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On Chinese "Spy Trains"

Schneier on Security

It's also why the United States has blocked the cybersecurity company Kaspersky from selling its Russian-made antivirus products to US government agencies. Meanwhile, the chairman of China's technology giant Huawei has pointed to NSA spying disclosed by Edward Snowden as a reason to mistrust US technology companies.

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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

eSecurity Planet

History of MSSPs As internet service providers (ISPs) and telecommunications companies (telecoms) began offering commercial access to the internet in the late 1990s, they began to also offer firewall appliances and associated managed services. and then monitors the endpoint alerts to respond to detected threats. Outsourcing U.S.

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Data Loss Prevention for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

IT Security Guru

Hybrid work models and broadly adopted cloud technology disperse operations extensively; data is moved, stored, and accessed from highly distributed locations. Data security and monitoring : SMBs shall deploy robust firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus software to safeguard their networks from external threats.

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Purple Lambert, a new malware of CIA-linked Lambert APT group

Security Affairs

Experts from Kaspersky explained that in February 2019, multiple antivirus companies received a collection of malware samples, some of them cannot be associated with the activity of known APT groups. . Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has discovered a new malware that experts attribute to the US Central Intelligence Agency.

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The Analyst Prompt #05: Russo-Ukrainian Cyberattacks, and Updates on Lapsus$ and Conti Ransomware Operations

Security Boulevard

3 ] The emails redirected victims to a website delivering fake antivirus updates that eventually downloaded Cobalt Strike beacons, or two custom Go malware variants named GraphSteel and GrimPlant. Franco Gabrielli: «I nostri antivirus prodotti dai russi sono da cambiare. The UA-Cert attributes the activity to UAC-0056. 16, 2022). “[MàJ]

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U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise

Krebs on Security

Malicious code added to an Orion software update may have gone undetected by antivirus software and other security tools on host systems thanks in part to guidance from SolarWinds itself. all ten of the top ten US telecommunications companies. That seems like a fair bet. Fortune 500. all five branches of the U.S. accounting firms.

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How we protect our users against the Sunburst backdoor

SecureList

Based on the CNAME records published by FireEye, we identified only two entities, a US government organization and a telecommunications company, who were tagged and “promoted” to dedicated C2s for additional exploitation. Why didn’t you catch this supply chain attack in the first place?

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