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GUEST ESSAY: The drivers behind persistent ransomware — and defense tactics to deploy

The Last Watchdog

Related: It’s all about ‘ attack surface management ‘ However, today’s perpetrator isn’t standing in front of you brandishing a weapon. The technology industry has met the dramatic rise in ransomware and other cyber attacks with an impressive set of tools to help companies mitigate the risks. Prevalence.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 428 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial compromise The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub US CISA warns of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix flaws Indexing Over 15 Million WordPress Websites with PWNPress New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two (..)

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SEC Proposes Cybersecurity Rules for Public Companies

Hunton Privacy

If adopted, the new rules would impose substantial new reporting obligations with respect to material cybersecurity incidents and cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance for both domestic and foreign private issuers subject to the reporting requirements under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Key Definitions.

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6 Best Threat Intelligence Feeds to Use in 2023

eSecurity Planet

As a bonus, many of these tools are free to access and have specialized feeds that focus on different industries and sectors. Additionally, dashboards share data about threat names, any relevant reference URLs, tags, adversary and malware families, and attack IDs. critical infrastructure.

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Analyzing the APT34’s Jason project

Security Affairs

APT 34, also referred to as “ OilRig ” or Helix Kitten , has been known to target regional corporations and industries. APT34 conducts cyber espionage on behalf of Iran. This strategy is especially important against nations it sees as a threat to its regional power such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.”

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TA505 Cybercrime targets system integrator companies

Security Affairs

The two Macros decoded a Javascript payload acting as a drop and execute by using a well-known strategy as described in: “ Frequent VBA Macros used in Office Malware ”. A first round of obfuscation technique was adopted by the attacker in order to make harder the analyst’s decoding process. Funny isn’t it? net http[://com-mk84.net.

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Top IoT Security Solutions of 2021

eSecurity Planet

As the enterprise attack surface grows, IoT is yet another attack vector organizations aren’t fully prepared to defend. Armis was acquired at a $1 billion price tag by Insight Partners in January 2020, joining Insight’s other cybersecurity subsidiaries like SentinelOne, Perimeter81, Mimecast, and Tenable. Armis Features.

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