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How to Accelerate Government Transformation by Reducing Risk, Complexity, and Cost

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

How to Accelerate Government Transformation by Reducing Risk, Complexity, and Cost. Gartner reported that 36% plan to increase spending on AI and machine learning , and 85% want to implement data-mining supported by machine learning until 2024. How to Accelerate Government Transformation by Reducing Risk, Complexity, and Cost.

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Threat Group TeamTNT Returns with New Cloud Attacks

eSecurity Planet

A retired threat actor has returned with new attacks aimed at the cloud, containers – and encryption keys. All internet communications, including SSL and SSH, rely on private and public keys for encryption. It’s the fundamental principle of modern cryptography: encryption must be a one-way operation.

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US CISA and NSA publish guidance to secure Kubernetes deployments

Security Affairs

US CISA and NSA released new guidance that provides recommendations on how to harden Kubernetes deployments and minimize the risk of hack. In recent months the number of cyberattacks against misconfigured Kybernetes systems has surged, threat actors mainly used the to illegally mine cryptocurrencies.

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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How To Protect Yourself From Hackers

Cyber Info Veritas

Would you like to know how to protect yourself from the ever-present threat of cybercrime perpetrated by black hat hackers? The kind of private information on your personal desktop computer, laptop, or smartphone/device will depend on how you use these devices. Try to avoid sites that lack this, now-standard encryption.

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Ezuri memory loader used in Linux and Windows malware

Security Affairs

The user describes its project as a simple Linux ELF Runtime crypter, he wrote the code to demonstrate how to execute the ELF binary files from memory with memfd_create syscall. Then the packer compiles the loader with the payload encrypted within it, so it can be decrypted and executed in memory once it is delivered in the targeted system.

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Crooks continue to abuse exposed Docker APIs for Cryptojacking

Security Affairs

Earlier this year Sysdig and Aqua Security researchers started observing cyber attacks targeting Kubernets and Docker instances aimed at mining Monero cryptocurrency. Miscreants can abuse Docker Engine API to deploy containers they have created with the specific intent of mining cryptocurrencies. Pierluigi Paganini.

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