article thumbnail

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 (..)

article thumbnail

Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for May 2023

IT Governance

Dembinsky said that organisations must combat the risk with a combination of education and technical solutions, such as antimalware software. As is often the case with such events, hotel prices skyrocket as demand increases, creating a honeypot that scammers can pounce on. The email reads “Congratulations!

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Security Affairs newsletter Round 306

Security Affairs

Magecart hackers hide captured credit card data in JPG file Microsoft releases On-premises Mitigation Tool (EOMT) tool to fix ProxyLogon issues New Mirai variant appears in the threat landscape China-linked hackers target telcos to steal 5G secrets Data Breaches Tracker monitor unsecured ElasticSearch servers online FBI warns of PYSA Ransomware attacks (..)

article thumbnail

Episode 255: EDM, Meet CDM – Cyber Dance Music with Niels Provos

The Security Ledger

Niels Provos has a storied, two decade career on the forefront of cybersecurity, starting in the late 1990s with his work as a graduate student on phenomena like steganography and honeypots. I’ve been working on this now for 25 years and I just don’t feel it’s getting better,” Niels told me.

article thumbnail

Experts spotted first-ever crypto mining campaign leveraging Kubernetes RBAC

Security Affairs

Aqua analyzed the campaign after having set up K8s honeypots. The attackers check for evidence of competing miner malware on the compromised server and achieve persistence by using RBAC to set up persistence. The researchers explicitly exposed AWS access keys in various locations on the cluster they set up. ” concludes the report.

Mining 87
article thumbnail

The Hacker Mind Podcast: Incident Response in the Cloud

ForAllSecure

Incident response in the cloud. How is it different, and why do we need to pay more attention to it today, before something major happens tomorrow. It’s 3am and the call comes in. In a moment, I’ll introduce you to someone who is thinking about that problem and actively working to resolve it. Do you have a go to on premise, right?

Cloud 40
article thumbnail

Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

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. Perimeter Defense Perimeter defense blocks threats at the network’s edge.