Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

An analysis of a crackdown on criminals' use of encrypted communications leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also: a preview of ISMG's Healthcare Security and Legal & Compliance summits, including expert insights on vendor risk management.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This important feature uses header information from established communication connections to improve overall security. An understanding of how stateful inspection works, the key pros and cons, and its use cases provides important insight into how stateful inspection can be used successfully in a security stack.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Analyzing the Email Security Landscape and exploring Emerging Threats and Trends. VIPRE Security Group’s latest report, “Email Security in 2024: An Expert Insight into Email Threats,” delves into the cutting-edge tactics and technologies embraced by cybercriminals this year. million as malicious.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The cases stem from challenges to EU Member State national security law brought in the UK, France and Belgium by privacy activists Privacy International (Case C?623/17 Privacy International Case. The Three Joined Cases. With regards to the second judgment involving the three joined cases, the CJEU assessed four specific points.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

. “Without the correct byte map, the encrypted shellcode, including all components and relevant data, cannot be correctly decrypted, making decryption and analysis of the shellcode more time-consuming for analysts.” ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” concludes the report.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Related: The security case for AR, VR AI chatbots use natural language processing, which enables them to understand and respond to human language and machine learning algorithms. Popular AI platforms Communication channels like websites, messaging apps and voice assistants are increasingly adopting AI chatbots. These tools saved 2.5

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Researchers at SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab discovered multiple issues in several security products from Fortinet, including hardcoded key and encryption for communications. This cloud communication is used for the FortiGuard Web Filter feature, FortiGuard AntiSpam feature and FortiGuard AntiVirus feature.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2021

Telegram is a legitimate service and enterprise AV engines and security solutions trust its traffic. ” reads the analysis published by CheckPoint. ” If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. The use of the popular IM service gives to the attackers multiple benefits.

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Lenny Zeltser

APRIL 19, 2020

You can now take my malware analysis and cybersecurity writing courses online in two formats at SANS Institute, depending on how you prefer to learn: OnDemand: Self-paced, recorded training with four months of access to course materials and labs. Malware Analysis. Cybersecurity Writing.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

Researchers conducted a new analysis of the Diavol ransomware and found new evidence of the link with the gang behind the TrickBot botnet. At the beginning of June, FortiEDR detected and halted a ransomware attack against one of the customers of the security firm. reads the analysis published by Fortinet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

DNS security protects the domain name system (DNS) from attackers seeking to reroute traffic to malicious sites. This article will provide an overview of DNS Security, common attacks, and how to use DNS security to prevent DNS attacks and manipulation. in the DNS cache for more efficient delivery of information to users.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

CLGs are important because they provide specialized security filtering and prevent the discovery of IP addresses and open ports on CLG-protected devices. CLGs depend on two key features, proxy capability and stateful packet inspection, to block unsolicited communication.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

However, APIs have gained traction so rapidly and deeply that not nearly enough attention has been paid to the associated security shortcomings. Many organizations, SMBs and enterprises alike, do not understand the scope and scale of their deployments of APIs, much less how to go about effectively securing their APIs. Tool limitations.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Infrastructure as a service security is a concept that assures the safety of organizations’ data, applications, and networks in the cloud. Understanding the risks, advantages, and best practices connected with IaaS security is becoming increasingly important as enterprises shift their infrastructure to the cloud.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2019

A new variant of the implements a unique protocol to communicate with Command and Control infrastructure. A new variant of the Miori botnet uses a unique protocol to communicate with C&C infrastructure, it implements a protection mechanism to access the login panel. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

To fill this gap and aid in the analysis, detection, and testing of malware, sandboxing is widely used to give organizations the setting, isolation, and security tools needed to preserve the integrity of the host network. Sandbox solutions today are compared today by their set of features to aid advanced malware analysis.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 11, 2021

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of lawmakers' grilling of Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount over his handling of the DarkSide ransomware attack. Also featured: How the FBI helped trick criminals into using an encrypted communications service that it was able to monitor.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

A sobering analysis by Cybersecurity Ventures forecasts that the global cost of ransomware attacks will reach $265 billion in 2031. • The vulnerabilities of internet security, once mostly a nuisance, have become dangerous and costly. Thus, secure implementations are critical. million to $4.24 million in 2021, according to IBM.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The idea is that they wouldn’t touch the cryptography, but instead eavesdrop on communications and systems before encryption or after decryption. I’m part of a group of cryptographers that has just published a paper discussing the security risks of such a system. (It’s We seem to have to do this every decade or so.)

