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STRRAT RAT spreads masquerading as ransomware

Security Affairs

Microsoft Security Intelligence researchers uncovered a malware campaign that is spreading a remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as STRRAT. This RAT is infamous for its ransomware-like behavior of appending the file name extension.crimson to files without actually encrypting them. Researchers noticed that STRRAT version 1.5

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Don't Encrypt Everything; Protect Intelligently

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Don't Encrypt Everything; Protect Intelligently. The volume of confidential documents created daily is, frankly, incalculable, and the volume of “everything” distributed across multiple data centers around the world is much, much more. Encrypting everything is time intensive because of explosive data growth.

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Cybersecurity Checklist for Political Campaigns

Lenny Zeltser

To understand the basis for these recommendations, read the documents mentioned at the end of the post. Attackers stole sensitive documents. Adversaries have routinely pursued sensitive campaign documents. Consider when to send attachments and when to share links to documents in cloud storage. campaigns from around 2016.

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10 Reasons to Trust Your Enterprise APIs

Cisco Security

This list was originally compiled as a standard awareness document for developers and web application security practitioners. It represents a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to APIs. This plan document is the perfect addition to an existing governance policy. Maps API1 and API5. Maps to API10.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

The Last Watchdog

Court documents depict in some detail how Thompson misused authenticated and authorized credentials to perform her attack. Creating, training and maintaining algorithms specific to API security requires a great deal of data science expertise,” Isbitski says. Traditional approaches just aren’t working or can’t scale.

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Thales Partners with Google Cloud to Build New, Generative-AI Powered Security Features

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

This concept benefits AI cybersecurity tools; the more security intelligence an ML tool has, the better it is at detecting and responding to threats. With ML, documents are organized into categories and subcategories, using named entity recognition to discover a range of sensitive information types.

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5 Stages of the Vulnerability Management Lifecycle

eSecurity Planet

This could include vulnerability scanners , configuration assessment tools, or security intelligence platforms. These documents will help you determine how to address potential vulnerabilities, and they set expectations with stakeholders for what your program will achieve.