The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2021

As digital transformation kicks into high gear, it’s certainly not getting any easier to operate IT systems securely, especially for small- and medium-sized businesses. Just as quickly, other lax security practices became the order of the day. There are a lot of moving parts to modern IT systems.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in August 2020. ” reads the report published by Kaspersky.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2023

Automated patch management can help prevent security breaches by automatically identifying, downloading, testing, and delivering software and firmware updates to devices and applications through the use of specialized software tools. How Automated Patch Management Works Patch management is one of the most important aspects of cybersecurity.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Urgent patching and prompt updates can protect systems from unauthorized access, data breaches, and potential exploitation by threat actors. Organizations must prioritize implementing effective security measures and conducting frequent audits. Attackers were seen attempting to disable security plug-ins.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

But this also opens up a sprawling array of fresh security gaps that threat actors are proactively probing and exploiting. There’s a glut of innovative security solutions, to be sure, and no shortage of security frameworks designed to help companies mitigate cyber risks. However, this is overkill for many, if not most, SMBs.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

One of the promising cybersecurity trends that I’ve been keeping an eye on is this: SOAR continues to steadily mature. Security orchestration, automation and response, or SOAR, is a fledgling security technology stack that first entered the cybersecurity lexicon about six years ago. But that hasn’t been enough.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

US and Japanese intelligence, law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies warn of a China-linked APT, tracked as BlackTech (aka Palmerworm, Temp.Overboard, Circuit Panda, and Radio Panda), that planted backdoor in Cisco router firmware to access multinational companies’ networks. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. In addition, 95 percent of survey respondents confirmed that they are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. What is cloud security?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2022

I had the chance to discuss these findings last week at Black Hat USA 2022, with John Shier, senior security advisor at Sophos, a next-generation cybersecurity leader with a broad portfolio of managed services, software and hardware offerings. Security teams face a daunting challenge. Remediate breaches more comprehensively.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 9, 2020

based cybersecurity firm Hold Security , KrebsOnSecurity contacted the office of Florence’s mayor to alert them that a Windows 10 system in their IT environment had been commandeered by a ransomware gang. Nestled in the northwest corner of Alabama, Florence is home to roughly 40,000 residents. Image: Florenceal.org.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The City of Dallas revealed that the Royal ransomware gang that hit the city system in May used a stolen account. In May 2023, a ransomware attack hit the IT systems at the City of Dallas , Texas. To prevent the threat from spreading within the network, the City shut down the impacted IT systems. ” reads the report.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This scenario seems smart, but is it secure? There’s just one problem…these massive, radical, interconnected technology systems also raise serious privacy and security concerns. The cost of a security failure. The cost of a security failure. Best practices to secure smart cities.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Red, blue and purple teams simulate cyberattacks and incident responses to test an organization’s cybersecurity readiness. Blue team members might be led by a chief information security officer (CISO) or director of security operations, making this team the largest among the three.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. ” continues the alert.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The National Security Agency (NSA) warns that Russia-linked hackers are exploiting a recently patched VMware flaw in a cyberespionage campaign. Last week, the company finally released security updates to fix the CVE-2020-4006 zero-day flaw in Workspace One Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, and Identity Manager Connector.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

“These shortcomings were emblematic of a culture that evolved over years that too often prioritized creativity and collaboration at the expense of security,” according to the report. . The CIA report highlighted the lax cybersecurity measures by the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, a super-sophisticated hackers unit.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

If you’re serious about information security, you should consider gaining a Microsoft qualification. ISO 27001 is often considered the go-to qualification for information security professionals. There’s a huge demand for qualified administrators and cyber security professionals. Cloud security with Microsoft Azure.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

Taiwanese vendor QNAP has warned customers to secure network-attached storage (NAS) exposed online from ransomware and brute-force attacks. QNAP urges all QNAP NAS users to follow the security setting instructions below to ensure the security of QNAP networking devices.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The attacks were spotted by Iranian cybersecurity firm Amnpardaz, this is the first time ever that malware targets iLO firmware. “This alone shows that the purpose of this malware is to be a rootkit with maximum stealth and to hide from all security inspections,” the researchers said. ” continues the report.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The entire technology industry received a sizable lump of coal in their collective stocking earlier this week in the form of two major security vulnerabilities in a widely-used software tool. Unfortunately, the patch itself contained another security vulnerability, which has also been patched. What is Log4J? How bad is it?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

In mere seconds, a hacker remotely accessed a computer belonging to a regional Russian Ministry of Health, taking advantage of sloppy cybersecurity practices to expose its entire network. Spielerkid89, who wished to remain anonymous, did not intend to harm the organization and left its systems intact. Original post at [link].

