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Docker Under Siege: Cybercriminals Compromise Honeypots to Ramp Up Attacks

Dark Reading

Cloud containers are increasingly part of the cybercrime playbook, with researchers flagging ongoing scanning for Docker weaknesses along with rapid exploitation to infect systems with coin-miners, denial-of-service tools, and ransomware.

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MY TAKE: Why speedy innovation requires much improved cyber hygiene, cloud security

The Last Watchdog

Organizations are increasingly outsourcing IT workloads to cloud service providers and looking to leverage IoT systems. These containers can be spun up by the hundreds, in a moment’s notice, on a virtual cloud server — and then taken down just as swiftly. Speed is what digital transformation is all about.

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Tourists Give Themselves Away by Looking Up. So Do Most Network Intruders.

Krebs on Security

Security experts say this same tourist dynamic is a dead giveaway in virtually all computer intrusions that lead to devastating attacks like data theft and ransomware, and that more organizations should set simple virtual tripwires that sound the alarm when authorized users and devices are spotted exhibiting this behavior.

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New Redis miner Migo uses novel system weakening techniques

Security Affairs

One of the honeypots used by Cado was targeted by an attack originating from the IP 103[.]79[.]118[.]221 Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – ransomware, miner) ” reads the report published by Cado Security. ” The main Migo payload (/tmp/.migo)

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 432 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Police dismantled bulletproof hosting service provider Lolek Hosted Python URL parsing function flaw can enable command execution UK govt contractor MPD FM leaks employee passport data Power Generator in South Africa hit with DroxiDat and Cobalt Strike The Evolution of API: From Commerce to Cloud Gafgyt botnet is targeting EoL Zyxel routers Charming (..)

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SAP systems are targeted within 72 hours after updates are released

Security Affairs

“Observed exploitation could lead in many cases to full control of the unsecured SAP application, bypassing common security and compliance controls, and enabling attackers to steal sensitive information, perform financial fraud or disrupt mission-critical business processes by deploying ransomware or stopping operations. .

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Apache Log4j Zero Day Exploit Puts Large Number of Servers at Severe Risk

eSecurity Planet

The software is used by both enterprise applications as well as cloud-based services, and the vulnerability could have wide effects on enterprises, according to security professionals. They wrote that many services are vulnerable to the exploit, including cloud services like Apple iCloud and Steam and applications like Minecraft.

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