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Proofpoint Exposes Sophisticated Social Engineering Attack on Recruiters That Infects Their Computers With Malware

Tech Republic Security

Recruiters and anyone else involved in hiring processes should be knowledgeable about this social engineering attack threat. Get the details.

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CVE-2024-4701 (CVSS 9.9): Major RCE Risk in Netflix’s Genie Platform

Penetration Testing

A severe remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability has been discovered in Genie, Netflix’s popular open-source job orchestration engine for big data processing. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-4701, carries a critical CVSS score of 9.9....

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News alert: Criminal IP and Quad9 collaborate to exchange domain and IP threat intelligence

The Last Watchdog

May 13, 2024, CyberNewsWire — Criminal IP, a renowned Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) search engine developed by AI SPERA, has recently signed a technology partnership to exchange threat intelligence data based on domains and potentially on the IP address to protect users by blocking threats to end users. Torrance, Calif.,

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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Big Data and Identity Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In this age of big data, the concept is fitting, because this kind of information is increasingly being used to identify individuals and even machines. In the following, I focus on the analytics component, how it is increasingly used across enterprises, and why it is important to protect big data. Big Data Analytics.

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Octo Tempest cybercriminal group is "a growing concern"—Microsoft

Malwarebytes

Octo Tempest is believed to be a group of native English speaking cybercriminals that uses social engineering campaigns to compromise organizations all over the world. This can be done in a number of ways, but the most common ones involve social engineering attacks on the victim's carrier.

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Verizon 2023 DBIR: DDoS attacks dominate and pretexting lead to BEC growth

Tech Republic Security

In Verizon’s just-released 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report, money is king, and denial of service and social engineering still hold sway. The post Verizon 2023 DBIR: DDoS attacks dominate and pretexting lead to BEC growth appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Making the Metaverse Safe For Everyone

Security Boulevard

We are also getting a hint of the power that big data, AI and machine learning will. Unlike any other time in history, the past decade has shown us the power of technology to transform our working and personal lives. Technology-enabled shopping, banking and working from any location made the restrictions from COVID-19 more manageable.

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