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Gootkit delivery platform Gootloader used to deliver additional payloads

Security Affairs

In its latest attempts to evade detection by endpoint security tools, Gootloader has moved as much of its infection infrastructure to a “fileless” methodology as possible.” file is the initial infector, and the only stage of the infection at which a malicious file is written to the filesystem. “This.js

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Intelligent Search – Strategies to Find What You Need

AIIM

Storing important information in a secure and compliant way. Often, you can make some good initial decisions right away by examining things like file name, path name, and file extensions before you attempt to migrate, read, or index the content itself. Using that information in ways that matter.

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Multiple threat actors are targeting Elasticsearch Clusters

Security Affairs

Security researchers at Cisco Talos are warning of a spike in attacks on unsecured Elasticsearch clusters to drop cryptocurrency miners. These attacks leverage CVE-2014-3120 and CVE-2015-1427, both of which are only present in old versions of Elasticsearch and exploit the ability to pass scripts to search queries.”