SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A new ransomware strain has been discovered to be targeting organizations in the transportation and logistics industries in Ukraine and Poland with a previously unidentified ransomware payload, according to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC). Prestige ransomware deployment methods.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As some hackers have developed a malware that uses code signing certificates to avoid detection by security defenses and has the tendency to download payloads onto a compromised system. Interestingly, the malware is found using a code signing certificate from Sectigo, a cybersecurity company that offers digital identity solutions.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Nearly a quarter of healthcare organizations hit by ransomware attacks experienced an increase in patient mortality, according to a study from Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint released today. Also read: After Springhill: Assessing the Impact of Ransomware Lawsuits. ” Ponemon: Effects of ransomware on patient care.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Ransomware has rapidly established itself as the attack of choice for adversaries. With the proliferation of readily available, off-the-shelf tools and fully formed ransomware-as-a-service offerings, no business or organization is too small a target. Define specific actions to reduce the likelihood and impact of a ransomware attack.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Akira ransomware vulnerabilities have also surfaced in older Cisco products, and SolarWinds patched some remote code execution flaws in its Access Rights Manager product. Your IT teams should regularly check your vendors’ security bulletins for any vulnerability news or updates. Changing passwords, secrets, and pre-shared keys.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Most companies were unprepared to secure an entirely remote workforce, relying on remote desktop protocol (RDP) and strained VPN infrastructures, leaving workers ripe for attack. Ransomware was particularly successful, with estimates that attacks cost businesses $20 billion worldwide in 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

An old Microsoft Windows spooler flaw is added to the CISA KEV list, and the Cactus Ransomware gang currently pursues unfixed Qlik Sense servers with a vulnerability patched in September 2023. The problem: Progress Software released patches to fix CVE-2024-2389 in their Flowmon network performance and security software tool.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Organizations must prioritize implementing effective security measures and conducting frequent audits. To secure sensitive data, cybersecurity specialists, software vendors, and end users should encourage collaborative efforts against malicious activities. CISA released a list of mitigations against LockBit’s activity.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Major cybersecurity events in the last week make clear that hackers just keep getting savvier — and security teams need to be vigilant to keep up. Ransomware groups continue to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities. Now ransomware attackers, possibly affiliated with FIN8, are exploiting unpatched Citrix products to launch attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference’s focus on cyber resilience doesn’t mean that organizations should abandon core security defenses like EDR , access control and firewalls , but they should be prepared for the advanced threats that will, at some point, get past them. Also read : Is the Answer to Vulnerabilities Patch Management as a Service?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 3, 2023

Daniel Kelley, a reformed black hat hacker and researcher at cybersecurity firm SlashNext, posed as a potential buyer and contacted the individual – “CanadianKingpin12” – who’s been promoting FraudGPT. Email Address By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2023

Iran-linked APT group MERCURY is behind destructive attacks on hybrid environments masquerading as a ransomware operation. Threat actors masqueraded the attacks as a standard ransomware operation. The attackers were able to interfere with security tools using Group Policy Objects (GPO).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

CSP’s Professional Security Expertise CSPs’ professional security expertise substantially contributes to the security capabilities and improvement of the general resilience of cloud storage. They cited lower risk, enhanced security, and cost savings as they go through migration.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The past week has been a busy one for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, with 34 vulnerable Windows drivers and four Microsoft Exchange flaws heading a long list of security concerns. 3 to report that the vulnerability is being actively exploited, which Rapid7 said includes ransomware attacks. Atlassian updated its advisory on Nov.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

government and defense institutions for intelligence gathering. How Volt Typhoon Attacks The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed the complexities of Volt Typhoon’s cyberattacks, listing their typical activities into four steps: reconnaissance, initial access, lateral movement, and potential impact.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Menlo Security , a leader in cloud security, today announced it has identified a surge in cyberthreats, termed Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT), that bypass traditional security defenses. The top three brands impersonated in phishing attacks are Microsoft, PayPal, and Amazon.

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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. After receiving input from industry experts and doing my own analysis of the year’s driving forces, I identified five major cybersecurity trends. Bottom line: Prepare now based on risk.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 21, 2023

August 16 , 2023 CISA Adds Citrix ShareFile Vulnerability to Actively-Exploited List The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the Citrix ShareFile vulnerability CVE-2023-24489 to the list of vulnerabilities that are actively exploited by adversaries.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Read next: Network Protection: How to Secure a Network Weekly Vulnerability Recap – Sept. 11, 2023 – Android Update Fixes 33 Vulnerabilities Get the Free Cybersecurity Newsletter Strengthen your organization's IT security defenses by keeping up to date on the latest cybersecurity news, solutions, and best practices.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

