018

But even locking down a long-criticized Android privacy flaw won’t help the operating system beat its biggest security flaw: its own success. Google Play is an ‘order of magnitude’ better at blocking malware. Android P is also the first major operating system ever to encrypt Internet address lookups by default.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Organizations that follow the principle of least privilege can improve their security posture by significantly reducing their attack surface and risk of malware spread. In the early days of Windows operating systems up through Windows XP, almost any program a user would launch would have administrator-level privileges.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 11, 2024

We are incredibly proud of our world-class threat research and engineering teams for delivering exceptional endpoint security, empowering our customers to stay ahead of adversaries, like those simulated in this evaluation. These research highlights the evolution of these groups, showcasing their increasing sophistication and aggression.

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Tenable

APRIL 20, 2021

Researchers at NCCGroup published technical advisories in October 2020 for both flaws. For CVE-2020-8243, the researchers detail how an attacker could exploit the flaw to gain arbitrary code execution privileges on the underlying operating system by injecting a backdoored template file.

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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. Mobile Malware. Mobile malware is malicious software that is designed to specifically target mobile phone operating systems. 5G-to-Wi-Fi Security Vulnerabilities.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 28, 2015

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that grew the company’s portfolio in isolation, containerization and detection techniques for protecting operating systems from targeted attacks. 8,935,773 for “Malware Detector.”. Hundreds of malware forensic analysts are now using Invincea Research Edition. Linked In: [link].

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CIO

JANUARY 20, 2023

For example, according to research from Unit 42, 75% of infusion pumps have unpatched vulnerabilities. 3 Unit 42 research also found that 83% of ultrasound, MRI, and CT scanners run on an end-of-life operating system. 4 Those operating systems have known vulnerabilities that can potentially be exploited.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

for end-user organizations: Update software, including operating systems, applications and firmware, and prioritize patching CVEs included in CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, especially those listed in the report. and the U.S. There are currently more than 100 Benchmarks for 25-plus vendor product families.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

They achieve this via several means, but one of the most common is via phishing, which typically involves convincing someone to download a piece of malware from a legitimate-looking email that will then gather login data and other sensitive info that can give the criminals access to much more within the organisation.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Researchers are building large natural language models, potentially the size of GPT-3, to decode the “speech” of whales. a threat to privacy, or a valuable academic research tool? Facebook AI Research has created a set of first-person (head-mounted camera) videos called Ego4D for training AI. through trial and error.

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ProtectWise

MAY 15, 2017

Any network with hosts running a version of the Windows operating system missing the MS17-010 patches is vulnerable to WannaCry's infection mechanism. The patches for Microsoft (currently supported) operating systems were released on March 14, 2017 following the Shadow Brokers leak. Who Created The Malware?

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Tenable

APRIL 8, 2021

Recent research has borne out that the odds of a small or medium-sized business (SMB) undergoing a cyberattack or data breach are more than 50-50: About 66% of SMBs experienced at least one cyberattack in 2019. Say a malware strain entered an industrial control system (ICS) while it wasn't connected to the company's overall network.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Fixmo SafeWatch is designed to fill that void, giving individuals the tools they need to secure and protect their personal information, and guard against the increasingly common malware targeting mobile operating systems. Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware and safe web browsing in partnership with Kaspersky Lab.

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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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Tenable

MARCH 5, 2021

The term "vulnerability" isn't synonymous with "malware" or "virus”: It simply means any weakness within your network that can be exploited. Vulnerabilities can be errors in application coding, unpatched flaws in the operating systems of hosts on the network, devices on the network with insufficient security measures or other complications.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2021

AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru was fired from Google. The attack came through malware planted in a security product from SolarWinds. Operating Systems. We see new programming languages almost on a daily basis, but new operating systems are rare. AI, ML, and Data. This could be an important event.

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Lacework

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

James CondonDirector of Research, Lacework Labs Each month we take a look at a malicious Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) file, the common executable file format for Unix and Unix-like Operating Systems, and share details about the sample. In this edition of ELF of the Month, we take a look at a Linux DDoS sample […]

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 6, 2023

AI LMSYS ORG (Large Model Systems Organization), a research cooperative between Berkeley, UCSD, and CMU, has released ELO ratings of large language models, based on a competitive analysis. Data OpenSafely is an open source platform that allows researchers to access electronic health records securely and transparently.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 4, 2014

operating system platform support, 32-bit and 64-bit systems. In June 2013, Invincea became the first advanced malware threat protection technology to ship straight from the factory on all Dell commercial devices under the brand name of Dell Data Protection | Protected Workspace. The FreeSpace 4.0 FreeSpace 4.0

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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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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Malvertising is increasingly being deployed by threat actors to spread malware, including ransomware and scams, and redirect users from legitimate websites to phishing and exploit kit–hosting sites. Notable Examples: In December 2016, ESET researchers identified the ‘ Stegano ’ campaign (which dates back to 2014).

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Prisma Clud

JUNE 20, 2023

It must also integrate with different workload types, as well as operating systems like Linux or Windows and architectures like x64 or ARM. Its defenses include advanced threat protection, sophisticated attack prevention, malware analysis and ML-based behavioral modeling. cryptominers, reverse shells, lateral movement, etc.)

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Lacework

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Editor’s note: This article serves as a summary of the content presented by Cloud Security Researcher Tareq Alkhatib during his session at ATT&CKCON 4.0. Every instruction ever executed on a modern operating system is executed using a “valid account.”

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Tenable

MARCH 29, 2023

As of March 29, based on what has been shared publicly by researchers, the following versions of the 3CX desktop apps are considered to be affected: Operating System Version Filename SHA256 (Installer) Windows 18.12.407 3cxdesktopapp-18.12.407.msi Do we know which versions of the 3CX desktop apps are vulnerable?

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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

Jailbreaking increases the risk of downloading malware. After threat actors have gained initial access to a host, they typically perform a series of steps, including analyzing the host operating system and delivering a malicious payload to the host. Financial Malware and Cryptomining Protection.

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CTOvision

APRIL 15, 2015

1] Today, Invincea Advanced Endpoint Protection 5 becomes the first unified advanced threat protection solution to contain targeted attacks, identify existing compromises and re-establish control by eradicating malware – all with a single small-footprint integrated agent. The company is venture capital-backed and based in Fairfax, VA.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Excerpts in this thread: "Microsoft security researchers recently discovered a sophisticated attack where an adversary inserted malicious code into a supply chain development process. New Blog from us at FireEye: Writeup of UNC2452, a highly sophisticated attacker who distributed malware via a software supply chain attack.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

How fast does the system return results? Which hardware, operating systems, browsers, and their versions does the software run on? Compatibility defines how a system can co-exist with another system in the same environment. Define specific threats that you want your system to be protected from.

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Tenable

AUGUST 7, 2024

Kernel-mode drivers are critical yet risky components of the Windows operating system. Windows is an operating system that, over its 40-plus years of history, has developed more than a few arcane components that are a mystery to many systems administrators. What is Tenable doing to help mitigate this risk?

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Altexsoft

JUNE 2, 2020

The same Norton research found that it can take companies, on average, 196 days to identify a data breach. You can use regression to predict system calls of operating systems, and then identify anomalies by comparing the prediction to an actual call. Hackers also use AI —to improve and enhance their malware.

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Ivanti

JULY 12, 2022

Risk-based prioritization methods take into account known exploited, appearances in malware and ransomware and if an exploit is trending into account helping to more effectively reduce risk. Many expected it to be disabled or uninstalled from those systems which are no longer supported. The resolution is also not simple.

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