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Fortinet addresses 4 vulnerabilities in FortiWeb web application firewalls

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Security vendor Fortinet has addressed four vulnerabilities in FortiWeb web application firewalls, including a Remote Code Execution flaw. Fortinet has addressed four vulnerabilities in FortiWeb web application firewalls that were reported by Positive Technologies expert Andrey Medov. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, Fortinet).

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FBI Issues Private Industry Notification in Light of Florida Water Plant Hack

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. “Beyond its legitimate uses, TeamViewer allows cyber actors to exercise remote control over computer systems and drop files onto victim computers, making it functionally similar to Remote Access Trojans (RATs),” the FBI said.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

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Related: We’re in the midst of ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ Peel back the layers of just about any sophisticated, multi-staged network breach and you’ll invariably find memory hacking at the core. Here’s what I took away from our discussion: Transient hacks. This quickly gets intricately technical.

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Black Hat insights: Getting bombarded by multiple ransomware attacks has become commonplace

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And if an enterprise is under an active ransomware attack, or a series of attacks, that’s a pretty good indication several other gangs of hacking specialists came through earlier and paved the way. All three of these actors abused a firewall misconfiguration that was exposing a RDP server,” Shier told me. Remediation obstacles.

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US CISA and NSA publish guidance to secure Kubernetes deployments

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US CISA and NSA released new guidance that provides recommendations on how to harden Kubernetes deployments and minimize the risk of hack. Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating computer application deployment, scaling, and management. SecurityAffairs – hacking, LockBit 2.0).

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GUEST ESSAY: How stealth, persistence allowed Wipro attacker to plunder supply chain

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Related: Marriott suffers massive breach We now know, thanks to reporting from cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs, that the Wipro hack was a multi-month intrusion and likely the work of a nation-state backed threat actor. Unfortunately, at the moment there is no generic defense a vendor can sell a company to stop this type of threat.

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FBI’s alert warns about using Windows 7 and TeamViewer

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. “Beyond its legitimate uses, TeamViewer allows cyber actors to exercise remote control over computer systems and drop files onto victim computers, making it functionally similar to Remote Access Trojans (RATs),” states the FBI’s PIN alert. Audit network configurations and isolate computer systems that cannot be updated.

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