The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania observed that “nowhere is the workforce-skills gap more pronounced than in cybersecurity.”. Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that there will be 3.5 This additional data analysis need further strains limited IT security resources. Growing need. About the essayst : Gary S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

. “We have performed an analysis of the affected system and associated data to determine whether your information was potentially impacted. Based on that analysis, we have determined that certain of your information was included in those files.” reads the report published by Emsisoft. percent and 26.0 reported Resecurity.

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Data Matters

MARCH 28, 2022

See 45 CFR 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A)-(B): Implementation Specification: Risk Analysis (required), Implementation Specification: Risk Management (required); see also 45 CFR 164.304 (definition of “Availability”). The Bill is set for review for the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 45 CFR 164.308(a)(5)(i).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

For a more detailed analysis, a deeper penetration testing would be required,” Cybernews researchers noted. UTEL is a private Mexican university for online education founded in 2008. Due to the sensitive nature of our cybersecurity precautions, the university was otherwise unable to provide further comment.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s note: I recently had the chance to participate in a discussion about the overall state of privacy and cybersecurity with Erin Kapczynski, OneRep’s senior vice president of B2B marketing. How did you first get interested in cybersecurity as a career? Erin: So, let’s get started. What drew you to this field?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Technology reviews can be a temptingly easy way to gain insight into the often impenetrable world of enterprise cybersecurity products, but you need to know how to use them. Organization type: corporate, education, utility, non-profit, government International regions: Asia, South America, North America, etc.

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 19, 2023

October 18, 2023, the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) released a joint guide, Phishing Guidance: Stopping the Attack Cycle at Phase One.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2021

ChaChi has been first observed in the wild in the first half of 2020, but cybersecurity experts underestimated it. The malware was recently employed in attacks against large US schools and education organizations. . The name ChaChi comes from two key components of the malware, Cha shell and Chi sel.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2023

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The vulnerability is an Integer overflow in the Skia graphics library, the issue was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on April 12, 2023.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Horizon3 security researchers have released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit and technical analysis for the critical authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2022-22972 affecting multiple VMware products. VMware did not provide technical details about the flaw, then Horizon3 researchers performed an analysis of the patch. .

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

” Peter, who spoke candidly about the attack on condition of anonymity, said the FBI told him to contact a cybersecurity consulting firm in New Jersey called Unit 221B , and specifically its founder — Lance James. Memory analysis gave us about a 5-minute window after files were encrypted to retrieve this public key.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2023

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Chrome and macOS vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The vulnerability was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-04-11. CVE-2023-2033 – Google Chromium V8 Engine Type Confusion Vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at the cybersecurity firm Assetnote. “From our analysis of WS_FTP, we found that there are about 2.9k Most of these online assets belong to large enterprises, governments and educational institutions.” All versions of WS_FTP Server are affected by these vulnerabilities.”

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

With the largest concentration of cybersecurity expertise –– the “oil” — in the world, Maryland is fast changing from the Old Line State into “Cybersecurity Valley.” The foundation of Silicon Valley was set, and today comparable technology development pieces are being laid in Maryland on the cybersecurity front.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2023

The vulnerability was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-04-11. Reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-04-11” reads the advisory published by Google. The vulnerability is a Type Confusion issue that resides in the JavaScript engine V8.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

The vulnerability is an Integer overflow in the Skia graphics library, the issue was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on April 12, 2023. Reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-04-12 [$1000][ 1430644 ] Medium CVE-2023-2137: Heap buffer overflow in sqlite.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. The average cost of a breach is $3.6

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2023

The CVE-2023-26083 flaw in the Arm Mali GPU driver is chained with other issues to install commercial spyware, as reported by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) in a recent report. US CISA has added Veritas Backup Exec flaws, which were exploited in ransomware attacks, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2023

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two flaws in iPhones, Macs, and iPads to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Both vulnerabilities were reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group and Donncha Ó Cearbhaill of Amnesty International’s Security Lab.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

