CIO

JULY 16, 2024

It stores a snapshot of your computer’s screen every couple of seconds, indexing it for recall (hence the name) whenever you might want to review it. Please forgive my skepticism, but isn’t there an entire class of malware that works by gaining control of the victim’s PC? Take the subject of this column’s screed: Microsoft Recall.

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Tenable

AUGUST 16, 2024

Meanwhile, the CSA published a paper outlining the unique risks involved in building systems that use LLMs. And get the latest on Q2’s most prevalent malware, the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware gang and CVE severity assessments! NIST has released the first encryption algorithms that can protect data against quantum attacks.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And they say it’s high time for the entire health care ecosystem, from clinicians to hospital systems to insurers, to scrub in and get to work on better protecting medical data and devices. Critical systems at heart of WannaCry’s impact. ”—Jacki Monson, chief privacy and information security officer, Sutter Health.

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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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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 a kernel-mode driver?

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Tenable

MAY 14, 2024

Important CVE-2024-30051 | Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability CVE-2024-30051 is an EoP vulnerability in the DWM Core Library in Microsoft Windows. A local attacker with a presence on a vulnerable system could exploit this vulnerability to gain SYSTEM privileges. and is rated as important.

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Kaseya

AUGUST 6, 2019

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008/R2 are reaching their end of life (EOL) in less than six months. It means that if you keep using Windows 7 and/or Windows Server 2008/R2, you will be at a huge risk of being exploited by cybercriminals if new vulnerabilities are disclosed. The Repercussions of Continued Use of Windows 7.

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ProtectWise

MAY 15, 2017

WannaCry's primary infection vector is through publicly accessible hosts running an unpatched version of Windows via the SMB protocol. Any network with hosts running a version of the Windows operating system missing the MS17-010 patches is vulnerable to WannaCry's infection mechanism. Who Created The Malware?

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Tenable

MARCH 3, 2023

Toward the end of 2022, the Royal ransomware group surged to the top of the monthly charts to overtake LockBit in November 2022, likely due to a sharp rise in attacks against organizations ahead of the holidays. Royal uses Cobalt Strike and malware such as Ursnif/Gozi to exfiltrate data.

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Tenable

JULY 25, 2019

Scanner for “BlueKeep” vulnerability and newly minted exploits for Exim and Jira incorporated into cryptocurrency mining malware. On July 24, researchers at Intezer published a blog about a new variant of the WatchBog malware. WatchBog is a “cryptocurrency mining botnet” that deploys a Monero (XMR) miner on infected systems.

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CIO

JANUARY 20, 2023

In August 2022, the French hospital Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF) was the victim of a ransomware attack that disabled medical imaging and patient admission systems. 2 Over half (51%) of all X-Ray machines had a high severity CVE (CVE-2019-11687), with around 20% running an unsupported version of Windows. Simplify operations.

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Tenable

JULY 14, 2020

Microsoft addresses 123 CVEs, including CVE-2020-1350, a wormable remote code execution vulnerability in Windows DNS Server dubbed “SIGRed.”. Included this month is a highly critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows DNS Server (CVE-2020-1350). CVE-2020-1350 | Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.

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Ivanti

APRIL 12, 2022

Attackers are exploiting the Spring4Shell vulnerability to spread Mirai Botnet malware. Attacks observed by Trend report systems configured with Spring Framework versions before 5.2.20, 5.3.18, JDK version 9 or higher and Apache Tomcat are being targeted. This vulnerability affects all Windows Operating System versions.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This month’s updates include patches for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, SQL Server, Visual Studio, and Skype for Business. CVE-2019-1458 is a high-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that occurs when the Win23k component fails to properly handle objects in memory.

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Tenable

MAY 18, 2023

The advisory details the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with the group and its corresponding malware. For defense evasion, the group disables Windows Defender and Anti-Malware Scan Interface (AMSI) using PowerShell and Windows Command Shell. and Australia.

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David Walsh

MARCH 23, 2021

Malware has been a problem for decades, one that was exacerbated by the the rise of the internet, file sharing, and digital assets. Whether it’s keyloggers or other types of malware, they’ll make your computer slow and insecure, all without you knowing. Those risks have all increased due to remote work.

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Tenable

JUNE 17, 2021

Active Directory (AD) equips businesses using Windows devices to organize IT management at the enterprise level. This centralized, standard Windows system equips IT administrators with increased control over access and security within their operations, elevating management of all network devices, domains and account users.

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Tenable

JANUARY 21, 2021

With the rise of daisy-chained cyberattacks, security teams must consider the contextual risk of each vulnerability, including its potential to be leveraged in a full system compromise. Examples of vulnerabilities leveraged in full system compromise. Faced with limited time and resources, every security team must prioritize threats.

