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Ghost Ransomware a Persistent Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure

SecureWorld News

The FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory warning organizations about Ghost (Cring) ransomware, a sophisticated cyber threat that has been compromising critical infrastructure, businesses, and government entities worldwide.

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A few thoughts on CVE

Adam Shostack

Tagging both with a name was an important use case in 1997, and one that I got to revisit around 2010 when I was doing work to understand how malware got into PCs. Finding support from outside the government was, as I recall, harder because MITRE is Congressionally chartered and has difficulty taking money from anyone but the US Government.

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Joint Advisory Warns of Fast Flux DNS Tactics Evading Detection

SecureWorld News

FortiGuard Labs saw some of the early botnets back between 2007-2010, like Zeus and Conficker, using fast flux to distribute malware and manage their Command and Control (C2) communications. Threat intelligence sharing: Colla borate with industry peers and government agencies to stay informed about emerging threats and mitigation strategies.

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Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q2 2025

Anton on Security

EP8 Zero Trust: Fast Forward from 2010 to 2021 EP17 Modern Threat Detection at Google EP47 “Megatrends, Macro-changes, Microservices, Oh My! Top 7 Cloud Security Podcast by Google episodes (excluding the oldest 3!): EP75 How We Scale Detection and Response at Google: Automation, Metrics, Toil (our best episode! officially!)

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Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q1 2025

Anton on Security

EP8 Zero Trust: Fast Forward from 2010 to2021 EP47 Megatrends, Macro-changes, Microservices, Oh My! Top 7 Cloud Security Podcast by Google episodes (excluding the oldest3!): EP75 How We Scale Detection and Response at Google: Automation, Metrics, Toil (our best episode! officially!)

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Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q2 2025

Security Boulevard

EP8 Zero Trust: Fast Forward from 2010 to 2021 EP17 Modern Threat Detection at Google EP47 “Megatrends, Macro-changes, Microservices, Oh My! Top 7 Cloud Security Podcast by Google episodes (excluding the oldest 3!): EP75 How We Scale Detection and Response at Google: Automation, Metrics, Toil (our best episode! officially!)

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NIST 800-171 Revision 3: The Impact on CMMC Compliance and How To Get Ready

Centraleyes

CUI is defined as government-related information that needs to be protected and transmitted using controls compatible with government laws, regulations, and policies. The NIST CUI Program was established to standardize the way the government and its contracted companies handle information that requires protection and is not classified.