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

Findings released this week by ReversingLabs show 87 percent of security and technology professionals view software tampering as a new breach vector of concern, yet only 37 percent say they have a way to detect it across their software supply chain. Its function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

Now security researchers have discovered a black hat generative AI tool called WormGPT that has none of the ethical restrictions of tools like ChatGPT, making it even easier for hackers to craft cyber attacks based on AI tools. ” The security researchers tested WormGPT to see how it would perform in BEC attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 17, 2023

Cybersecurity Ventures predicts by 2031 ransomware will cost victims $265 billion annually, and it will affect a business, consumer, or device every 2 seconds. This results in the malware (binary) to run as a process on the victim’s end user system (endpoint) or server. What is Ransomware? It is a form of cyber extortion.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

The RUSdot mailer, the email spamming tool made and sold by the administrator of RSOCKS. Cybersecurity firm Constella Intelligence shows that in 2017, someone using the email address istanx@gmail.com registered at the Russian freelancer job site fl.ru Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Instead, memory attacks are transient.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2020

The researchers concluded that for many people involved, cybercrime amounts to little more than a boring office job sustaining the infrastructure on which these global markets rely, work that is little different in character from the activity of legitimate system administrators. So I just left and went on with life.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Security experts are warning of ransomware attacks exploiting two VMWare ESXi vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-5544 and CVE-2020-3992 , to encrypt virtual hard disks. Ransomware group using them to bypass all Windows OS security, by shutting down VMs and encrypting the VMDK’s directly on hypervisor. Pierluigi Paganini. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

million individuals from the Company’s systems. According to the complaint, over a period of 19 days, hackers were able to infiltrate the Company’s computer systems. See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. , 3:18-cv-00969 (N.D. filed Dec.

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CGI

MAY 21, 2018

Laying the foundation for cybersecurity. At a recent technology breakfast, I heard an attendee ask a speaker about an approach to modernize security. Modernizing security sounds like a great goal, but the reality is, most organizations are still struggling with the basic elements of securing information and information assets.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

We’ve compiled some recently active vulnerabilities — both old and new — for security teams to monitor, mitigate, patch, or even remove from your infrastructure altogether. Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

The FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Defense (DoD) released information on a RAT variant, dubbed TAIDOOR, used by China-linked hackers in cyber espionage campaigns targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks. Keep operating system patches up-to-date. v1 , U.S. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

Unfortunately, as system administrators seek ways to control access to these platforms, users may seek out alternative ways to gain access.” In this case, the visitors were downloading Midjourney-x64.msix, msix, which is a Windows Application Package also signed by ASHANA GLOBAL LTD. ” concludes the report.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

We’ve compiled some recently active vulnerabilities — both old and new — for security teams to monitor, mitigate, patch, or even remove from your infrastructure altogether. Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

And in between all that one security company shared a BlackMatter decryption tool , which might have helped to hasten the group’s demise. FIN7 Dupes Security Job Applicants. FIN7’s hackers built a website based on legitimate information provided by actual cybersecurity companies. practice assignments and job interviews.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administratio n (CISA), Snatch was originally named Team Truniger , based on the nickname of the group’s founder and organizer — Truniger. It continues: “Prior to deploying the ransomware, Snatch threat actors were observed spending up to three months on a victim’s system.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

US NSA, CISA, and the FBI published a joint cybersecurity advisory to warn that China-linked threat actors have breached telecommunications companies and network service providers. Ensure that you have dedicated management systems [ D3-PH ] and accounts for system administrators. To nominate, please visit:?.

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