eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Also read: Feds Warn About Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks, Vulnerabilities. It can even access the chip’s firmware to gain root access on the device, a significant privilege escalation. Spyware and Zero-Days: A Troubling Market.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

Ransomware has given security professionals a headache for the better part of a decade. Germany, the UK, and Italy also registered high ransomware tallies. To understand how we got here, let’s first take a closer look at recent statistics on the top ransomware variants, countries and industries attacked. Top ransomware variants.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

See translation Will buy 0day/1day RCE in IoT Escrow See translation Hi, I want to buy IoT exploits with devices located in Korea Any architecture There are also offers to purchase and sell IoT malware on dark web forums, often packaged with infrastructure and supporting utilities.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Drivers, Firmware, Software : Cloud providers bear responsibility to secure, test, and update the software and code that supports the firmware and the basic software infrastructure of the cloud. See the Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection. Identity and access management (IAM).

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Ransomware attacks: Ransomware is malware extortion attack that encrypts a victim’s files, demanding a ransom payment in exchange for the decryption key. Architecture model: A diagram or description of the network and system architecture used to understand possible attack surfaces.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

SD-WAN is a virtual architecture for managing a wide-area network covering distributed, hybrid IT environments typical for today’s enterprise organizations. With SD-WAN architectures, branch employees and remote users connect to an enterprise network through a web of connected devices over the internet. What is SD-WAN?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2022

It’s often the first step to perform further actions such as data thefts, defacing, or even ransomware attacks that have caused severe damages to many organizations in recent years. This attack relies on a client-server architecture and consists of using other protocols such as TCP or SSH to tunnel malware through DNS requests.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

Lastly, the pump runs its own custom Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and firmware on a M32C microcontroller. An architecture diagram below helps demonstrates the system layout and design when a pump is present in the docking station. Figure 2: System Architecture. SpaceCom Functions and Software Components.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

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. The following day, Avast Threat Research announced the discovery of new Golang ransomware in Ukraine , which they dubbed HermeticRansom.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Many organizations have opted to converge their IT and OT environments, which can yield many benefits such as efficiency and more elegant architecture; at the same time, these decisions are not without risk. • Configuration control that tracks all changes to code, OS & firmware regardless. Conclusion.

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Jane Frankland

JULY 17, 2023

Hardware Shield reduces the attack surface and protects against damaging firmware-level attacks while offloading routine security functions for minimal user impact, allowing for continuous productivity.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) : In today’s ransomware-riddled environment, two-factor authentication should also be considered a minimum requirement for all forms of remote access. Email Security: Many attacks escape network security detection through malicious emails, such as phishing , business email compromise (BEC), and ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Fortunately, vendor surveys identify five key cybersecurity threats to watch for in 2024: compromised credentials, attacks on infrastructure, organized and advanced adversaries, ransomware, and uncontrolled devices. Infrastructure Protection Defense against DDoS and DNS attacks starts with effective network security architecture.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 11, 2023

government and others, we are still no closer to seeing zero trust architecture widely adopted. I am very surprised that the cyber insurance industry has not required zero trust architecture already, but perhaps the $1.4 They control the firmware, the signing, and the supply chain. Everything is integrated by the CSPs.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But that's when you can see the damage that they could do the same thing with ransomware, was the same thing with IoT malware, you know, DDoS attack. Quemu enables me to emulate some of the not common CPU architectures like MIPS powerPC or MIPS cell. Darki: So imagine malware is something like a Swiss knife. Probably not.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Total Fitness Ransomware Attack. UK media didn't report UK gym chain Total Fitness had been hit by a ransomware attack. Total Fitness is continuing to respond to the ongoing ransomware attack likely to be by international serious and organised cyber-crime groups. NCSC ransomware PDF.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Designed for zero trust and SASE security frameworks Identity-based intrusion detection and prevention ( IDPS ) and access control Automated integrations with leading cloud-hosted security vendors Integrated threat defense for DDoS , phishing , and ransomware attacks Insights into client devices with AI-based discovery and profiling techniques.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The malware posed as ransomware, demanding money from the victims for “decrypting” their data. Then Mandiant reported the last known abuse that revealed the Poortry malware, which had been used in a number of cyberattacks including ransomware-based incidents.

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