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Prisma Clud

JUNE 20, 2023

Their expertise and diligence are indispensable alongside DevOps and security teams. A narrow window exists to address minor security incidents before they become major breaches. It must also integrate with different workload types, as well as operating systems like Linux or Windows and architectures like x64 or ARM.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 22, 2024

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.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 10, 2021

An attacker plants malware on your system that encrypts all the files, making your system useless, then offers to sell you the key you need to decrypt the files. Like most things on the internet, ransomware’s advantage is scale: The WannaCry attack infected around 230,000 systems. The concept behind ransomware is simple.

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Tenable

JULY 11, 2023

Important CVE-2023-36884 | Office and Windows HTML Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2023-36884 is a RCE vulnerability in Microsoft Windows and Office that was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 8.3 and patches are available for all supported versions of Windows. and has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JULY 2, 2024

This paper notes that it is preliminary and not yet peer-reviewed. A new Artifacts window allows interaction with Claude output. An AI system has been trained to count flowers. Facebook/Meta has developed AudioSeal , a system for watermarking AI-generated audio content. Everything runs locally. That’s creative.

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Ivanti

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Legacy cybersecurity systems – many designed over a decade ago – fail to account for the new breed of attacker capabilities and vulnerabilities – nor for the reliance on human configuration that is the Achilles heel of so much software. Threats are evolving – and accelerating Until recently, most systems had a limited "blast radius."

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Targeted sectors include communications , energy, transportation systems and water and wastewater systems. They achieve this by blending in with seemingly normal-looking traffic using living off the land (LOTL) techniques, meaning they’ll utilize an operating system’s (OS) built-in tools.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The model aims to answer natural language questions about system status and performance based on telemetry data. Google is open-sourcing SynthID, a system for watermarking text so AI-generated documents can be traced to the LLM that generated them. These are small models, designed to work on resource-limited “edge” systems.

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Ivanti

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The October Patch Tuesday lineup is predominantly a Microsoft lineup but includes an update for Adobe Acrobat and Reader ( APSB22-46 ) and is a prelude to the Oracle Quarterly CPU due to release on Tuesday, October 18th. The vulnerability affects all Windows OS versions including Windows 7 and Server 20082008 R2.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 1, 2024

We also have another important AI-enabled programming tool: Cursor is an alternative to GitHub Copilot that’s getting rave reviews. And attackers are targeting participants in GitHub projects, telling them that their project has vulnerabilities and sending them to a malware site to learn more. Want Lisp implemented in Rust macros?

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AlienVault

DECEMBER 17, 2018

In part 1 of this blog series, we analyzed malware behaviour, and, in part 2 , we learned how to detect persistence tricks used in malware attacks. Root certificates are usually pre-installed in a system by the manufacturer or by the software supply chain. System and applications trust certificates installed in the root.

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Lacework

JUNE 2, 2022

For years, Lacework has helped security teams understand what’s happening in their workloads via an agent that runs on Linux operating systems. Windows Server: New support extends runtime workload visibility and threat detection to Windows Server OS in the cloud or on-premises. . Lacework workload security capabilities.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Plus, malware used in fake browser-update attacks ballooned in Q3. Specifically, the program now offers CISA’s “ Protective Domain Name System (DNS) Resolver ” service, which is designed to help prevent systems from connecting to malicious domains. And much more! 1 - CISA: Adopt memory safe programming languages, pronto!

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Altexsoft

JULY 3, 2019

In addition, IoT devices are often configured to ‘phone home’, increasing the time window for cyber-attacks, and to collect far more data than they need to perform their core functions. It can also involve transmitting raw data in the form of GPS data, system logs, and other reporting data. Physical Security.

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Kaseya

APRIL 20, 2020

While Zoom is a SaaS application, there are vulnerabilities in the Windows and macOS clients that run on the user’s computer. Microsoft does a good job of providing automatic updates to Windows but, of course, it doesn’t include updates for other companies’ applications. Also, patches need to be tested before they are widely deployed.

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Palo Alto Networks

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Our innovative Incident Management feature, introduced in 2019, alleviates alert fatigue by grouping related alerts from multiple data sources into incidents, cutting the number of individual events to review by 98%. In Cortex XDR 2.7, we’ve taken Incident Management to the next level with the introduction of incident scoring.

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Firemon

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Once the malware enters your network, it can ferret around and hold assets in other parts of your organization hostage. Similar to the way FireMon’s Cyber Asset Management solution provides this for on-premise resources, DisruptOps can identify systems, users, data, applications, and entities within your cloud network.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

According to both Mursch and researcher Kevin Beaumont , attackers that have scanned for and exploited CVE-2021-26084 have been installing the XMRig cryptocurrency miner on vulnerable Confluence servers on both Windows and Linux. Identifying affected systems.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JULY 5, 2023

MIT Technology Review provides a good summary of key points in the EU’s draft proposal for regulating AI. It is designed to generate synthetic training data for AI systems. Mechanical Turk is often used to generate or label training data for AI systems. They have not released an open source version.

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