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Window Snyder’s new startup Thistle Technologies raises $2.5M seed to secure IoT devices

TechCrunch

Worse, many device manufacturers make no effort to fix security flaws, while others simply leave out the software update mechanisms needed to deliver patches altogether. Security veteran Window Snyder thinks there is a better way. ” He added: “Window has so many of the qualities we look for in founders.

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Unit 42 Discovers First Known Malware Targeting Windows Containers

Palo Alto Networks

The Unit 42 cybersecurity consulting group published research on the first known malware targeting Windows containers, which was discovered by Unit 42 researcher Daniel Prizmant and named Siloscape. Diagram of Windows container (source: Microsoft). Containers provide an easy way to run applications in the cloud.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Warns of Global Spear-Phishing Threat, While OWASP Releases AI Security Resources

Tenable

Meanwhile, cybercriminals have amplified their use of malware for fake software-update attacks. That’s the main takeaway from the Center for Internet Security’s list of the 10 most prevalent malware used during the third quarter. Collectively, they accounted for 77% of the quarter’s malware infections.

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SafeBreach discloses vulnerabilities in Avast, AVG, Avira

The Parallax

Both companies issued software patches in September. Exploiting the vulnerabilities in Avast and AVG’s antivirus products , which are made by Avast Security following a 2016 acquisition , as well as in Avira ’s Launcher and Software Updater, requires a hacker to have administrator privileges.

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Hidden inside Dark Caracal’s espionage apps: Old tech

The Parallax

Its success was predicated not on “zero-day” vulnerabilities or new forms of malicious software, but rather on older, known malware delivered via an all-too-familiar method: phishing. The malware included hacked versions of end-to-end encrypted communication apps Signal and WhatsApp. So these installations wouldn’t be blocked.

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Radar Trends to Watch: November 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

It will become increasingly necessary as software incorporates AI and IT teams need to become specialists in AI infrastructure. Microsoft has begun a project that will make Linux’s eBPF available on Windows. Windows eBPF will be bytecode compatible with Linux. Microsoft sees GenAIOps as a “paradigm shift” for IT. Python 3.13

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From Bugs to Breaches: 25 Significant CVEs As MITRE CVE Turns 25

Tenable

CVE-2010-2568: Windows Shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploited Zero-Day Local Stuxnet High 2010 Why it’s significant: Regarded as one of the most sophisticated cyberespionage tools ever created, Stuxnet was designed to target SCADA systems in industrial environments to reportedly sabotage Iran's nuclear program.