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 8, 2023

Researchers have discovered malware that “can hijack a computer’s boot process even when Secure Boot and other advanced protections are enabled and running on fully updated versions of Windows.” It exploits a more than one year old vulnerability ( CVE-2022-21894 ) to bypass UEFI Secure Boot and set up persistence for the bootkit.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Application security tools and software solutions are designed to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities and threats in software applications. These tools play a vital role in ensuring the security, integrity, and confidentiality of sensitive information, such as personal data and financial records.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

The Platinum cyber espionage group uses steganographic technique to hide communications with the Command and Control Servers (C&C). Experts from Kaspersky have linked the Platinum APT group with cyber attacks involving an elaborate, and new steganographic technique used to hide communications with C2 servers.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Remote access security is critical for protecting increasingly distributed work environments, ensuring that only authorized users can access your valuable information regardless of their location. The technologies for secure remote access can range from VPNs and multi-factor authentication to more advanced access and zero trust controls.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2024

The group claims to have attacked Moscollector, a Moscow-based company, that is responsible for the construction and monitoring of underground water and sewage and communications infrastructure. ” reads the analysis published by Claroty. ” reads the analysis published by Claroty.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2020

A key malicious domain name used to control potentially thousands of computer systems compromised via the months-long breach at network monitoring software vendor SolarWinds was commandeered by security experts and used as a “killswitch” designed to turn the sprawling cybercrime operation against itself, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

GitHub has announced new features that could improve both developers’ experience and supply chain security. The “private vulnerability” reports announced at GitHub Universe 2022 will allow open-source maintainers to receive private issues from the community. Also read: Software Supply Chain Security Guidance for Developers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The tainted version of SolarWinds Orion plug-in masqueraded network traffic as the Orion Improvement Program ( OIP ) protocol, it communicates via HTTP to C2 to retrieve and execute malicious commands, dubbed “Jobs.” Now security firms sinkholed the avsvmcloud[.]com ” reads the analysis published by Symantec.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2024

Cisco Talos warned that the nation-state actor UAT4356 (aka STORM-1849) has been exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) firewalls since November 2023 to breach government networks worldwide. Cisco Talos researchers tracked this cyber-espionage campaign as ArcaneDoor.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2024

From securing everyday personal messages and the authentication of digital signatures to protecting payment information for online shopping and even guarding top-secret government data and communications—cryptography makes digital privacy possible. In modern times, cryptography has become a critical lynchpin of cybersecurity.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2024

The group focuses on internet-facing services, in at least one instance the group exploited the vulnerability CVE-2024-21887 in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN. If successful, it initiates a self-forking mechanism, constituting the sole anti-debugging/anti-analysis measure incorporated into the malware.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Orbit Chain has suffered a security breach that has resulted in the theft of more than $81 million worth of cryptocurrency. Orbit Chain is a multi-asset blockchain platform that connects various blockchains through Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC). It also hired the blockchain security company ChainLight.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

The threat actors behind the DuneQuixote campaign took steps to prevent collection and analysis the implants through the implementation of practical and well-designed evasion methods. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky. The malware achieves persistence through the COM objects hijacking technique.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2024

MITRE published more details on the recent security breach, including a timeline of the attack and attribution evidence. In April 2024, MITRE disclosed a security breach in one of its research and prototyping networks. They accessed vCenter through a compromised Ivanti appliance and communicated with multiple ESXi hosts.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2019

Experts observed an increase of the malware spreading using less-known archive types as dropper,in particular ISO image.Delphi wrapper makes analysis harder. Technical Analysis. Once executed, the malware obviously kills itself detecting the analysis machine, so we are going to investigate what are the tricks employed to stop us.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Explore some real-world instances below and discover when and how to use DLP procedures for optimal data security. Industry-specific rules: Check relevant regulations on a regular basis to verify data security compliance , and use DLP to protect sensitive data and reduce regulatory risks.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2023

Incident response frameworks and practices are detailed action plans to resolve security breaches inside a business or organization. It offers instructions for assembling an emergency response team, specifying duties, and setting up communication lines.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

PingPull, was first spotted by Unit 42 in June 2022, the researchers defined the RAT as a “difficult-to-detect” backdoor that leverages the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) for C2 communications. Experts also found PingPull variants that use HTTPS and TCP for C2 communications instead of ICMP. org over port 8443 for C2.

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