FBI and CISA published a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to warn of Rhysida ransomware attacks against organizations across multiple industry sectors. The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2023

Both vulnerabilities were reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group and Donncha Ó Cearbhaill of Amnesty International’s Security Lab. On April 10, 2023, US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the two vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. iPadOS 16.4.1,

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

Cybersecurity researchers from VulnCheck have developed a new exploit for the recently disclosed critical flaw in PaperCut servers, tracked as CVE-2023-27350 (CVSS score: 9.8), that bypasses all current detections. process creation analysis), log file analysis, and Network signatures. ” states VulnCheck.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

According to government experts, the Royal ransomware attacks targeted numerous critical infrastructure sectors including, manufacturing, communications, healthcare and public healthcare (HPH), and education. In May, multiple cybersecurity experts spotted a new ransomware family called BlackSuit, including Palo Alto Unit42 experts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added nine new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. CISA has added nine flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, including bugs exploited by commercial spyware on mobile devices. CISA orders federal agencies to fix this flaw by April 20, 2023.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

The experts focused their analysis on devising attack techniques to break cloud isolation by bypassing the security boundaries implemented by cloud providers and gaining access to other customers’ sensitive data. ” reads the analysis. ” reads the advisory published by Wiz.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It operates in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language; encouraging cultural, scientific, technological and educational co-operation with the United Kingdom.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2022

While such PoCs are usually meant for educational purposes only, researchers found that 4,893 repositories out of 47,300 examined “have symptoms of malicious content,” which represents a bit more than 10% of all PoCs analyzed. Also read: Cybersecurity Agencies Release Guidance for PowerShell Security. Cobalt Strike ).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

” reads the analysis published by ESET. ESET researchers added that the analysis of recent attacks revealed similarities between artifacts used in the Dream Job campaign and those employed as part of the 3CX supply chain attack. “This could cause the file to run when double-clicked instead of opening it with a PDF viewer.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

” reads the analysis published by CheckPoint. ” continues the analysis. The ransomware uniquely spawns processes, running them in SUSPEND mode and giving out falsified arguments to harden analysis and remediation efforts. What’s even more noteworthy is that the Rorschach ransomware is highly customizable.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

According to a joint report published in January 2021 by security firms Advanced-intel and HYAS, Ryuk operators earned, at the time of publishing the analysis, more than $150 million worth of Bitcoin from ransom paid by their victims.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

The company received two vulnerability reports from the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro ) for high/critical severity security issues in PaperCut MF/NG. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. ” The CVE-2023-27350 (CVSS score – 9.8) Last week, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The Royal group began reconnaissance activity in April 2023, and the analysis of system log data dates the beginning of the surveillance operations on April 7, 2023. The City immediately initiated mitigation efforts after the discovery of the attack and it started restoring its services with the help of external cybersecurity experts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

Once gained access to the server, the threat actors deploy malware that is tracked by cybersecurity firm AhnLab as CLR Shell. ” The analysis of the log from AhnLab’s ASD shows the MS-SQL process sqlservr.exe installing Trigona under the name svcservice.exe. . ” reads the report published by AhnLab.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns of a North Korea-linked cyberespionage group tracked as ARCHIPELAGO. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG. In one case, the group posed as a journalist for a South Korean news agency and sent benign emails with an interview request to North Korea experts.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

The company did not disclose details about the attack, it launched an investigation into the incident with the help of external cybersecurity experts. As part of our security protocol, BITMARCK then took customer and internal systems offline and carried out an impact analysis.” “BITMARCK has identified a cyber attack.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

The company received two vulnerability reports from the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro for high/critical severity security issues in PaperCut MF/NG. The cybersecurity firm Horizon3 disclosed details of the flaw along with a PoC exploit code for CVE-2023-27350. ” The CVE-2023-27350 (CVSS score – 9.8)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

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