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Experts spotted first-ever crypto mining campaign leveraging Kubernetes RBAC

Security Affairs

Experts warn of a large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control ( RBAC ). Cloud security firm Aqua discovered a large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control ( RBAC ) to create backdoors and run miners.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Endpoint: Enables access for human users and computer services and commonly includes PCs, laptops, Internet of Things (IoT), and operational technology (OT). Security Elements Security elements protect each element within the network, network access, and the data transmissions. or segregated as cloud or network attached storage (NAS).

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What is Network Security? Definition, Threats & Protections

eSecurity Planet

Despite the rapid evolution of what constitutes the users, assets, and connections, the fundamentals of networking security remain the same: block external threats, protect internal network communications, monitor the network for internal and external threats, and ensure that users only access authorized parts of the network.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Incident Response in the Cloud

ForAllSecure

And some of those are, you know, one, your ability to remotely access the data you need and quickly. But if you know what you're doing it is you can get access to data relatively quickly. And those credentials, actually potentially have access to the underlying cloud environment to service systems and things like that.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

Basically, in Child Exploitation cases, criminals exchange photos of underaged individuals and/or even sell access to them, which is human trafficking. All those exercises, the honeypot or honeynet challenges I think that's what they were called in. Yeah, they were using, you know, whatever means they could to get access to things.

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