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MY TAKE: Why speedy innovation requires much improved cyber hygiene, cloud security

The Last Watchdog

A big challenge security executives face is balancing speed vs. security. I spoke with Greg Young, Cybersecurity Vice President at Trend Micro about this. Teeming threat landscape Security leaders’ key priority is reducing exposures to the cyber risks they know are multiplying. We met at RSA 2020 in San Francisco.

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TeamTNT is back and targets servers to run Bitcoin encryption solvers

Security Affairs

In the first week of September, AquaSec researchers identified at least three different attacks targeting their honeypots, the experts associated them with the cybercrime gang TeamTNT. The post TeamTNT is back and targets servers to run Bitcoin encryption solvers appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Abcbot and Xanthe botnets have the same origin, experts discovered

Security Affairs

In November Researchers from Qihoo 360’s Netlab security team have spotted a new botnet, tracked as Abcbot, that targets Linux systems to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The security firm analyzed a total of six versions of the botnet since November. ” reads the analysis published by Cado Security.

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Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018

Security Affairs

Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved. Security Affairs – IoT devices, hacking ).

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for May 2023

IT Governance

Another ChatGPT threat vector emerges Since the emergence of ChatGPT last year, IT Governance has covered the cyber security implications it’s having in comprehensive detail. Research from the cyber security firm Check Point discovered 13,295 newly registered domains imitating OpenAI and ChatGPT. Can you spot a scam?

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

The Security Ledger

In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#255) host Paul Roberts interviews Niels Provos of Lacework about his mission to use EDM to teach people about cybersecurity. The post Episode 255: EDM, Meet CDM – Cyber Dance Music with Niels Provos appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Click the icon below to listen.

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Shellbot Botnet Targets IoT devices and Linux servers

Security Affairs

Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted an IRC bot dubbed Shellbot that was built using Perl Shellbot. The analysis of command and control (C&C) traffic allowed the security researchers finding the IRC channels’ information and discovered that at the first infection 142 hosts were present in the IRC channel.

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