The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Spirent Communications , an 82-year-old British supplier of network performance testing equipment, recently decided to branch into cybersecurity services by tackling this dilemma head on. We’ve set up honeypots around the world, which we use to harvest and categorize malware.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2021

Security experts are now trying to alert and assist these victims before malicious hackers launch what many refer to with a mix of dread and anticipation as “Stage 2,” when the bad guys revisit all these hacked servers and seed them with ransomware or else additional hacking tools for crawling even deeper into victim networks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2019

Security experts at Sophos have detected a wave of attacks targeting Windows servers that are running MySQL databases with the intent of delivering the GandCrab ransomware. Sophos researchers have observed a wave of attacks targeting Windows servers that are running MySQL databases, threat actors aim at delivering the GandCrab ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

In the recent case of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack , the Department of Justice and FBI were able to recover a majority of the crypto-payment made to the DarkSide ransomware group. While cybersecurity trends like zero trust push the focus inward, organizations must always consider endpoint vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

US CISA added critical Apache RocketMQ flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Ragnar Locker gang leaks data stolen from the Israel’s Mayanei Hayeshua hospital North Korea-linked threat actors target cybersecurity experts with a zero-day Zero-day in Cisco ASA and FTD is actively exploited in ransomware attacks Nation-state actors (..)

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Training providers offer extensive cybersecurity courses just to mitigate the high likelihood that employees will put your infrastructure in danger. To reduce human error episodes: Host cybersecurity training sessions every quarter. Have regular conversations about cybersecurity in manager and employee one-on-one meetings.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

or specialized tools to deliver obfuscation defenses such as: Honeypots: Provide tempting targets for attackers that contain no valid information as one of several similar deception technologies to trigger alerts for early attack detection. Cybersecurity Training Cybersecurity training ensures effective controls throughout the organization.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Related Cybersecurity Threats Many cybersecurity threats indirectly affect networks through related assets. Deception technology using honeypots and similar subterfuge can trigger proactive alerts of both hackers and authorized users that might be attempting to perform malicious actions. or network traffic.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Network security is an umbrella term for all facets of your network’s cybersecurity posture, with an emphasis on developing and using policies, procedures, best practices and tools that safeguard every piece of your network’s overall infrastructure.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

These attacks focus on financially-rewarding exploitation such as cryptojacking , botnet proliferation, business email compromise, or ransomware. For example, the Cuba ransomware gang exploited ProxyShell and ProxyLogon vulnerabilities in Windows exchange servers to plant backdoors into the exchange server and deliver additional malware.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Antivirus software, also called virus protection software, is likely one of the best-known types of cybersecurity software, with 77 percent of adults using it on their computer and 24 percent on their mobile devices. DDoS protection Challenge tests Honeypots for bad bots. In fact, about 81 percent of malicious files came through email.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

As technologies advance, and cyber threats with them, deception has become a big part of the 21st century cybersecurity battle. Decoys such as fake hosts or honeypots are hosted in a single area on-premises or in the cloud and are projected across the enterprise network, appearing as realistic local assets. Key Differentiators.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) : In today’s ransomware-riddled environment, two-factor authentication should also be considered a minimum requirement for all forms of remote access. Email Security: Many attacks escape network security detection through malicious emails, such as phishing , business email compromise (BEC), and ransomware.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

“In the tech-heavy, geek-speak world of cybersecurity, these sorts of infographics and maps are popular because they promise to make complicated and boring subjects accessible and sexy,” I wrote in a January 2016 story about Norse’s implosion. By 2014 it was throwing lavish parties at top Internet security conferences.

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