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10 February 2023
The lack of vendor patches may be compounding cyber risk for industrial asset owners in critical sectors like transportation and utilities. Even when they’re available, security updates in these environments aren’t always easy to apply.
10 February 2023
Mass events like the Super Bowl can become targets for cyberattacks. Security leaders need to plan ahead to keep entertainment, staff and guests safe.
10 February 2023
Nisha Holt is Check Point’s Head of Americas Channel Sales. She joined Check Point in 2020 and served as the Head of National Channel partners. Nisha has been in cyber security for over 20 years with a concentrated focus on helping organizations grow through partnerships, alliances and other varying routes to market. In this dynamic […]
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10 February 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Organizations leverage cloud computing to reduce compute costs and to rapidly provision new computing resources for the purpose of supporting evolving business needs. Cloud-based technologies provide opportunities to go-to-market quickly, allowing enterprises to reach stakeholders and customers faster than ever before. Across the past 10 years, cloud computing has transformed from into a […]
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10 February 2023
Four different rogue packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) have been found to carry out a number of malicious actions, including dropping malware, deleting the netstat utility, and manipulating the SSH authorized_keys file.
The packages in question are aptx, bingchilling2, httops, and tkint3rs, all of which were collectively downloaded about 450 times before they were taken down. While
10 February 2023
Attack chains mounted by the hacking crew entail the exploitation of known security flaws in Apache Log4j, SonicWall, and TerraMaster NAS appliances to gain initial access, followed by reconnaissance, lateral movement, and ransomware deployment.
10 February 2023
The goal to offer newer methods around the vulnerability management process came after Bettini ran the Tenable research team, where he led developers to write detection code for all Tenable products but faced prioritization challenges.
10 February 2023
The top countries affected by tech support scams are the United States, Brazil, Japan, Canada, and France. These scams typically start with a pop-up window claiming a malware infection and urging the person to call a helpline for resolution.
10 February 2023
Keely Wilkins is an Evangelist with the Office of the CTO as well as a Pre-Sales Security Engineer in Virginia. She has worked in the technology industry for nearly thirty years, holds an MS of Cybersecurity and a variety of certifications. Keely is currently studying toward a Master of Legal Studies specializing in Cybersecurity Law […]
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10 February 2023
Single vendor shops have also emerged as an alternative to large marketplaces, allowing vendors to save on the fees that would otherwise go to the admins of markets like Hydra.
10 February 2023
The latest sanctions mean the seven individuals had their assets frozen, travel bans imposed, and are barred from transacting with U.S. organizations. That also bars Americans from paying any ransom to the sanctioned entities.
10 February 2023
The attackers were able to access and disable some of the school’s systems, and officials disconnected part of the network that were affected before hiring cybersecurity specialists to help with the response.
10 February 2023
The smartphones analyzed by the researchers were observed sending data to the device vendor and the Chinese mobile network operators (e.g., China Mobile and China Unicom), even though they do not provide any service to the device.
10 February 2023
A single malware author published several packages with entirely different names but with similar codes designed to launch attacks. Authors can execute attacks with a single python script, such as stealing sensitive data using webhooks on Discord.
10 February 2023
State-backed hackers from North Korea are conducting ransomware attacks against healthcare and critical infrastructure facilities to fund illicit activities, U.S. and South Korean cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned in a joint advisory.
The attacks, which demand cryptocurrency ransoms in exchange for recovering access to encrypted files, are designed to support North Korea's
10 February 2023
Reddit says they learned of the breach after the employee self-reported the incident to the company. Investigating the incident Reddit says the stolen data includes limited contact information for company contacts and current and former employees.
10 February 2023
The security firm reports seeing Portuguese used as a language in the JavaScript code comments and variables, while the root page of the blogger domain mimics a Brazilian dessert business.
10 February 2023
If a user enters any of the bogus domain names in a browser, it will be redirected to a real URL shortening service: Bitly, Cuttly, or ShortUrl.at, which makes it look like they are just alternative domains for the well-known services.
10 February 2023
Here are three of the worst breaches, attacker tactics and techniques of 2022, and the security controls that can provide effective, enterprise security protection for them.
#1: 2 RaaS Attacks in 13 Months
Ransomware as a service is a type of attack in which the ransomware software and infrastructure are leased out to the attackers. These ransomware services can be purchased on the dark web from
10 February 2023
The threat actor targets victims using phishing emails that include Microsoft Publisher (.pub) attachments with malicious macros, URLs linking to .pub files with macros, or PDFs containing URLs that download dangerous JavaScript files.