Lacework

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And the majority of this activity has been linked to the same python malware dubbed AndroxGh0st with at least one incident tied to an actor known as Xcatze. For AWS specifically, the malware scans for and parses AWS keys but also has the ability to generate keys for brute force attacks. AndroxGh0st options.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

But last week, the company was reportedly preparing for layoffs, according to Dark Reading, which first reported news of the company’s shuttering. Security testing company NSS Labs “ceased operations” last week, the company said in a notice on its website, citing impacts related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Don’t worry, reporter Kyle Wiggers (who is rounding out his first week with us) tells you all about what that is. based satellite communications provider’s service in Europe was deemed “likely the result of destructive wiper malware” that originated in Russia, we report. You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc.

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Infinidat

MARCH 20, 2025

Revisiting Herzogs Dirty Dozen: The Progress Report - Part 1 Adriana Andronescu Thu, 03/20/2025 - 08:21 I introduced Herzogs Dirty Dozen two-and-a-half years ago to shine a light on the challenges that enterprises face in their data infrastructure. Infinidat has fundamentally changed the economics of enterprise storage. [6]

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Sonatype today released a report that finds there has been a 650% year-over-year increase in supply chain attacks aimed at upstream public repositories. Cybercriminals hope to compromise these repositories by injecting malware into software components that many organizations might be using, according to the report.

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Lacework

MAY 12, 2022

Researchers industry-wide have reported opportunistic adversaries adopting this vulnerability to spread Cryptojacking ( T1496 ), and DDoS bots (Mirai). At this time, Shodan reports 23,494 publicly facing BIG IP machines on the internet at the time of this writing. Hunting for Malware. Public-Facing BIG-IP Appliances.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

APRIL 25, 2025

Claude was used to create advanced malware and push paid political agendas on social media.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

As first reported by MoneyControl , the new app, code named P92, will let users log in through their Instagram credentials. Malware hiding in the woodwork: The U.S. government on Thursday announced that it seized a website used to sell malware designed to spy on computers and cell phones, Lorenzo writes.

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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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CircleCI

JANUARY 13, 2023

This report will cover: What happened? All dates and times are reported in UTC, unless otherwise noted. To date, we have learned that an unauthorized third party leveraged malware deployed to a CircleCI engineer’s laptop in order to steal a valid, 2FA-backed SSO session. The malware was not detected by our antivirus software.

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CIO

MARCH 24, 2025

Recent reports show healthcare has endured a record wave of cyber breaches. In 2023 alone, there were 725 hacking-related breaches reported in U.S. For example, network defense and malware analysis labs show engineers how to contain ransomware outbreaks.

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Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 9, 2025

Palo Alto Networks has released Securing GenAI: A Comprehensive Report on Prompt Attacks Taxonomy, Risks and Solutions , groundbreaking research on adversarial prompt attacks targeting GenAI systems. The report reveals that leading LLMs remain highly vulnerable to prompt attacks.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Aisha reports on another big announcement on Google Maps, which launched Immersive View in those five cities. Startups and VC Kyle reports that a founder grew frustrated using standard document apps like Acrobat and Microsoft Office to print out and mark up documents. to help improve web3 marketing tools , Jacquelyn reports.

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DevOps.com

MAY 9, 2022

A research report published by Checkmarx finds the same basic malicious software developed using multiple programming languages as cyberattackers industrialize their malware development processes. The post Checkmarx Report Highlights Need for AppSec Collaboration appeared first on DevOps.com.

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The Parallax

MAY 7, 2018

Malware and antivirus software usually go together like tacos and pickles. to the journalist Martyn Williams , who specializes in reporting on North Korean technology. They also discovered that it was programmed to ignore a malware programming characteristic that even decade-old Trend Micro code would have flagged as malicious.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

billion devices reported in 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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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 27, 2025

The report found that95% of organizations have experienced an attack originating in the browser; 94% have experienced a phishing attack. The report reveals: Visibility shortcomings 64% of encrypted traffic in participating organizations goes uninspected; 65% of organizations dont have control over the data that is shared in AI tools.