The FBI’s recommended fix for this solution is not a patch but rather the removal of any Barracuda ESG appliances from your business’s security infrastructure. August 24, 2023 Akira ransomware targeting Cisco, but MFA helps Akira ransomware groups have been exploiting Cisco’s virtual private network ( VPN ) tools.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2023

” “These kinds of zero-click exploits are always appealing to threat actors, both nation states, and financially motivated groups like ransomware operators, as they are easy to weaponize threats at scale,” Immersive’s Breen observed.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

. “Additionally, it’s important to have an incident response plan in place to swiftly detect and mitigate any security breaches to minimize the potential impact.” Email Address By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 19, 2024

Frequent Ransomware Target QNAP Discloses 3 Vulnerabilities Type of vulnerability: Improper authentication, injection vulnerability, SQL injection (SQLi). Ransomware gangs, notably Deadbolt, Checkmate, and Qlocker, actively targeted QNAP vulnerabilities in the past. The critical vulnerability, CVE-2024-21899 with a CVSS score of 9.8,

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

The FBI’s recommended fix for this solution is not a patch but rather the removal of any Barracuda ESG appliances from your business’s security infrastructure. August 24, 2023 Akira ransomware targeting Cisco, but MFA helps Akira ransomware groups have been exploiting Cisco’s virtual private network ( VPN ) tools.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A surge of critical vulnerabilities and zero-day exploits has made for a very busy week in IT security, affecting a range of tech giants like Atlassian, Cisco, Apple, Arm, Qualcomm and Microsoft. Among the issues in the last week, Android and Arm faced actively exploited vulnerabilities in GPU drivers.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

Pentesting involves vulnerability exploitation and post-exploitation actions – the idea is to conduct a real attack, like cybercriminals would do, except with an explicit authorization from the company in order to identify weaknesses and improve security defenses. Detecting Cobalt Strike Attacks.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Working Even Harder To End the Cybersecurity Talent Shortage. The term “skills gap” is all too familiar to those in the cybersecurity industry. Uncovering Ransomware Resurgence. As detailed in our August Threat Report , our Advanced Threat Research discovered that new ransomware samples had increased 118% from Q1 to Q2.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 25, 2021

Zero trust architecture is an emerging technology in cybersecurity that offers an alternative to the traditional castle-and-moat approach to security. ” Zero trust is a critical tool in the security defense arsenal, especially as more companies shift to a fully remote or hybrid work environment.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Unpatched ActiveMQ instances still vulnerable to CVE-2023-46604 (which enabled ransomware attacks last November ) will compile and execute the unknown binary and enable attackers to execute many different types of attacks. The fix: Deploy the Apache security upgrades available since November 2023.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 5, 2022

So while the MITRE tests give buyers more data than they might otherwise have, they’re still encouraged to do their own research and testing, just as vendors will use the results to improve security defenses. MITRE will soon follow with results for deception tools and security services. Detection only vendors.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In cybersecurity, steganography mainly consists of hiding malicious payloads or secret information inside seemingly harmless files such as images, PDFs, audios, videos, and many other document types. Also read: How to Prevent Ransomware Attacks: 20 Best Practices for 2022. What’s the Point of Digital Steganography?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 23, 2022

39% see malware and ransomware as their biggest risk. 68% of IT and security professionals plan to use zero trust for device security; 42% actually do. AI-based attacks: Bot-based attacks are getting better at mimicking user activity, more easily breaching the low-security defenses of many IoT devices.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

The Department of Health and Human Services has made progress in threat sharing efforts to support cybersecurity within its partnerships and the health care sector. But the Government Accountability Office found areas where HHS could better coordinate its efforts to support department information sharing and overall health IT security.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

These steps will work in most cases, but if you’ve been hit by ransomware, see our guides to ransomware decryption , removal and recovery. Combined with real-time protection and regular updates, these tools can dramatically improve your entire cybersecurity posture.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

The impersonated emails might contain annoying SPAM, but more often the phishing email will deliver more dangerous payloads that lead to stolen credentials, business email compromise (BEC) attacks, or ransomware attacks. Meanwhile, the company being impersonated has no financial incentive to change their behavior.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Additionally, some attackers will use DNS disruptions to conceal more dangerous cyberattacks such as data theft, ransomware preparations, or inserting backdoors into other resources. To prevent a DNS attack , organizations need to secure their DNS processes for both local and remote users.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 21, 2023

IT teams had their hands full trying to bring their newly remote workforces online, and some cybersecurity measures fell through the cracks. They have backdoors and are vulnerable because of weak credentials, weak network security, and weak access controls. Read more about best practices for securing remote access in your organization.

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