Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

According to a criminal complaint published by Argentina’s Unidad Fiscal Especializada en Ciberdelincuencia, the agency started receiving numerous tech support calls from checkpoints at approximately 7 AM on August 27th. Below the recommended mitigations provided by the FBI: Back-up critical data offline.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

Linux is widely used in web servers and cloud infrastructure, but the open-source software also is broadly adopted in mobile and IoT devices due to its scalability, performance and security. In addition, the broad array of distributions makes it easier to support multiple hardware designs.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Assistant Attorney General For National Security, John Demers, says the power grid attacks in 2015 and 2016 were the first known destructive attacks against civilian critical infrastructure. They plunged Ukraine's cities into darkness. Again, that was the start. According to Demers: "From there, the conspirators' destructive path.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Americans’ personal information, stolen en masse by state-backed actors and online gangs alike, is being weaponized via increasingly sophisticated social engineering or disinformation campaigns. Criminals and extremists similarly can threaten unprecedented levels of disruption and coercion. The path to better cybersecurity.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

We don’t know by whom, but we have account names: Jia Tan, Jigar Kumar, Dennis Ens. This is no way to run critical national infrastructure. And there’s no way to know how many of the unpaid and unappreciated maintainers of critical software libraries are vulnerable to pressure. This is a systems problem.)

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Joseph Steinberg

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Of course, there are multiple competing commercial offerings that have been available for quite some time – and larger organizations are certainly using such technologies en masse. For those who prefer, CrowdSec can also generate Prometheus data to feed into Grafana or the like.).

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McAfee

JANUARY 17, 2020

This highly critical vulnerability allows an attacker to fake both signatures and digital certificates. The bug is considered to be highly critical. Specifically: McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS). Microsoft made news this week with the widely reported vulnerability known as CVE-2020-0601 , which impacts the Windows CryptoAPI.

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McAfee

JANUARY 5, 2022

Expert Rules on Endpoint Security (ENS) can pick-up dangerous patterns in memory as described in this blog. . Endpoint Security (ENS), VirusScan Enterprise (VSE), McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) can provide generic detection under the tile Exploit-CVE-2021-44228.C C via a “Potentially Unwanted Software” detection. The Gold standard .

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Zigrin Security

APRIL 26, 2023

autochrome/purple Accept: application/json Referer: [link] Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Language: en-US, en;q=0.9 The below profile edit request was sent to change the email of the user “user-a@zigrin.com”: POST /users/edit HTTP/1.1 X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4673.0 Safari/537.36

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Previously, mining was mostly a threat for general users, but today miners are stealing power from large businesses and critical infrastructures. The level of cybersecurity after the pandemic and the initial adoption of remote work by organizations en masse has become better.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Early prevention, identification and response to potentially malicious activity is critical for business resilience. Detecting this activity and stopping it is critical to limiting the abilities of the threat actor to further their execution strategy. Many customer-facing applications and web servers are hosted on cloud infrastructure.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Spotting and Stopping Persistent Invaders Nation state affiliated threat actors such as FIN6 , NICKEL , and Emissary Panda targeted critical Active Directory assets, notably the (Windows NT Directory Services) NTDS.dit file, the KRBTGT service account, and Active Directory certificates.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This includes inline traffic filtering and management security solutions deployed at access and distribution layers in the network, as well as out of band solutions like NAC, SIEM or User Behavior Analysis to provide identity-based network access and gain more visibility into the user’s access to critical network resources.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The vulnerabilities illustrate how Machine Identity Management and other PKI operations have become critical infrastructure in enterprises that must be protected. A pre-announcement of the update last week characterized the severity of CVE-2022-3602 as “CRITICAL.” Both vulnerabilities allow for a stack overflow in the X.509

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2019

This threat is very critical these days, and it is the most active ransomware that focuses on targeting companies. Altran cible d’une attaque informatique de grande ampleur — Pas au top en carving (@LaurentTanger) January 25, 2019. Altran and Norsk Hydro are two companies severely affected this wave and the damage is giant.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

With those particular groups, their demise was typically brought about by internal conflicts—such as the compromise of Conti’s infrastructure and other divisions —or as a result of law enforcement scrutiny. Pertinent events that cause global attention, as seen with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, are likely to galvanize hacktivists en masse.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

However, cloud infrastructure is creating complexities when it comes to the world of security and compliance regulations. Compliance is a common word tossed around in the context of infrastructure and technology solutions, and rightly so. Data is becoming more centralized to cloud, instead of on-premises. What is Compliance?

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) 3.3. Step 8: Treat risk Regardless of the risk calculation method chosen, a business decision then has to be made around the value below which risks will simply be accepted ( e.g. lows and mediums), and which will need mitigations, compensating controls, or security measures deployed (highs and criticals).

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