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Cuttlefish malware targets enterprise-grade SOHO routers

Security Affairs

Researchers at Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs discovered a new malware family, named Cuttlefish, which targets enterprise-grade and small office/home office (SOHO) routers to harvest public cloud authentication data from internet traffic. The malicious code can also perform DNS and HTTP hijacking within private IP spaces.

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Implementing Zero Trust: Beyond Internal Network Models

Security Boulevard

Are you similarly asking the same questions — for each connection that originates inside your network and tries to talk to a remote piece of Internet infrastructure outside your network, why are we talking to it, who is it really, and should we be talking to it? That’s the role of Protective DNS.

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A Reactive Cybersecurity Strategy Is No Strategy at All

CyberSecurity Insiders

By increasing visibility into DNS traffic, CISOs can detect, block, and respond to incidents more quickly as well as use this data to institute new controls and increase overall resiliency. So why aren’t more organizations taking advantage of protective DNS? The issue likely comes down to awareness.

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Strengthening Cyber Resilience: A Milestone Partnership

Security Boulevard

Furthermore, our seamless integration with leading security components such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and other EDR/XDR solutions ensures a cohesive defense architecture that maximizes efficacy, minimizes response times, and allows for unparalleled deployment flexibility and configuration.

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Massive increase in XorDDoS Linux malware in last six months

Malwarebytes

Since Linux is deployed on many IoT (Internet of Things) devices and cloud infrastructures, we are likely to see DDoS (distributed denial-of-system) attacks from botnets that have compromised such devices. The only simple (yet effective) tactic it uses is to brute force its way to gain root access to various Linux architectures.

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Reflections on third-party validation of HYAS capabilties

Security Boulevard

From a capability standpoint, HYAS not only continually gathers unique and bespoke data, but assembles it in a proprietary graph database that is constantly evolving to represent the real-time view of adversary infrastructure on the Internet. Not just by a few percentage points either … but in a very significant way.

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Domain name service (DNS) attacks threaten every internet connection because they can deny, intercept, and hijack connections. With the internet playing an increasing role in business, securing DNS plays a critical role in both operations and security. Everything You Need to Know.

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