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Defenders Be Prepared: Cyberattacks Surge Against Linux Amid Cloud Migration

Dark Reading

Ransomware in particular poses a major threat, but security vendors say there has been an increase in Linux-targeted cryptojacking, malware, and vulnerability exploits as well, and defenders need to be ready.

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Menlo Security Finds Cloud Migration and Remote Work Gives Rise to New Era of Malware, Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT)

CyberSecurity Insiders

HEAT attacks are used to deliver malware or to compromise credentials, that in many cases leads to ransomware attacks. With the abrupt move to remote working in 2020, every organization had to pivot to a work from an anywhere model and accelerate their migration to cloud-based applications.

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BrandPost: CISOs Are Focused on These 3 Trends, Are You?

CSO Magazine

The rise in remote work means that many organizations are managing a complex web of in-person, online, and hybrid work scenarios while also juggling cloud migration to support their diversified workforce. 1] For Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), this has created a variety of new challenges to contend with.

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Menlo Security Finds Cloud Migration and Remote Work Gives Rise to New Era of Malware, Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT)

Dark Reading

Menlo identified 224% increase in HEAT attacks in the last six months fueling ransomware surge.

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RSAC insights: ‘SaaS security posture management’ — SSPM — has emerged as a networking must-have

The Last Watchdog

To accelerate cloud migration, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud guaranteed that the hosted IT infrastructure they sought to rent to enterprises would be security-hardened – at least on their end. Wave after wave of successful exploits took full advantage of the misconfigurations spinning out of cloud migration.

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Q&A: Sophos poll shows how attackers are taking advantage of cloud migration to wreak havoc

The Last Watchdog

Cloud migration, obviously, is here to stay. But there’s no doubt that the exodus to a much greater dependency on hybrid cloud and multi-cloud resources – Infrastructure-as-a-Service ( IaaS ) and Platforms-as-a-Service ( PaaS ) – is in full swing. LW: Shifting gears a bit, what’s going on with ransomware?

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MY TAKE: A few reasons to believe RSAC 2023’s ‘stronger together’ theme is gaining traction

The Last Watchdog

The trick in today’s operating environment is how to do this well with cloud migration accelerating. It’s easier than ever for malicious hackers to get deep access, steal data, spread ransomware, disrupt infrastructure and attain long run unauthorized access.

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