Jane Frankland

MAY 3, 2025

The Changing Landscape of Cyber Threats AI is transforming the cybersecurity landscape, revolutionising how organisations defend themselves while simultaneously empowering hackers to elevate their methods. On one hand, AI enhances security by enabling faster threat detection, predictive analytics, and automated responses.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

It also allows for centralized tracking of firewall activity, which simplifies threat detection and response. By offering insights into previous traffic, this technique improves threat detection, troubleshooting, and overall security by enabling for educated decision-making and proactive optimization of firewall configurations.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 9, 2022

The ransomware targets virtual machines and snapshots, looking to escape containers, encrypt any possible persistence, and wipe out backups that weren’t carefully archived. Regularly back up data, air gap, and password protect backup copies offline. It also searches through data hosted by cloud providers contracted to the target.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Patch management: Keeping software and firmware up to date to close security gaps. Firmware Manipulation Attackers can manipulate firmware in ICS components, such as controllers and sensors, by inserting malicious code to compromise operations.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 14, 2025

To gain access to internal networks, Akira targeted local accounts with disabled multifactor authentication (MFA) and SonicOS firmware versions vulnerable to exploitation, often exposed to the internet for virtual private network (VPN) access.

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Centraleyes

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Backup and Recovery Solutions : Ensure data is backed up and can be restored in case of incidents. Exercise a System Recovery Plan : Have a comprehensive backup and recovery plan to ensure data protection and continuity. Continuously Hunt for Network Intrusions : Employ proactive measures to detect and respond to intrusions.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Firmware attacks: Attackers target vulnerabilities in the simplified software that runs computer hard drives, printers, medical devices, and other Internet of Things (IoT) or operational technology (OT) devices to gain unauthorized access, control the devices, or use them as a launching pad for other attacks.

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