McAfee

MAY 27, 2021

May 2021 has been an extraordinary month in the cybersecurity world, with the DoD releasing its DoD Zero Trust Reference Architecture (DoDZTRA), the Colonial Pipeline being hit with a ransomware attack, and the White House releasing its Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO). I suspect the $4.4M

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

We’ll illustrate these concepts below with real-life examples of events highlighting vulnerabilities in cloud storage. Limited Control & Visibility Insufficient visibility into the cloud architecture causes delays in threat responses, increasing the risk of data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Incident Response is a systematic method for addressing and managing security incidents in organizations, focused on minimizing and investigating the impact of events and restoring normal operations. Social engineering attacks: These involve manipulating individuals to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information or systems.

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

They generated a custom version of the ransomware, which used the aforementioned account credential to spread across the network and perform malicious activities, such as killing Windows Defender and erasing Windows Event Logs in order to encrypt the data and cover its tracks. In this article, we revisit the LockBit 3.0

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In other systems, other types of scripts were found, namely webshells, and also SMTP senders to leverage social engineering campaigns (Figure 6). Figure 6: SMTP senders used by criminals to leverage social engineering campaigns. Figure 5: WordPress header.php file with the cryptominer script harcoded.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

According to Verizon’s most recent Data Breach Incident Report , instances of advanced ransomware have doubled in the past year, alongside major upticks in phishing attacks and social engineering. Don’t worry though, there's already an insurance policy for that. What is Cyber Liability Insurance?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Security infrastructure and redundancy: Check the vendor’s data centers, network architecture, backup and disaster recovery plans, and uptime assurances. Social engineering, for example, is a threat that makes use of human vulnerabilities for illegal access.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 6, 2021

I would strongly advise anyone who is contemplating a move to Zero Trust models or architecture to read and consider the many valuable points made in the current documents, such as NIST Special Publication 800-207. Jenny Radcliffe, People Hacker & Social Engineer. Haider Iqbal, Business Development Director, Thales.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 21, 2022

This includes using easily guessed passwords and falling victim to phishing and socially engineered techniques such as business email compromise. In turn, this securely protects vulnerable and vital data that is at risk of being not only exposed but affecting critical infrastructure.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This ranges from understanding cryptography to having insights into operating system architecture. And if a threat actor employs social engineering , the analyst might even need a basic grasp of psychology. They should be adept at automating the search for indicators amidst a barrage of "raw" events in an optimized manner.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2024

Conduct user awareness training: Incorporate a focused training program into onboarding and workflow process so employees can learn about social engineering strategies, phishing risks, and cloud security best practices. This increases the likelihood of security events and jeopardizes system integrity and confidentiality.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

Lapsus$ has used tactics such as social engineering, SIM swapping, and paying employees and business partners for access to credentials and multifactor authentication approvals. Once events are ingested, a number of queries can be created and easily leveraged for signs of a potential compromise or other suspicious activities.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A single cybersecurity event can render extensive damage both financially as well as in brand reputation and customer confidence. When looking at such high-profile events as the Sony Pictures hack in 2014 or the Equifax breach last year that exposed the personally identifiable information of millions of U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

These platforms make it possible for security teams to analyze consolidated threat feeds from various external alerts and log events. Examples of threatening traffic that IDPS solutions can combat include network intrusions, DDoS attacks, malware, and socially engineered attacks.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2023

Mythic is a plug-n-play command and control (C2) framework that heavily leverages Docker and a microservice architecture where new agents, communication channels, and modifications can happen on the fly. In the below screenshot we can see the various events that cause new logs as well as which events can trigger webhooks.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Develop a cybersecurity incident response plan In the event of a cyberattack, organizations should have a plan in place to respond quickly and effectively. Does this tool integrate with our existing architecture (e.g., Investing in security awareness training has a bottom line impact. SIEM, SOAR)?

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Threat actors have developed social engineering approaches that leverage the uncertainty and chaos of the pandemic in order to deliver their malicious software. This makes simple but essential information security protocols like proper monitoring, network segmentation, and working toward a zero-trust architecture challenging.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

For example, publicly available employee data can be used for social engineering attacks or to gain access to company resources, and information about the software can be used to find known vulnerabilities. All this information is collected to discover potential attack vectors and negotiate a project scope with the client.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Monitoring Teams: Network traffic itself may not be recognized as malicious, but monitoring by a security incident and event management (SIEM), security operations center (SOC), Managed Detection and Response (MDR), or similar monitoring team may detect unusual connections.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 15, 2021

IDPS tools can detect malware , socially engineered attacks and other web-based threats, including DDoS attacks. Users praise McAfee NSP for its flexibility, comprehensive architecture and simple operability. When it comes to hardware, NSP can meet the full range of customer needs with its four sensor models. NSFocus NGIPS.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although there was a public report of drones used to hack a Wi-Fi network in 2022, there are no accounts of similar events happening in 2023. They advertise on dark web platforms and employ various techniques, including malware, phishing, and other social engineering methods. Verdict: prediction fulfilled ✅ 8.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

The United States was by far the most attacked country this spring, with 290 reported ransomware events. This allows the malware to run on different combinations of operating systems and architectures. *Black Basta launched in April, so its tally is one month less than the others. Top countries.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As 2023 draws to an end and cybersecurity budgeting is nearly complete, it helps to consider the year’s events and try to predict next year’s trends. However, this disruptive change from traditional models will prompt a change in the focus of phishing campaigns to bypass these new architectures.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In the event of a ransomware attack, an organization could lose access to part or all of its network data and systems, blocking further work. Like any malware, ransomware enters the network through attack vectors like phishing emails , social engineering , software and remote desktop protocol (RDP) vulnerabilities, and malicious websites.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

They are designed to highlight the significant events and findings that we feel people should be aware of. These summaries are based on our threat intelligence research; and they provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and discussed in greater detail in our private APT reports.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One of the most iconic cyber-events of 2021 was the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline. This includes the use of social engineering to obtain credentials and brute-force attacks on corporate services, in the hope of finding poorly protected servers. More disruptive attacks. This prediction proved to be accurate.

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SecureList

JULY 27, 2023

They are designed to highlight the significant events and findings that we feel people should be aware of. This sophisticated malware, completely rewritten from scratch, exhibits an advanced and complex architecture that makes use of loadable and embedded modules and plugins. We also discovered a new variant, MATAv5.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

They are designed to highlight the significant events and findings that we feel people should be aware of. While we were unable to obtain the same results by analyzing the CERT-UA samples, we subsequently identified a different WhiteBlackCrypt sample matching the WhisperKill architecture and sharing similar code. Final thoughts.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Then sign off on it, by adding our digital signatures to the packages (so it came from us and not tampered/altered by any malicious party), before uploading the package source to the build bots, which will re-compile it for every supported architecture. ARM - multi architecture Since BackTrack 4, the option was there for ARM support.

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