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

Tenable

Background Cloud cryptomining has become an emerging trend in recent years, powered by the scalability and flexibility of cloud platforms. One of the most common cryptomining threats for cloud environments is the Kinsing malware. The Kinsing malware uses different locations to stay undetected and hides itself as a system file.

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Mitigating Advanced Threats with Scalable and Automated Malware Analysis: An interview of Chad Loeven and Mike Hylton

CTO Vision

Scalable automated malware analysis has become a critical component of enterprise defense. When properly implemented it can be key to mitigating malware threats that otherwise bypass perimeter defenses.

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Harnessing AI to Strengthen OT Security Against Modern Cyber Threats

Palo Alto Networks

While 74% of OT attacks originate from IT, with ransomware being the top concern, AI is accelerating the sophistication, scalability and speed of these threats. At the same time, AIs capabilities are being exploited by cyber adversaries to execute faster, more sophisticated and highly scalable attacks.

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Is Your Browser Ground Zero for Cyberattacks?

Palo Alto Networks

They also empower companies with detailed control to prevent data loss, mitigate risks from malware and phishing, and enforce data loss prevention (DLP) policies. SASE delivers secure, seamless access to applications and data, regardless of user location, enabling efficient and scalable hybrid work and cloud adoption.

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What is Intrusion Detection System (IDS) – Working, Types, Best Tools

The Crazy Programmer

For instance, it will notice when a host has been infected with malware and tries to spread the malware across the network. An Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection System (AIDS) is designed to pinpoint unknown cybersecurity attacks such as novel malware attacks. It will compare the attacks against an established baseline.

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO

1 The rapid migration to the public cloud comes with numerous benefits, such as scalability, cost-efficiency, and enhanced collaboration. It is estimated by the end of 2023, 31% of organizations expect to run 75% of their workloads 2 in the cloud. 3 We have seen an increase of 15% in cloud security breaches as compared to last year.

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AI and automation will play an increasing role in technology

CIO

It’s also been flagged as a risk: cybersecurity companies have identified bad actors using ChatGPT to create malware. The very success of capabilities like those on ChatGPT are based on highly scalable networks connecting thousands of accelerators. That’s usually a sign that the use of an application has become widespread.