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GUEST ESSAY. Everyone should grasp these facts about cyber threats that plague digital commerce

The Last Watchdog

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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Microsoft Patches Six Zero-Day Security Holes

Krebs on Security

Kevin Breen , director of cyber threat research at Immersive Labs , said elevation of privilege flaws are just as valuable to attackers as remote code execution bugs: Once the attacker has gained an initial foothold, he can move laterally across the network and uncover further ways to escalate to system or domain-level access.

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FBI: Operation ‘Duck Hunt’ dismantled the Qakbot botnet

Security Affairs

’ Qakbot , also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is an info-stealing malware that has been active since 2008. ” “All of this was made possible by the dedicated work of FBI Los Angeles, our Cyber Division at FBI Headquarters, and our partners, both here at home and overseas,” added Wray.

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Growing Cyber Threats to the Energy and Industrial Sectors

NopSec

It gives the example of Hacking Team, based in Italy, and Vupen Security, based in France. According to the information security giants, there is one known criminal that uses the handle of Bonito, and has been identified as selling access to SCADA systems. See our white paper for more information.

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Indicators of compromise (IOCs): how we collect and use them

SecureList

Usually after the phrase there are MD5 hashes [1] , IP addresses and other technical data that should help information security specialists to counter a specific threat. What is cyber threat intelligence, and how do we use it in GReAT? This is what we call cyber threat intelligence.

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The Most Common Types of Malware in 2021

CyberSecurity Insiders

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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