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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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Ooda Loop

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant’s investigation revealed a Dutch engineer recruited by the Netherlands’ intelligence services, the AIVD, likely played a role in deploying the Stuxnet malware at an Iranian nuclear facility.

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The Parallax

MARCH 20, 2018

Grange’s team, which worked with Akamai Technologies on the report, discovered that at least 4 million Wi-Fi routers around the world employ an old Universal Plug and Play, or UPnP, configuration that “listens” to the Internet for commands. This method is similar to Tor’s “onion”-style layering.).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Haje The TechCrunch Top Story Regulators stepping in : Natasha M reports that the bank and its 17 branches were closed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. Get out while you can : Natasha M and Alex reported that VC firms started advising their portfolio companies to move money out of SVB (TC+).

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Tenable

MARCH 14, 2025

Meanwhile, Tenable did a deep dive on DeepSeeks malware-creation capabilities. The short answer: The DeepSeek R1 large language model (LLM) can provide a useful starting point for developing malware, but it requires additional prompting and debugging. Check out how to protect your org against the Medusa ransomware gang.

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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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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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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

This reporter tried to test the models on Hugging Face, which provides a frontend to run them without having to configure the code from scratch. make up) facts. But given that The Pile contains profane, lewd and otherwise fairly abrasive language, it wouldn’t be surprising if that were the case.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Martin Hron, security researcher at Avast and co-author of the report , says Torii must target a breathtaking number of devices because it is designed to work on an unusually large number of hardware systems. Botnets are malware-infected computing devices controlled as a group without the owner’s knowledge. Avast sponsors this site.).

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Mandiant security researchers have discovered that 70% of vulnerabilities that were exploited in the past year were zero-days—that is, new vulnerabilities that had not been previously reported. Kaspersky’s behavior begs the question: When does an antimalware vendor become malware? Web Videos from XOXO 2024 have been posted.

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The Parallax

MAY 14, 2019

Google Play is an ‘order of magnitude’ better at blocking malware. As long as the Android 2FA phones are free of malware, they might even be more secure than separate two-factor authentication keys, such as YubiKeys , says Aaron Cockerill, chief strategy officer at Lookout Mobile Security. READ MORE ON ANDROID SECURITY AND PRIVACY.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

On a clear day, you can see forever : Frederic reports on LatticeFlow’s latest funding round, $12 million, that it will use to eliminate computer vision blind spots. Square peg, Southeast Asia–shaped hole : Square Peg Capital closes $550 million fund for Southeast Asia, Australia and Israel, Catherine reports. Startups and VC.

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Palo Alto Networks

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Business Disruption, AI-Assisted Attacks, Insider Threats and Accelerated Intrusions on Multiple Fronts Define the New Cyberthreat Landscape Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 today released its 2025 Global Incident Response Report , revealing that 86% of major cyber incidents in 2024 resulted in operational downtime, reputational damage or financial loss.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

With $20 million in new funding, it helps fintech companies test and deploy those tweaks without a developer, Kyle reports. billion for its cloud unit over the next eight years as it launches a second cloud region in Hyderabad, Manish reports. COOOOVID : Visible launches activity-tracking platform to tackle long COVID, Paul reports.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Let’s parcel out some more newsy goodness: I’ll try a bite, at least : Meatable is a cultivated meat company, and it just showed off its first product — synthetic sausages, reports Paul. I’ll have one of those : Anita reports that crypto startup Blockdaemon is continuing its acquisition spree, this time picking up Sepior.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Writer’s note: We’re breaking from our usual formatting this week because there was a once-in-a-generation collapse of one of the biggest banks in the country.

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CIO

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting private accounts on LinkedIn and WhatsApp because they are less secure than business accounts, according to Europe cybersecurity agency Enisa’s latest threat landscape report. In the next stage, you have to click somewhere to fill in information, at which point malware slips in through the open door.

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Lacework

JUNE 7, 2022

As of this writing we have observed active exploitation by known Cloud threat malware families such as Kinsing, “Hezb”, and the Dark.IoT botnet. One interesting development was the use of a new malware host – 195.2.79.26 Several malware components were observed, the first of which was an XMRig miner installed as “Hezb”.

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